ABOUT Brilliant Detroit
ABOUT
- ISSUE AREA : Early Childhood Education
- ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET:$7,000,000
- GEOGRAPHY: United States (Detroit, MI)
KEY FINDINGS
- Big goal is to have 24 locations by 2024; 18 locations have already been identified and committed, beginning with 3 cities in 2023 (the cities were not revealed during the conversation)
- Committed to sharing its assets with organizations in the ecosystem that can benefit from neighborhood-driven development and decision-making; thus, they are also working on open-source technologies within the next 2 years
- Moving beyond grade-level reading proficiency and outcomes, focused on partnering with national state universities to provide future educators with social-emotional learning and mental health curriculum for training and certification programs
- Seeking to increase government funding sources to offset market-driven costs (the budget is comprised of 50% restricted and 50% unrestricted funding sources respectively); they are also shifting towards digitization of their offerings in the form of evergreen and archival content
- CEO is interested in engaging with other leaders in the social impact field and has experience in being a facilitator and/or presenter in previous fellowships like Bridgespan
