Jule Krüger and Scott Carter For Brilliant Detroit

"Children are our greatest treasure. They are our future." - Nelson Mandela. We learned about Brilliant Detroit during the Covid-19 pandemic and have been impressed with their work ever since. Please help us support their critical mission, so that the children of Detroit today can shape a thriving future for the city tomorrow.

Welcome to Brilliant Detroit's Rock Community Challenge Fundraiser page!  

We are Brilliant Detroit, an organization dedicated to building “kid success neighborhoods” where families with children ages 0-8 have what they need to be school-ready, healthy and stable. We do this by purchasing and renovating homes in the middle of neighborhoods, and transforming them into community hubs where we provide access to evidence-based programming in the areas of education, health, family support, and neighbor-to-neighbor connections.

Currently in Detroit, 60% of children under the age of 5 live in poverty and 15.7% of children are reading at grade level by the third grade. Brilliant Detroit seeks to fill the gap in the delivery of programs and services by working with over 50 partners directly on the blocks of our neighborhoods. We provide high-dosage, one-on-one literacy tutoring, as well as programs such as Play + Learn, cooking classes, family yoga, and parenting workshops. Together, we will rise as a community by increasing the literacy rates of our youngest children and promoting overall wellbeing for our families. Image Caption: Two pictures of Brilliant Detroit's Fitzgerald Hub before and after it was renovated. We have 12 home-based hubs and serve about 7,000 children and caregivers annually. However, our work has only just begun and we intend to have 24 houses by 2024 in order to create population level impact. Working "with, for, and by" each neighborhood will always be core to who we are. This model is so important to our work and we intentionally make it our goal to hire individuals from the neighborhoods to work within hubs, as well as create advisory boards comprised of members of the community.

Please join our movement today by donating below! Your donation is an investment in a more equitable future where zip codes no longer determine the outcomes of our children. Thank you!

Check out our video to learn more about how our Brilliant community persisted amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in our 2020 video "We Will Rise":

See our infographic below for more information pertaining to our communities today:

If you need any assistance processing your donation, or would like more information about our work, please email us at info@brilliantdetroit.org.