Bound Together

Mission: To create a safe, stable, diverse environment for personal and academic excellence

For 30 years, Bound Together has provided tutoring, friendship and community to children and their families in Pontiac, Michigan. “BT” was founded in 1994 by parishioners at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pontiac as a response to the needs of students in a neighboring school. In 1999, Bound Together became an independent non-profit organization, working in close partnership with All Saints, as well as other area churches, civic and government agencies, to provide tutoring, a hot evening meal, as well as offering enrichment programming in visual art, STEM, literacy, and physical fitness for up to 31 elementary and middle school students.

Bound Together’s dedicated volunteers and staff provide support for experiential learning on “FunDay Mondays”, and 1:1 tutoring for students on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Volunteers  commit to read, to write, to add/subtract and to laugh with a child on a weekly basis. We also serve a healthy snack, offer some much needed “down time” between school and tutoring, and provide a hot meal before sending students home. Our volunteers are a diverse group: retired engineers, professionals, and educators; they are high school students and medical school students; they are grandmoms and granddads, people from faith communities and civic organizations across Oakland County. The constant variable? That all of them are willing to be truly present in the life of a child.