The My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge is a call to action for cities, Tribal Nations, towns, and counties to build and execute robust plans to ensure that all young people—no matter who they are, where they come from, or the circumstances into which they are born—can achieve their full potential.

About the Challenge

In February 2014, President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) initiative to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential. The My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge seeks to inspire community leaders, and encourage their commitment to ensuring all young people can succeed.

The My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge encourages communities to convene leaders, identify effective strategies, and work together toward achieving these goals:

1. Ensuring all children enter school cognitively, physically, socially and emotionally ready;
2. Ensuring all children read at grade level by third grade;
3. Ensuring all youth graduate from high school;
4. Ensuring all youth complete post-secondary education or training;
5. Ensuring all youth out of school are employed; and
6. Ensuring all youth remain safe from violent crime.

The urgency of the situation requires a sustained effort from all of us. Local leadership is essential to building partnerships and developing plans of action to ensure a brighter future for all young people. That’s why the President is issuing a challenge to cities, towns, counties, and Tribal Nations to commit to building “My Brother’s Keeper Communities” and implementing a coherent cradle-to-college and career strategy, consistent with the goals and recommendations of the May 28, 2014 report of the President’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force, to ensure that all young people can succeed.

Across the country, business leaders, non-profits, foundations, and local school systems are stepping up to answer the President’s call to action. Local elected officials and tribal leaders know what it takes to build sustainable change. Will you join us?

Read the specifics of the Challenge.

My Brother’s Keeper Task Force One Year Progress Report to the President

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Supplemental Resources

• Playbook for Action
• Step 1 – Supplemental Material
• Step 2 – Supplemental Material
• Email and Agenda Template

MBK Community Challenge National Convening Agenda and Speaker Bios

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MBK Community Challenge Milestone Webinar Presentations

• MBK Community Challenge Webinar: Implementation
• MBK Community Challenge Webinar: Milestone 1 Entering School Ready to Learn
• MBK Community Challenge Webinar: Milestone 2 Reading at Grade Level by Third Grade
• MBK Community Challenge Webinar: Milestone 3 Graduating from High School Ready for College and Career
• MBK Community Challenge Webinar: Milestone 4 Completing Post-Secondary Education or Training
• MBK Community Challenge Webinar: Milestone 5 Successfully Entering the Workforce
• MBK Community Challenge Webinar: Milestone 6 Reducing Violence and Providing a Second Chance

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MBK Community Action Resource Guides

• MBK Community Action Resource Guide: Implementation
• MBK Community Action Resource Guide: Milestone 1 Entering School Ready to Learn
• MBK Community Action Resource Guide: Milestone 2 Reading at Grade Level by Third Grade
• MBK Community Action Resource Guide: Milestone 3 Graduating from High School Ready for College and Career
• MBK Community Action Resource Guide: Milestone 4 Completing Post-Secondary Education or Training
• MBK Community Action Resource Guide: Milestone 5 Successfully Entering the Workforce
• MBK Community Action Resource Guide: Milestone 6 Reducing Violence and Providing a Second Chance
• My Brother’s Keeper Communities Information

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