Oakland County
Arts, Beats, & Eats Gives Record Amount to Local Charities
Arts, Beats, & Eats donates file quantity to native charities
(Crystal A. Proxmire, October 17, 2025)
Royal Oak, MI – Arts, Beats, & Eats has been bringing folks collectively to have a good time tradition and group for 28 years, attracting greater than 300,000 guests to Downtown Royal Oak this yr. Though the competition is a well known, main occasion, many might not understand that it additionally raises cash for native charities.
On Tuesday, representatives from greater than 30 organizations gathered at Flagstar Financial institution’s regional headquarters in Troy to have a good time the occasion’s success and obtain their checks. Greater than $400,000 was donated this yr – a file for the occasion!
Organizer Jon Witz acknowledged a number of sponsors, together with Michigan Lottery, Flagstar Financial institution and Kroger, telling the packed viewers that “these outcomes have been made doable by the collective vitality of our group, from the guests who attended, to our companions, nonprofits, volunteers and company who proceed to make this occasion so impactful.”
Oakland County Government Dave Coulter and County Fee Chairman Dave Woodward have been readily available to assist current checks, with particular consideration given to 2 charities of nice significance to them. Coulter acknowledged the FernCare Free Clinic, which supplies free well being care to uninsured sufferers. And Woodward praised the work being accomplished by Transportation Riders United, which advocates for public transportation within the area.
Different recipients included:
- Youngsters’s Middle of Wayne Co.
- Youngsters’s Surprise Community
- Cots
- Detroit Public Theater
- Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
- Dutton Farm
- Forgotten harvest
- Lighthouse MI
- Metro Detroit Youth Golf equipment
- Theater makers
- The rainbow connection
- Volunteers of America Michigan
- Nearly house animal rescue
- American Legion Publish 253 Frank Wendland Publish
- Berkley Bears Soccer Boosters
- BuildOn Worldwide Academy
- Clawson athletic boosters
- Clawson Chamber of Commerce
- Daniziah T Crawford Basis
- Detroit Curler Derby
- Ferndale Colleges Wonderful Arts Boosters
- Griffins Excessive Faculty Hockey Boosters Inc.
- Muscular Dystrophy Affiliation
- Ray & Phyllis Basis
- ReLeaf Michigan, Inc.
- ROHS mannequin VN
- Royal Oak Soccer Group, Inc.
- Royal Oak Excessive Faculty cheer
- Royal Oak Excessive Faculty PTSA-SANP
- St. Paul Lutheran Church and Faculty
- Group Comfortable Ft
- KunstLabJ
- Detroit Faculty of Rock & Pop / Dwell The Music Basis
- Michigan Science Middle
- Michigan Taiwanese American Group
- Mosaic Youth Theater
- Motor Metropolis Avenue Dance Academy
- Motown Museum
- Donations to Open arms pantry
- ABE on the fifth Royal Oak Civic Basis occasion
- American Most cancers Society
- American Legion Publish 253 Frank Wendland Publish
- Autism Alliance
- BHW Basis
- Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
- Fern care
- Gilda’s membership
- Judson Middle
- Lighthouse MI
- Make a want
- Metro Detroit Youth Golf equipment (Royal Oak Campus)
- Metro Detroit Youth Golf equipment (Vacation Baskets)
- Motown Historic Museum
- Oakland Colleges PTA
- Broadcast on 7
- Royal Oak Athletic Boosters
- Royal Oak Civic Basis
- Royal Oak Fireplace Division Charities
- Royal Oak First United Methodist Church
- Royal Oak Excessive Faculty Titans soccer
- Royal Oak Historic Society
- Royal Oak Native 431
- Royal Oak Peer-to-Peer Packages
- Royal Oak Colleges
- Royal Oak Colleges athletic boosters
- Royal Oak Symphony
- Royal Oak Girls’s Membership
- Royal Oak Youth Help
- Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Youth Council
- South Oakland Residents for the Homeless
- Theater makers
- Sunflowers Christian Kindergarten
- Take one
- Tiger Lily
- Transportation Riders United
- United Method for Southeast Michigan
Native musician Maggie McCabe additionally attended the celebration and performed music for the bulletins.
Be taught extra about this annual Labor Day Weekend custom at https://artsbeatseats.com/
