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A CAN Summer For The (recipe) Books! |
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Featured Image: Khloe and her delicious creation during the lesson Chopped Junior at Brick's Summer Camp! | |
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We hope you all are having an AMAZING summer! We sure are over here at CAN. Our community centers have been bustling all summer long with happy campers, busy food programs, a revamped YouthWorks program, sustainability events, getting ready for the school year to start, and so much more. Read all about CAN's exciting summer below!
Plus: An exciting Back to School Drive update!
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Two Thumbs Up for CAN's 2023 Summer Camp! | | |
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This summer, CAN was able to provide an unforgettable camp experience across 4 locations free of charge thanks to your support! Campers enjoyed water days, barbecues, fun experiments, art activities, educational lessons, tons of cooking and eating, field trips, new friendships, games and sports, friendly competition, engaging visitors, new books, exploring nature....
The list goes on!
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Check out these 2023 Summer Camp highlights! | |
We celebrated the end of a great summer camp by embarking on a field trip with ALL 4 camp locations to Skatin' Station! A picture is worth a thousand words and the photo below is full of smiles! CAN campers has so much fun all together for this exciting adventure. Special thanks to our team at camp "Bryside" for planning the event! | |
Derrick's Trip to Tübingen | CAN Executive Director, Derrick Miller, along with Mayor Christopher Taylor and other Ann Arbor officials recently went on an exciting and educational trip to Tübingen, Germany! They learned how Ann Arbor's sister city tackles transportation, housing, and climate change. Both cities aim for housing growth, improved transportation, and climate neutrality by 2030. While learning from Tübingen's strategies and challenges, the visit highlighted differences in sustainability efforts, emphasized their shared goals, and will help strengthen community initiatives! | |  |
TED Talks recently came to Michigan for a 4-day climate conference! It included hundreds of participants attending more than 40 TED Talks, interviews, and performances, as well as breakout sessions on topics like regenerative agriculture and how to fund climate adaptation. Field trips included visits to electric vehicle and battery production lines, factories upcycling waste, and (you guessed it...) CAN! CAN's Bryant Community Center was honored to host visitors and share all about CAN's resilience hubs and our neighborhood decarbonization project in partnership with The City of Ann Arbor's Office of Sustainability & Innovations! | | |
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A HUGE thank you goes out to all of our staff and volunteers who helped us create countless fun memories, foster safe spaces, and prevent summer learning loss over the course of CAN's 6-week camp! As we say goodbye to our AmeriCorps Summer Associates this week, we are reminded of how grateful we are to them for their commitment to our communities! | |
An Essential Partnership Continues! | |
Back to School Drive Update! | |
Exciting News: There are only 43 backpacks left on CAN's Amazon Registry! | |
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Thank you SO MUCH to those who have contributed to or shared about our Back to School Drive!
Because of your generosity, the back-to-school season won't feel as stressful to CAN parents!
If you would like to contribute one of the last backpacks left on our list, click below!
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PO Box 130076
Ann Arbor, MI 48113
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