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Panera Family Fun Day
Saturday, February 13
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Panera Bread, Rochester Hills

Children can participate in educational crafts and reading activities while parents learn about United Way's Early Learning Communities program and how to best prepare children for school. This event is open to all ages.

Live United With Panera Bread
Saturday, Feburary 20
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Panera Bread, Auburn Hills

No such thing as a free lunch? Sure there is (and a free breakfast too!) if you volunteer with Panera's Impact Your Neighborhood program.

Press conference announcing the launch of the Southeastern Michigan Fight Mortgage Foreclosure Web Portal
Friday, February 26, 2010
9:00 am - 10:00 am
United Way for Southeastern Michigan

The foreclosure epidemic has hit southeastern Michigan particularly hard. The good news is, as a result of a collaborative approach, residents now have a trusted, easy way to access critical foreclosure prevention services.

BoardWALK: Building an Effective Board
Friday, March 5, 2010
9:00 am - Noon

Understand how to evaluate, recruit and train your board to be effective, productive and self-renewing.

Live United With Panera Bread
Saturday, March 6
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Panera Bread, Dearborn Heights

No such thing as a free lunch? Sure there is (and a free breakfast too!) if you volunteer with Panera's Impact Your Neighborhood program.

Panera Family Fun Day
Saturday, March 13
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Panera Bread, Southgate

Children can participate in educational crafts and reading activities while parents learn about United Way's Early Learning Communities program and how to best prepare children for school. This event is open to all ages.

Help feed people in need
Join United Way in providing immediate relief to metro Detroit's growing hunger crisis, as well as creating long-term changes to improve the food delivery system as a whole so that it can best meet this growing crisis.

Help end hunger in metro Detroit now
Start a One Can-a-Week food collection program in your neighborhood and help your local food pantry feed metro Detroit's hunger.

Make sure no child goes hungry
School-based nutrition programs go a long way to provide nutritious meals to kids, yet many can’t access these meals. However, two bills were recently introduced in Congress that would ensure that fewer children go hungry. These bills establish universal breakfast in the classroom for schools with high numbers of eligible children and allow eligible organizations to provide out-of-school meals to children year-round.