OUR PARTNERS
Joining hands with fellow community leaders.
Our Partners
Partners of The War Memorial are itemized below in alphabetical order.
The Family Center of Grosse Pointe & Harper Woods
The Family Center offers free programs and resources from local experts on a wide range of topics aimed at building strong families and helping parents raise children who will become competent, caring, and responsible community members. Read The Family Center’s community partner spotlight piece.
Grosse Pointe Artists Association
Grosse Pointe Artists Association is a resource and advocate for individuals and organizations who want to harness the power of art to enrich lives.
The Association provides:
Art classes featuring respected artists who share their experience and help fulfill their students’ desire to find new and better ways to express themselves.
Juried exhibitions, offering artists from across the country opportunities to share their work and dialogue with other artists.
Free programming for senior citizens, students in area high schools and veterans, their families and friends.
Lectures about metro-Detroiters whose architecture, designs and art are recognized for their positive effects on everyday life.
Read The Association’s community partner spotlight piece.
Grosse Pointe Garden Center, Inc.
The Grosse Pointe Garden Center, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1950 to provide education, beautification, horticulture, and conservation to our community. The Garden Center provides lectures, seminars, and workshops by noted speakers on current topics. Our Annual Garden Tour offers beautiful private gardens for public display. The Garden Center manages and maintains the gardens on the lakeside of the War Memorial. The Trial Gardens, commissioned in 1952, were designed by landscape architect Eleanor Roche around a historic 18th-century millstone donated to the War Memorial. The gardens evolved from being test gardens for growers’ new annuals and bulbs into a judged competition with local garden clubs designing their assigned plots based on an annual theme. Four inner plots are planted and maintained by the Herb Society of America, Grosse Pointe Unit. The Veterans Garden was developed by volunteer Master Gardeners recruited by the Garden Center in 2009. This project refurbished and redesigned the former tiered Hillside Garden into a tribute garden honoring our veterans and providing a serene place of reflection and remembrance for their families. The Veterans Garden was officially dedicated on Veterans Day 2012. Read The Center’s community partner spotlight piece.
Grosse Pointe Veterans Club
The Grosse Pointe War Memorial's Veterans Club is an on-going community organization, to support, educate and advocate for our local veterans. The Veterans Club consists of former and active-duty servicemen and women who have joined together to honor the traditions of the US Armed Forces, and to support the patriotic mission of military service organizations. Membership is open to any service branch of honorably discharged veterans or active-duty personnel who live within 30-miles of the War Memorial. They meet at The War Memorial the second Thursday of each month in the evening. Join them at a meeting!
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was established in New York City in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization. The local Grosse Pointes & Harper Woods branch was chartered in 2015 and has been hosted at The War Memorial since its inception. The NAACP envisions an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination. Learn about membership and monthly meetings to benefit your local community and help answer the call for equality.
Food Rescue Detroit
Food Rescue’s motto is simple – fill plates. Not landfills. Local volunteers pick up excess healthy food from local food donors and deliver it directly to local social service agencies that feed the food insecure. Some Food Rescue receiving partners include Motor City Mitten Mission, Peace Lutheran Food Pantry, and Everybody Eatz.
Up to 40% of the U.S. food supply is wasted, with millions of pounds of excess food ending up in landfills. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates food waste at 549 pounds of food waste per person sent for disposal in 2021. To volunteer to pick up food for Food Rescue Detroit from places like The War Memorial, visit foodrescue.us.
Our Community contributors and collaborators with website links
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)
Detroit Public Television (DPTV)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO)
Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce
Kevin’s Song-Suicide Prevention
The Metropolitan Opera — New York City
Oakland University Center for Civic Engagement
Resident Community contributors and collaborators
Duplicate Bridge: Resident Group
A War Memorial staple for decades, Duplicate Bridge meets on Mondays from noon to 4pm. Contact Tony Faint at (760) 415-7313.
Lakeshore Optimist Club of Grosse Pointe
We have served Metro Detroit east side communities for over 30 years as part of Optimist International. Our members come from all over the Metro area. Optimist International is a worldwide volunteer organization made up of more than 2,500 local Clubs whose Members work to make the future brighter by Bringing Out the Best in Kids, in their communities, and in themselves.
Men's Club of Grosse Pointe
The Men's Club of Grosse Pointe provide festivities, fun and fellowship for its members through social, educational and peer group association in its recreational and social activities. Some sponsored sub-clubs include bowling, golf, and tennis, pool and billiards, bridge, choral group, Florida snow birds, investment seminars and more.
Grosse Pointe Symphony Orchestra
The Grosse Pointe Symphony Orchestra is a community orchestra dedicated to providing live, classical symphonic music to the community while providing an opportunity for local professionals and accomplished amateurs to perform the classics. Its mission is to maintain a symphony orchestra in the Grosse Pointes as a community project; offer each year a full season of symphonic music with outstanding soloists; provide non-professional and professional musicians the opportunity to perform in a community orchestra of high quality; and promote music appreciation in people of all ages.
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