29/05/2026
Our friend Mittens for Detroit who we collect gloves and mittens for every late fall. Let’s help them out.
Looking for a summer volunteer activity that you can do whenever and wherever you like?
Mittens for Detroit has a great opportunity for those who like to sew and make a difference! Our Hands to Hearts Buddies project is gives us a way to engage you in helping to repurpose the way-too-many stretchy dollar store gloves that we receive every year. (We have more than 22,000 pairs of these stretchy, thin gloves in our office right now!)
While many of those pairs make it to be included in Bonus Boxes for the schools, the rest are inappropriate for our cold winters in Detroit. The bears will be sold on an Etsy site and the funds raised will be used to purchase new, warm, durable mittens and gloves for kids in Detroit this winter.
This charming repurposing of the gloves into small cuddly bears is our new summer (and beyond) volunteer activity. Read all about it in the image below. We are scheduling group volunteer activities at our office in August. Individuals can join us for Zoom sewing bees... or bears!
Very little experience is needed for this... and folks who don't sew can still help tremendously in the process! We'd love to have you join us. Got an idea of how you want to be part of the Hands to Hearts Buddies? Send us an email at [email protected]. Thanks! ~ Wendy, MFD Executive Director. Thank you to Mary Bajcz Scrap Happy who made the two bears who are featured in our flyer (as well as many more!) Watch this space for other featured makers!🥰
