Featured Image: Brick Community Center's Director, Kayla Samuels, and ASP participants filling their plates at Brick's harvest party!

We're So Thankful For Each Other!

November at CAN has been full of community gatherings, delicious food, fun activities, oh... and gearing up to deliver over 1,000 holiday gifts next month! There is no doubt that this month has been busy, but it has been equally as fun! We love all the opportunities to get together whether it's at a harvest potluck, doing Fall-themed crafts at ASP, or shopping with families during Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor's Warm The Children! We are so grateful for each and every one of our partners, donors, and families. Check out all we've been able to accomplish together this past month!

One month left of CAN's Match!

Thank you to everyone who has helped us reach almost one third of our goal so far! Please consider helping us get even closer to ensure CAN families have a solid start to 2023!

YOUR DONATION X 2

=

DOUBLE THE IMPACT

Harvest Gatherings!

It would not be November at CAN without parties with the community to celebrate the season! Some of our sites had some holiday fun during Afterschool Program. Brick students decorated fabric napkins with puffy paint - a special craft they could take home and use for many holiday dinners to come! Other sites gathered together for delicious feasts - check out that ham at GBC's harvest potluck!

Food For a Feast

At each of our community centers, staff put together bags filled with side dishes like stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans, potatoes, and more as well as a $20 gift card to a local grocery store to purchase a turkey - or another main dish to complete their holiday meal! Thanks to the generous donors who helped us gather all these ingredients and gift cards, our families had what they needed to create a feast of their own!

A huge thank you goes out to Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor's Warm The Children for partnering with CAN again this year to provide vouchers to 175 of our students! Families shopped at JC Penney for items like winter coats, boots, pants, and shirts to ensure they have all the gear they need to stay warm this season! We always have such a blast shopping with families, too!

Another huge thank you goes out to Reinhart Realtors for partnering with CAN to provide winter coats for our families! We have already started to get these into the hands of those who need some extra warmth this season, and are on track to receive 130 coats! Wow!

Join us THIS SATURDAY at the Bryant Community Center for some local holiday shopping!

December 3rd 2-6pm

3 W Eden Ct. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Members of the Bryant community will be offering items from their small businesses as well as handmade arts and crafts for sale at CAN's first ever Holiday Pop-up Shop. Don't miss this opportunity to find some unique gifts and have fun this weekend!

Special Thanks!

Stony Creek United Methodist Church

We are so thankful for the continuous donations of food and hygiene products to our Brick Community Center food pantry!

Pioneer High School English Classes

Thank you so much for the donation of 8 bags of food plus the gift card and financial donation!

University Townhouses Cooperative

Your donations of 50 bags of food plus 8 gifts cards helped fill the harvest bags with side dishes for our families!

Second Baptist Church of Ann Arbor

Our students had a blast attending Black Panther! Thank you so much for the tickets!

Free in Deed

Thank you so much to Patricia Davis from Free in Deed for partnering with our Bryant Community Center to make an even bigger impact for our families this season!

Pumpkin Pies!

We are so grateful to Busch's for donating 40 pumpkin pies to our Brick Community Center harvest distribution as well as Carol Gramlich for 25 of them!

Support CAN's Mission!

Mail a donation to:

PO Box 130076

Ann Arbor, MI 48113

Or give when you shop:

Do you shop at Kroger?

Do you have a Kroger Plus card?

Take advantage of their Community Rewards program and donate to CAN when you use your Kroger Plus Card! Just login to your Kroger account, under "account summary", scroll down to Community Rewards. Then search for CAN by typing in our

organization number:

SJ915

Once CAN is enrolled, Kroger will donate to Community Action Network every time you use your

Kroger Plus card!

Buying gift cards this season?

Consider purchasing through www.raiseright.com

A percentage (2%-20%) of each purchase

goes to CAN with our code:

B7JKTSJ298XC

Doing some holiday shopping on Amazon?

smile.amazon.com/ch/38-2792610

Use this link and Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase directly to CAN!

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