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hen Bill Birndorf started
Higher Hopes! in 2014,
he had a dream of help-
ing those in need in Detroit. Little did
he know that his dream would grow
and blossom into a program that now
provides more than 200,000 pounds
of food to underserved families in
Detroit.
Higher Hopes! is once again get-
ting ready to pack up 1,000 complete
Thanksgiving meal kits — with every-
thing from the turkey to delicious
desserts — for families with children
enrolled in the Early Head Start Child
Care Partnership Programs in Detroit.
Families are chosen on a financial
need basis, and those who qualify will
receive a complete meal kit with all
the supplies needed to make a deli-
cious Thanksgiving meal to feed 12-15
people.
But the donations don’t stop there!
Higher Hopes!, with the help of many
companies big and small, raised
enough money in 2015 that they
partnered with Gleaners and tapped
into their Summer Mobile Pantry
initiative, adding the distribution of
1,700, 35-pound meal kits containing
protein, fruit, vegetables, grains, juice
and more to families for kids on sum-
mer break.
For the Thanksgiving program,
Gleaners Community Food Bank has
once again agreed to store all food
donations, handle delivery logistics

and allow Higher Hopes! to use its
facility for packing meal kits.
Pack-Up Day will be held at
Gleaners on Saturday, Nov. 19, at its
Warren location, 24162 Mound Road,
and Distribution Day will take place
with the use of Gleaners four semi-
tractor trailers on Monday, Nov. 21,
at four Head Start sites in the city of
Detroit. More than 350 volunteers will
be needed, and the public is welcome
to sign up.
The new 2016 Higher Hopes! web-
site has a button for donations directly
through PayPal using credit or debit
cards. Monetary donations can also be
made via checks made out to Higher
Hopes! and sent to 8898 Commerce
Road, Suite 5C Commerce, MI 48382.
Higher Hopes! is a registered 501(c)
(3) started by Bill Birndorf, owner of
Commerce-based Apple Marketing
Company, now in its 32nd year.
Birndorf came up with the idea the
night of Thanksgiving 2013 after see-
ing a news story about people in the
city struggling to buy food for the
holidays.
“This project has really blossomed
into a wonderful show of support of
love for those in need at Thanksgiving
and in the summer,” Birndorf says.
For more information about Higher
Hopes! or to make food or monetary
donations, call (248) 360-9300, email
volunteer@higherhopesdetroit.org or
visit www.higherhopesdetroit.org.

Cathy & James Deutchman

Stanley & Judith Frankel Family Foundation

Ed Levy, Jr. and Linda Dresner
Myrna and Spencer Partrich

Charlene Handleman

Marjorie & Maxwell Jospey Foundation

Donna & Michael Maddin

A volunteer crew at a distribution center last year

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