Community Service
Interested in Giving Back?
We’re always looking for ways to make a difference in our communities! If you have a great idea for a community service project—or if you’d like to get involved—please reach out to your local chapter. Together, we can create meaningful impact through service and support.
Chapter contact information can be found under our Leadership – Chapters.
The Greater Kent County Chapter donated to various charities within the area and beyond. This Chapter selected Streams of Hope as their primary charity for the 2024-2025 year. Streams of Hope Food Pantry received donations of peanut butter, cereal and dry goods to help needy families. They also donated hats, gloves and scarves for the residents of the local Guiding Light Shelter to help clothe their residents with winter gear, to help them survive if they are not living in the shelter and living outside in the winter months. Some are homeless or in recovery. Lastly, this Chapter donated to Operation Christmas Child. Six shoeboxes filled with special gifts for children around the world, who would not have anything for Christmas. Some of the donated items were school supplies, hair brushes, barrettes, books, soccer balls, toothbrushes, and toys of all kinds.
Greater Kent County Chapter
The Wayne County Chapter of MSMA chose to give a $200 donation to the Emotional Impairment classroom at the 5-6 Farmington Campus in Garden City. The chapter members also participated in the following community service projects: 1. Meals on Wheels program. Members of the chapter now regularly volunteer Monday-Thursday by packing and delivering meals to those in need. 2. Project Linus, an organization that provides handmade blankets to critically ill, traumatized or children in need has always been a program that is near and dear to their hearts. This Chapter has a member who regularly makes blankets for Project Linus. The Chapter donated fabric for the project. 3. The Chapter members adopted four children from the Angel Tree program for Christmas. Each child was given a fringed fleece blanket and a gift of their choice. 4. A group of members also participated in the Moon Beams for Sweet Dreams event at Corewell Health, supporting pediatric patients in the hospital during the Winter holidays. The community is invited to support pediatric patients and their families who find themselves in the hospital during the winter holidays, by shining a beam to the patient windows for 10 min. every night. 5. The Chapter offered five free CEU’s to all medical assistants via in person or ZOOM. They also offered five low cost ($5/CEU) open to all medical assistants.
Wayne County Chapter
During November of 2024, the Northwest Chapter of Medical Assistants collected food/snacks for the Leelanau Christian Services Blessing in a Backpack program. Leelanau Christian Services fills the backpacks full of food and snacks for the weekend so the students have something to eat. The Northwest Chapter members helped to donate extra food, to help cover supplies for the backpacks over the Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. The NW Chapter was able to collect three large carts of food.
Northwest Chapter of Medical Assistants 2025