Tag Archives: giving to charity

Still a rip-off, the Color Run returns to Ypsi

By Mark | May 9, 2013

In preparation for this weekend’s big Color Run that will be wreaking havoc in Ypsi, I thought that I’d repost what I’d written about the event last year, just as the “charity” event was wrapping up. Let me start out by saying that I like that the Color Run took place in Ypsi this morning. […]

Posted in Detroit, Other, Rants, Ypsilanti | Also tagged charity, Color Me Rad, Color Run, neon, raves, running, scams, techno | 39 Comments

Buy a Beer for Make A Wish

By Mark | May 27, 2011

For the last few years, my friends Tom and Trey have been taking part in the Make A Wish foundation’s annual Wish-A-Mile (WAM) bicycle tour fundraiser. They collect pledges, peddle their bikes some 300 miles, and then hand the cash over to the folks at the Make A Wish Foundation, so that they can can […]

Posted in Michigan, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Make a Wish Foundation, Tom Lennon, Trey Allen, WAM, Wish-A-Mile Bicycle Tour | 6 Comments

Please consider a gift to Detroit’s Freedom House

By Mark | April 13, 2011

I don’t usually grab posts wholesale from other sites and reprint them here, but I just read this on my friend Pete’s site and thought that it deserved to reach a wider audience. Freedom House, a small former convent located just under the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit has been providing food, shelter, and support for […]

Posted in Detroit | Also tagged Ambassador Bridge, American dream, aslyum, Cameroon, Degorah Drennan, Freedom House, Libya, Pete Larson, refugee, Russia, Rwanda, torture | 2 Comments

On allowances and charitable giving

By Mark | November 12, 2009

I don’t pass parenting tips along all that often. It’s rare that I come across an idea that’s so unambiguously phenomenal that I want to share it. I picked something up from some friends recently, however, that I feel compelled to mention… They give their daughter an allowance, with the understanding that some percentage of […]