Hard Hats for Detroit Art Auction fundraises for nonprofits

It's an auction that's going on right now. It ends tomorrow. It's a live auction or an online auction. It's called Hard Hats for Detroit. We started this four years ago. And the concept was to find local artists and creatives to actually create a hard hat. And you can see some of them behind me here. Right, how cool these things are. This one is all built out of hard hat with leather all over it. It's pretty spectacular. They're actual people. pieces of art and they get auctioned off and a hundred percent of the proceeds The auction goes to nonprofits that each artist selected. So, for example, Trove Market, which benefits disabled creators and helps them get jobs. Say Detroit, which is Mitch Albom's organization that works with supporting Detroit youth in after school programs. And then one of them benefits Mark's Art Belonging Labs, which benefits. Caribbean young men and women who are artists and helps train them to do various professions or become an artist or use those skills for, you know, to create art and do cool things in the community. This is pretty cool. Is this the first of its kind or has this event been happening before? Well, this is our fourth year doing it, and one of our team members here actually is Jill Brack, who's our vice president of community engagement. She had this idea four years ago. I was like, why don't we do this idea? We'll get artists, and we'll have them decorate, and then auction them, and support some community organizations that we're passionate about here in Detroit. And it's just kind of evolved from there, and now we get sponsors, and it's really kind of… Kind of grown and it's really great. And you go to hardhatsfordetroit.com and anybody can just bid on one of these hardhats. They're all on there, all the information's on that website, hardhatsfordetroit.com, and you can just bid on one of them and the bidder gets it. Gets the hard hat and all the money goes to that organization. And all the information about the nonprofits are there. Information about each one of the artists are there. So it's really kind of cool. Yeah, the one in the back, right directly behind you, that is a really cool-looking hard hat display and design. My last question for you is this. To be able to get people an opportunity to express themselves. In an unconventional way, but also bring awareness to a great cause. What does that mean for you, Todd? Well, it's what we're all about at Sachse Construction. We have, you know, we have our Sachse social mission, and our Sachse social mission is really tied towards the youth of Detroit. So all of our kind of mission-based stuff that we do, whether we're volunteering or contributing money for or donating or doing fundraisers from our golf outing to events like this, is really all focused on the youth of Detroit. So that's just kind of our social mission. Our 120-plus team members, they like to be part of something bigger than themselves and kind of give us something to really rally around and see the results of what's happening in our great city. Todd, we appreciate it. One more time for people, if they want to catch this tomorrow, last day of the auction. So hardhats4detroit.com, go online, check it out. You can see on that website the previous years, all the other ones we've done, but you can bid on the ones that are right now, but that are behind me. And hopefully one of your viewers will end up with one of these really cool hard hats. We hope so. We look forward to it, Todd. Thanks so much. Yeah, thank you. Have a great day. Hey, you too.