by Laurie Sternberg | Dec 14, 2015 | Beds, Client Profiles, Giving Tuesday, Spotlight
Pilar has two children and very little furniture. Up until coming to Friends In Deed, Pilar, Madyson (2) and Carter (1) were sharing a blow-up mattress. With help from her friends at Friends In Deed, Pilar plans to surprise her two children with a crib, twin bed,...
by Laurie Sternberg | Dec 11, 2015 | Client Profiles, Emergency Assistance
Rhonda is a para-educator in the Ypsilanti Community School District and attending college to become a social worker. While she recently obtained a car, she wasn’t quite able to afford the car insurance to actually use it. Her defeated expression caught the...
by Laurie Sternberg | Dec 4, 2015 | Client Profiles, Emergency Assistance
Linda was in a fix. She had a job delivering pizzas when her car disappeared from where it was parked one day. There was no sign by where she had left it, which meant she didn’t know what happened to it. Was it stolen? “I was stuck in Ann Arbor. This never...
by Laurie Sternberg | Dec 3, 2015 | Donors, FID Fundraisers, Giving Tuesday, Spotlight, Thankfulness Thursday
We had 73 beds donated on Giving Tuesday!! This was about a 40% increase in number from last year. As you know, Van Winkle Mattress generously offered to donate one bed for every five beds donated on Giving Tuesday. When we add these 15 beds (Ken Fil rounded up) to...
by Laurie Sternberg | Nov 24, 2015 | Community Needs, FID Fundraisers, Giving Tuesday, Spotlight
Ken Fil, the owner of Van Winkle Mattress, is one of Friends In Deed’s most generous contributors. Not only does Ken give Friends In Deed wholesale pricing on beds, he gives of his time and money. And that’s not all! In honor of our annual Holiday Bed & Crib...
