by mitchalbom_webmaster | Mar 22, 2018 | News
Nearly two dozen local charities and programs will be awarded funding from donations received at last December’s Mitch Albom S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon at 2 pm Tuesday, March 27 at the Fisher Building (3011 West Grand Blvd., Detroit). Albom, founder of S.A.Y. Detroit,...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 3, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
There was a house. In Detroit. And a family. In Detroit. For decades, from the 1940’s on, they were happy together, a small, tidy home filled with loving memories. The kids grew up and moved away, and when the mother passed and the house was empty, the two adult...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Dec 6, 2016 | News
Mitch Albom’s S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon benefitting area charities will be held Thursday, Dec. 8 at the North Grand Court at the Somerset Collection in Troy. In its fifth year, the radiothon will be broadcast for 15 straight hours on WJR-AM(760), running from 6...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Mar 18, 2016 | News
Detroit, Michigan – March 17 – Representatives from 20 area charities gathered Thursday at the Fisher Building to accept checks totaling more than $1 million in donations raised at Mitch Albom’s fourth annual S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon last December. Albom, who founded...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Dec 10, 2015 | News
All-day radio for better days in Detroit! Broadcast live from The Somerset Collection in Troy, MI on December 10th, the fourth annual S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon surpassed all previous fundraising records to collect more than $1 million to help Detroit’s neediest...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Dec 12, 2014 | News
After fifteen consecutive hours on air and streaming live, the third annual S.A.Y. Detroit raised $814,210, more than doubling the previous year’s total. Click here for more info.
by Mitch Albom | Dec 4, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Why all the charity stuff?”Someone asked me that at an airport. He meant no harm. He just couldn’t understand why, as a sports writer, I would get so involved in other people’s problems.Why all the charity stuff? It’s a question I will...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Mar 27, 2014 | News
DETROIT, March 26 – More than a dozen Detroit charities were grateful recipients of more than $400,000 in donations distributed from Mitch Albom’s “S.A.Y. (Super All Year) Detroit Radiothon.” The monies were collected in a single 15-hour broadcast...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Mar 25, 2014 | News
DETROIT – Ten Detroit charities and their projects – ranging from homes for the homeless to after school music classes – will reap benefits from the funds raised last December by “Mitch Albom’s S.A.Y. (Super All Year) Detroit Radiothon.” Checks will be handed to...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Dec 10, 2013 | News
After 14 straight hours live on WJR and streaming video on the web, over 90 guests, more than 80 rewards and prizes, 3 homes signed over to needy working families, and one power outage, the second annual S.A.Y. Detroit radiothon was a success,...