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Thank You To our 2024 Donors and Sponsors!

Thank you to these amazing donors and sponsors from 2024! Each and every gift makes a difference in the lives of our youth. Check out this amazing community support! $10,000+ Petoskey Harbor Springs Area Community FoundationPetoskey Public Schools $5,000-$9,999 Petersen, Kathy and ToddLongworth, ReginaldBaiardi Family FoundationCharlevoix County Community FoundationDeVos Family

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Grateful

Last Friday, while volunteering, a 7th-grade boy saw the pile of blankets and asked if he could take one. He chose one for himself. He then asked if he could have another for his sister and then asked for his dad. He was pretty talkative, so I complimented him on

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Meet Samantha

Meet Samantha – one of our Northmen Dens success stories because of you, your donation provided weekend food for herself and her family. She visited the MS and HS Northmen Dens weekly since middle school. She graduated this June, 2021. She loved the food, the brand-name shampoos, deodorant, Tide detergent,

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Student Hunger Doesn’t Stop with Summer Break

Our Teens Are Hungry  Nine million children in the U.S. are living with hunger. That’s 1 in 8 young people. Hunger is a serious problem in this country, and although research has shown that households that have older kids experience higher rates of food insecurity than households with younger children,

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2022 Annual Report

At Northmen Den Youth Services, we’re fortunate to receive funding, services, and additional support from our amazing network of individual donors and volunteers, as well as other agencies and foundations. We know that our programming would not be possible without this community support, and we do our very best to

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It’s Smoothie Summer – Let’s Get Nutritious!

It’s Smoothie Summer – Let’s Get Nutritious! June 21 is National Smoothie Day. Let’s look at easy, inexpensive smoothie recipes we can use to celebrate AND add nutrition into our summer diets! In today’s fast-paced world, it’s essential to find quick and nutritious solutions to fuel our bodies. At Northmen

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