President Barack Obama issued call-to-action in 2014 to help keep young minority males on the right track, and in Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan joined about 50 other community leaders at Wayne State University on in December of that year to set the My Brother's Keeper Detroit agenda, targeting young African-American men.
The Skillman Foundation committed $2 million total in grants to support the My Brother's Keeper work in Detroit. The Skillman Foundation is also making a $750,000 grant to the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, a national program will coordinate efforts in Detroit. The grant, to be paid over two years with $375,000 each in 2015 and 2016, focuses on building local leadership to collaborate on a shared framework to advance the work. Of those funds, $500,000 will be deployed locally to support My Brother's Keeper initiatives and projects on the ground in Detroit.
Thomas Stallworth served on the steering committee and as an eventual chairman for this work which produced the report below.
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