Detroit Action’s mission is to build the power of individuals and families to challenge the root cause of poverty, advance justice, and promote human development through neighborhood-driven community organizing and civic engagement. 

We envision an inclusive and sustainable Metro Detroit built through multigenerational, Black and LatinX working class organizing and leadership development at the local and state level to create opportunities for all people to thrive. To achieve this vision, low and moderate income Metro Detroiters of color must build power to affect change through deep relational organizing that focuses on developing people and addressing their immediate needs as we challenge institutions that create and perpetuate those needs. 

Detroit Action is launching a bold and visionary agenda that will realign laws, policies, and budgets, with our values of equity and justice. The Agenda For A New Economy attacks the root causes of systemic poverty, racism and violence, by launching a concrete plan for state and local legislation to invest in quality jobs, education, and community-based programs in the communities that have been systematically stripped of its resources and wealth. Finally, this agenda will provide our leaders with a framework for organizing that wins concrete improvements in the lives of Detroiters and helps build local power in our communities by attacking racial capitalism. Our agenda focuses on the following three key pillars: