Buckets of Rain

Our mission is to mentor and support high-potential youth as they prepare to pursue post-secondary education, aiming to support economic equity for Detroit's underrepresented communities.

We are bringing the power of network to high-potential but underserved talent.
Through our high potential youth program for high school and early-college students, we expose students to high-income career paths and provide mentoring through key decisions in their educational journey. We bring a network of exceptional mentors with successful careers to inspire and coach talented youth.

We are bringing the power of network to high-potential but underserved talent.
Through our high potential youth program for high school and early-college students, we expose students to high-income career paths and provide mentoring through key decisions in their educational journey. We bring a network of exceptional mentors with successful careers to inspire and coach talented youth.

We are excited to launch a 12-month program cohort with high school students starting in 2023. Applicants go through an application and selection process starting in March to join the 2023 cohort. We serve students in grades 10 through 12, where each student is paired with an experienced professional as their mentor.

In addition to dedicated mentorship with a highly quality or successful practitioner, mentees will have the opportunity to participate in career round tables with esteemed panelists, as well as special events with the full mentee cohort, mentor group, key donors, and the Board of Directors.

What makes our program stand out is our mentors. We select mentors from our professional networks who have years of work experience, work in high income career paths, and who will be excellent coaches to young talent. We purposely do not accept early career mentors but rather focus on middle to upper level professionals who have extensive experience in navigating tough career decisions. Our mentors have a passion for increasing diversity and economic equity through guiding mentees in decisions around college, field of study, and career planning. All mentors receive background checks.

Have accomplished:
In our previous activities, we accomplished the following...
-Our partnerships with two of the oldest and largest relief agencies in the country, the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries and Cass Community Social Services has given us direct and guaranteed transfer of the food we produce to the people who need it most- their clients, the homeless and hungry.
-Our many year partnerships with corporations, other non-profits, and like minded individuals have given us a capacity to act as opportunities present themselves.
-We have removed blight from 30 abandoned properties in Detroit/Highland Park. We have made available hundreds of thousands of servings of fresh vegetables to the hungry in Detroit/Highland Park and Guatemala City in the past 4 years.
-We have inoculated 20+ villages in Lesotho, Southern Africa, with the technology and supply line to grow vegetables in times of drought so diets don't rely on strictly grains.

In our new set of activities, we have reduced the previous assets from our financials, re-created our website, recruited our high-income mentors, and developed the curriculum for our new program.

Need to accomplish:
-Launch program promotion in February 2023
-Launch our first cohort in March 2023