Updates, season notes and coverage
What is going on right now
Short updates through the season and quieter notes in between, so the site stays current whether or not we are packing.
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Get Involved
Four ways to help
Money, a free Saturday, a business with something useful in the back, or an organization that serves kids. All four turn into baskets.
How We Work
It starts in January
Easter looks like one weekend from the outside. From the inside it is four months. Here is how the year actually runs.
Volunteering
How a Saturday turns into 670
No experience needed and kids can help. Here is what actually happens on a packing day.
How We Work
Why we do not hand out baskets ourselves
We build the baskets. Other organizations decide who gets one. Here is why that is deliberate.
Our Program
What actually goes in one of our baskets
More than candy. These go to kids in shelters and foster care, so we fill them with things a family might otherwise have to buy.
Season Updates
670 baskets. Here is where they went.
Final numbers from the 2026 season, and the eleven organizations that put the baskets in kids’ hands.
Recognition and support
"Easter item collection underway"
Grosse Pointe News
Coverage of the annual collection drive
“Spreading Joy One Basket at a Time”
St. Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center
Profile of the founder, April 2025
Grant support has come from:
Walmart Spark Good
Macomb County Board of Commissioners
Alongside a local church and a lot of individual donors.