Help Someone Start Again.

Your donation provides paid work, meals, and mentorship for Detroiters rebuilding their lives.

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Why Donating Matters

When you give to Better Way Detroit, you’re not funding handouts, you’re funding opportunity. Every donation directly supports paid, supervised work for individuals experiencing homelessness. Your generosity covers the meals, transportation, and mentorship that make it possible for someone to show up, work with dignity, and take the next step toward independence.

How Your Donation Helps

We keep things simple: your gift goes straight to the work. Participants are paid daily for their efforts at partner worksites across Detroit, cleaning parks, sorting donations, and serving the community. It’s a system that restores purpose through work, and it’s powered entirely by people like you.

Every Dollar Creates Opportunity

For Donations via PayPal:

3% Cover the Fee

Make a secure donation via PayPal.

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In-Kind Donations

We’re always in need of bottled water, snacks, work gloves, grocery cards, and fuel cards. Vehicle donations are also welcome for participants needing transportation to new jobs.

Use the form below to coordinate your donation.

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Mail a Check

Please make checks payable to:
Better Way Detroit

Send to:
P.O. Box 2923, Detroit, MI 48202

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Thank you for believing in the dignity of work.

Better Way Detroit is a secular 501c3 organization. Donations to Better Way Detroit are tax deductible.