We typically organize a few events each quarter in the Detroit area for our members to volunteer. These events range from fundraising, to delivering fresh food, to working at local food banks and soup kitchens. Events that are not full will be closed 7 days before they take place.
Upcoming Detroit Events
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Past Detroit Events
May 31st, 2026 – Volunteers Celebration and New Member Recruit
Time: 12:00-5:00PM
Location: Maybury State Park, Northville, MI 48167
Description: The Food Lounge hosted a community picnic to thank its volunteers and welcome potential new members. Attendees enjoyed food, games, and networking while learning about volunteer opportunities, leadership roles, and the organization’s ongoing efforts to address food insecurity throughout Southeast Michigan.
May 22nd-23rd, 2026 – Gardening Project
Time: 6:00PM-8:00PM
Location: Troy City Farm, Troy, MI 48084
Description: The Food Lounge Detroit volunteers gathered at Troy Farm to plant seeds and grow vegetables for donation to local food banks. Participants helped prepare garden beds, plant crops, and maintain the garden, supporting efforts to provide fresh produce to families in need.
May 17th, 2026 – Spring Seeding Sale Fundraiser
Time: 10:00AM-12:00PM
Location: Boulan Park Parking Lot, Troy, MI 48084
Description: The Food Lounge organized a spring seedling fundraiser featuring a variety of locally grown vegetable and herb plants. Community members supported the fundraiser while preparing their home gardens for the growing season, helping raise funds for local food security and outreach programs.
April 2nd, 2026 – Open Door Ministries Volunteering
Time: 4:00-7:00PM
Location: 4301 South Lilley Road Canton, MI 48188
Description: Volunteers help pack and sort food into carts and deliver them to families in need.
Febuary 22nd, 2026 – Lunar New Year Eastern Market Fundraising
Time: 11:00AM-3:00PM
Location: 1445 Adelaide St., Detroit, MI 48207
Description: Held at Eastern Market, this Lunar New Year fundraiser featured homemade cultural foods, beverages, and festive accessories prepared by student volunteers. The event successfully raised over $2,000 to support The Food Lounge Michigan’s efforts to combat food insecurity and expand community outreach programs in Michigan.
January 24th, 2026 – Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:15AM-3:30PM
Location: 20 E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: The Food Lounge Detroit volunteers spent the day assisting at a local food pantry in Pontiac. Volunteers helped clients select groceries, organized food supplies, and loaded boxes into vehicles for distribution. The event provided direct support to community members while promoting service, teamwork, and food security awareness.
January 19th, 2026 – Color a Smile Volunteering
Time: 1:00-3:00PM
Location: 3179 Livernois Rd, Troy, MI 48083
Description: A volunteer opportunity for everyone, volunteers color coloring pages and invite others to join. The coloring pages are mailed to senior citizens, troops overseas, hospitals, or anyone in need of a smile.
November 29th, 2025 – Food Gatherers Volunteering
Time: 9:00-11:00AM
Location: 1 Carrot Way, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Description: In general, volunteers will typically sort rescued foods (such as produce), repackage bulk foods, or get boxes with pre-selected items packed for distribution.
November 22nd, 2025 – Annual Turkey Drive
Time: 2:00-4:00PM
Location: Oakland Hope, Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: The Food Lounge Detroit partnered with Oakland Hope to distribute Thanksgiving turkeys to families in need. Volunteers helped organize donations and support distribution efforts, providing holiday meals to local households while strengthening community connections.
November 24th, 2025 – Harvest for the Holiday Season
Time: 2:00-4:00PM
Location: 9153 Major Road, Fenton, MI 48430
Description: The Food Lounge Detroit volunteered at Forgotten Harvest Farm in Fenton, helping harvest fresh produce for local food assistance programs. Volunteers worked together to support food recovery efforts and increase access to nutritious food for communities in need.
August 24th, 2025 – School Supply Drive
Time: By EOD
Location: please email thefoodloungedetroit@gmail.com for drop off location details
Description: The Food Lounge Detroit hosted a school supply drive to collect essential educational materials for local students. Community members donated school supplies that were distributed to families in need, helping students begin the academic year equipped and ready to learn.
August 14th, 2025 – Open Door Food Ministries
Time: 5:00-7:00PM
Location: 4301 South Lilley Road Canton, MI 48188
Description: Volunteers will help pack carts of food and deliver them to families in need.
July 5th, 2025 – Food Gatherers Volunteering
Time: 1:00-3:00PM
Location: 1 Carrot Way, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Description: The volunteers sorted through produce, rescuing hundreds of pounds of carrots.
June 19th, 2025 – Sterling Heights Garden Volunteering
Time: 7:30-8:30PM
Location: 2775 15 Mile Rd, Sterling Heights, MI 48310
Description: The volunteers went to our new Sterling Heights Garden to help with the initial setup. They helped install the self watering system, as well as watered the garden plot.
June 7th, 2025 – Chinese School of Greater Detroit Fundraiser
Time: 10:00-2:00PM
Location: 1300 Derby Rd, Birmingham, MI 48009
Description: Volunteers helped to make food like lamb skewers, onigiri, drinks and various desserts to sell at the Chinese School of Greater Detroit annual food sale. Our volunteers manned a busy booth and made a total of $927.
May 4th, 2025 – Plant Fundraiser
Description: The volunteers at The Food Lounge Detroit dedicated their time to grow and sell plants to fundraise money.
April 20th, 2025 – Amy’s Rays of Sunshine
Description: Our members at The Food Lounge Detroit dedicated their time and support in hand-drawing feel-better cards for Amy’s Rays of Sunshine gives young adult patients who are starting their bone marrow transplant a box of 90 inspirational and caring messages
March 29th, 2025 – Salvation Army Book Donation
Description: Volunteers donated six boxes, totaling over 460 books of various kinds, to the Salvation Army Family Store and Donation Center in Southfield.
Feburary 2025 – GotSneakers
Description: Volunteers donated clean, used shoes to the GotSneakers organization to help them recycle athletic shoes and repurpose the material and reduce waste.
January 19th, 2025 (Friday) – Gleaners Kroger Food Drive
Time: 10:00AM – 12:00PM
Description: Volunteers under The Food Lounge Detroit partnered with Gleaners to raise money and food donations for families in need. In total, they sent gathered more than 100 dollars and 3 whole grocery carts full of food.
January 4th, 2025 (Friday) – Oakland HOPE Food Pantry
Time: 10:20AM – 3:20AM
Description: The volunteers under The Food Lounge Detroit partnered with The Oakland Hope Center to grocery shop for families in need. In total, they sent out 203 grocery carts full of food.
November 27th, 2024 (Wednesay) – Oakland HOPE Food Pantry
Time: 10:20AM – 3:20AM
Description: The volunteers under The Food Lounge Detroit partnered with The Oakland Hope Center to grocery shop for families in need. In total, they sent out 274 grocery carts full of food.
November 26th, 2024 (Tuesday) – Family Victory Fellowship Church
Time: 8:00AM – 9:00AM
Description: Volunteers helped donate and distribute 50 turkeys to enlighten the Thanksgiving to families all over Michigan, in hopes of bringing them some holiday spirit.
September 21th, 2024 (Saturday) – Detroit Meihua Fundraising
Time: 11:00PM – 2:00PM
Description: Volunteers helped to make food like croissants, taiwanese rice, and cold noodles to sell at the Meihua Chinese Event. Our volunteers manned a booth on a hot day and made a total of $415.
September 14th, 2024 (Saturday) – Food Gatherers
Time: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Location: 1 Carrot Way, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Description: Volunteers will sort through crates of food that will eventually be distributed to people in need.
August 26th, 2024 (Monday) – Oakland Hope School Supply Drive
Description: The volunteers helped gather and organize the school supplies donated for Oakland Hope’s clients. They helped unload the boxes to the Oaklang Hope facility.
August 25th, 2024 (Sunday) – School Supply Fundraising
Description: The volunteers helped make homemade baked goods. These goods were sold, raising $174 all used to support the back-to-school supply drive.
August 15th, 2024 (Thursday) – Open Door Ministries
Time: 4:00PM – 6:00PM
Description: The volunteers under The Food Lounge Detroit volunteered with Open Door Food Ministry, helping pack carts of food and deliver them to more than 200 families.
July 18th, 2024 (Thursday) – Open Door Ministries
Time: 4:00PM – 6:00PM
Description: the volunteers under The Food Lounge Detroit volunteered with Open Door Food Ministry and helped pack 200 carts worth of food and deliver them to families in need.
July 15th, 2024 (Monday) – Food Gatherers
Time: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Description: Both students and parents helped sort 2,200 pounds of dairy, 505 pounds of produce, and also helped the Food Gatherers clear many boxes of food which needed to be composted.
July 6th, 2024 (Saturday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
June 15th, 2024 (Saturday) – Food Gatherers Warehouse Volunteering
Description: Volunteers will sort and process foods that will eventually be distributed to other organizations that will serve the food to people in need. 10 Volunteers needed.
April 27th, 2024 (Saturday) – Maybury Park Fundraising
Time: 9:00AM – 12:00PM
Location: 49601 Eight Mile Road, Northville MI
Description: The Food Lounge Detroit raised $300 with the help of their volunteers by selling a multitude of plants and snacks at the Maybury Park.
March-May (2024) – Amy’s Rays of Sunshine
Description: Our members at The Food Lounge Detroit dedicated their time and support in hand-drawing feel-better cards for Amy’s Rays of Sunshine gives young adult patients who are starting their bone marrow transplant a box of 90 inspirational and caring messages
March 29st, 2024 (Friday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
March 22nd, 2024 (Friday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
March 21st, 2024 (Thursday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
March 2nd, 2024 (Saturday) – HOPE Center Donations
Time: 11:00AM – 2:00PM
Location: 249 Baldwin Ave, Pontiac, MI 48342
Description: Volunteers helped pack care packages consisting of laundry detergent, face wash, body wash, and sunscreen.
January 2nd, 2024 (Tuesday) – Food Gatherers
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: 1 Carrot Way, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Description: Volunteers sort through food that will eventually be sent to different food pantries that will be passed onto the people in need of food.
November 25th, 2023 (Saturday) – Cleaning Leaves in Homeless Shelter
Time: 5 Hours
Description: Volunteers cleaned up leaves and the inside of a homeless shelter.
November 18th, 2023 (Saturday) – Capuchin Soup Kitchen
Time: 10:30AM – 1:15PM
Location: 4390 Conner Detroit, MI 48215
Description: Volunteers will be servicing the local community during lunch service: serving meals on trays for die-in guests, helping with kitchen prep, and cleanup.
November 11, 2023 (Saturday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
September 28th, 2023 (Thursday) – Open Door Ministries
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
August 4, 2023 (Friday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
June 27, 2023 (Tuesday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
June 21, 2023 (Wednesday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
June 15, 2023 (Thursday) – Oakland Hope Food Pantry Volunteering
Time: 10:00AM – 3:30PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into clients’ trunks.
June 10, 2023 (Saturday) – Derby Chinese Market Fundraising
Time: 10:00AM – 2PM
Location: 1300 Derby Road, Birmingham, MI 48009
Description: Volunteers are needed to assist The Food Lounge at their booth selling Chinese delicacies at the Derby Chinese School market.
May 20, 2023 (Saturday) – AAPI Heritage Market Fundraising
Time: 10:30AM – 2PM
Location: 32585 Concord Dr., Madison Heights
Description: Volunteers are needed to assist The Food Lounge at their booth selling delicacies at the AAPI market to fundraise.
May 13, 2023 (Saturday) – Moonlight Bootlegger 5k Race
Description: Assist with the Moonlight Bootlegger 5k racing event. They helped with the race registration and handed out water on the course to around 500 runners.
April 21, 2023 (Friday) – Warehouse Volunteering with the Food gatherers
Time: 9AM – 12PM
Location: 21405 Trolley Industrial Drive, Taylor, MI 48180
Description: Volunteers are needed to assist with folding and/or stapling an informational postcard to a folded bag that will be delivered to homes in our service area for collecting the donations. This position is a sitting job. Volunteers must be at least 14 years old
April 21, 2023 (Friday) – Warehouse Volunteering with the Food gatherers
Time: 10AM – 4PM
Location: 20E. Walton Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48340
Description: Volunteers will shop for pantry clients and load boxes of food into client’s trunks. Lunch will be provided by the organization.
March 27, 2023 (Monday) – Warehouse Volunteering with the Food gatherers
Time: 1PM – 3PM
Location: 1 Carrot way, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Description: Volunteers are needed to Inspect and sort food in the warehouse.
February 20, 2023 (Monday) – Mercado Food Hub
Location: 2826 Bagley Street, Detroit, MI
Time: 9AM – 1:30PM
Group Size: 10 volunteers per shift
January 28, 2023 (Saturday) – Gift Wrapping
Time: 2PM – 4PM
Location: 1905 N Canton Center Rd Canton, Michigan 48187
Description: Friendly volunteers are needed to inform customers about the food collection, assist with collecting donated food and funds, and thank the donors.
January 22, 2023 (Sunday) – Gift Wrapping
Time: 2PM – 4PM
Location: 2105 South Blvd W., Troy, MI
Description: Friendly volunteers are needed to inform customers about the food collection, assist with collecting donated food and funds, and thank the donors.
December 23, 2022 (Saturday) – Gift Wrapping
We will be wrapping various presents that people at the mall buy as Christmas presents.
Time: 1PM – 3:30PM
Location: 100 Briarwood Cir, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
December 17, 2022 (Saturday) – Gift Wrapping
We will be wrapping various presents that people at the mall buy as Christmas presents.
Time: 2PM – 5PM
Location: 100 Briarwood Cir, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
November 23, 2022 (Wednesday) – South Campus Distribution Center
Location: 21405 Trolley Industrial Drive, Taylor, MI 48180
Time: 1:30PM – 4PM
Group Size: 6 volunteers
