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Top Corporate Sponsor for 2024
White Castle, Inc. presenting DAPCO with (1) of (3) checks during the annual roundup.

17th Annual Community Baby Shower in collaboration with Hope, Care & Beyond, Dearborn, MI (more photos to come)

Thank you to our many sponsors who made it possible for over 30 mothers had new baby and personal items, a sit down luncheon to enjoy and welcome their new baby into the world. (See the hand written notes to our sponsors.

16th Annual Community baby Shower 2022
Drive thru - Ypsilanti, Michigan
http://www.dapco.org/2022-16th-annual-drive-thru-community-baby-shower.html

WE ARE ON YOUTUBE! VIEW OUR 15TH COMMUNITY BABY SHOWER "MOMMIES ON THE MOVE" VIDEO BY LINKING HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrMlkoT7Wg
Link not working for you? Go to Youtube and search "DAPCO Community Baby Shower 2021"

NEWS: Coming soon - 16th Annual Community Baby Shower, Saturday, September 24th, 11 a.m. till 1 p.m. . And to kick off the reality of yet another CBS, United Way Emerging Philanthropists conducted a Baby Shower Drive for DAPCO baby pantry. (these are photos of the delivery and stocking of our pantry in Ypsilanti.

At the United Way headquarters in Washtenaw, The entire Community Baby Drive collected during the several weeks.

2020 12th Community Baby Shower "Mommies on the Move"
Held (2) days, Detroit on the 24th & Ypsilanti on the 31st.
To see photos, visit:
www.dapcophotos.com

We are gearing up for our 11th Annual Community Baby Shower 2019
Women United of Washtenaw County to the rescue. Thank you! The members of Women United held a recent baby drive for DAPCO to support our upcoming community baby shower that will be held October 26th. More details will be posted soon and photos from last years Community Baby Shower, entitled "A Special Place" will be featured on this page.

2019 "A Special Place" Community Baby Shower (see photos of the wonderful time we had)

2018 "A Special Place" Community Baby Shower

13th Annual Family Fun Day & Health Walk Fair 2017

Sponsors included: TCF Bank (Washtenaw County), Zingermans, Bank of Ann Arbor, SAMS CLUB (Washtenaw County), MAH Fitness and the University of Michigan Credit Union, Contributors were: Family Recovery Outreach, Ekklesia Fellowship Ministries, Pastor V. James, Bethel Deliverance Ministries, Holmes Security Services, Irene's School of Massage, A variety of volunteers and well wishers from the community. Thank you all for caring enough to come out and have a wonderful day for families.

United Way’s local Women’s Leadership Initiative has granted over $230,000 to nonprofit organizations that help women achieve their dreams of economic independence. Annually, grant funds are raised by the WLI through the Power of the Purse event.

Funding for Destiny and Purpose Community Outreach (DAPCO) allows for expansion of its Parent and Baby in Need program, which primarily services female head of households in Ypsilanti.

White Castle Eat In - Fundraiser

Community Collaboration is the Key!

Live United from United Way host a Baby Drive for our Annual Community Baby Shower each year. We are grateful for the partnership.

Our Executive Director, Towana Parker had the privilege of training youth in employment ethics preparation with Ekklesia Fellowship Ministries and the Covenant Pastors Fellowship. (below are some of the photos from the training. Thank you to United Way of Washtenaw County and their team from the Financial Stability initiative for coming to provide financial education and White Castle for allowing us to come, dine in for lunch and tour the inner workings of running a White Castle and speaking to the manager of the Carpenter Rd. & Packard location about the company expectations to work at White Castle, Inc.

Dress for Success

Dressed for the interview

Tour of White Castle with Manager

Touring and Learning about the inner workings of the company.

Mock Interviews as the Interviewer

Mock Interviewing as the applicant

Parent and Baby in Need program

Book Bag Give-A-Way to those who need school supplies. Thanks to the generous support of TJMaxx Carpenter Road in Ypsilanti for providing the school supplies and Office Depot, Canton for donating 50 book bags.

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A Special Place - 2017 Community Baby Shower

Sponsors of the 2017 Community Baby Shower "A Special Place" were Total Christian Television (TCT), Zingermans, Comerica Bank, Ekklesia Fellowship Ministries, Portia Mann, Family Recovery Ministries, Brenda Griffin, TJ Maxx, Babies R Us.

2022 "Additional Community Highlights"

Upper Left: $1,000 Presentation by representative of Je T’aime – Chapter 817

Upper right: Community Baby Drive hosted by Emerging Philanthropist from United Way of Washtenaw County (Some of the new and awesome baby items collected during the drive)

Right and lower right bottom: Internship Students from EMU serving DAPCO for 6 weeks.

To see fantastic photos of the 2016 "A Special Place Community Baby Shower, link here.