We are a coalition creating a Detroit where every student graduates ready to become a fully engaged participant in the world, equipped with the character and the capacity to negotiate their environment and change it for the better.
Fall Events & Engagement
482Forward is an organization made up of members! We need you to be apart of our fight in order to win! We're inviting all who are interested to attend an orientation and become a member September 16th! This will be a virtual orientation! Register here. Please email Krystina at krystina@482forward.org with any questions or concerns.
482forward is always working to build people power and bring together parents, students, teachers, and community members all invested in education justice.
Join us December 13th to begin planning our process for 2024 in order to get 1000 of us in one room, making demands to our elected officials and hearing their plans and commitments to us. We will also celebrate all the work we've done this year, especially our wins! Register here.
Recent Events
Don’t miss 482Forward’s Solution Summit, Saturday, June 3rd, from 9:30-3pm! Register here
482Forward’s top priority is education justice. When you join our org and attend our events It’s an opportunity to solve the problems of communities struggle with as a student parent or teacher, and to develop yourself as an individual leader.
We’re inviting you to our June 3rd solutions summit, an opportunity to learn more context, data, facts and history about these issues, and to decide how to take action!
Join us for our Fall Conference, November 4th from 9am-3pm, where we will learn from literacy experts about tools, interventions and solutions we can recommend to the Detroit Literacy Task Force in order to use the $94 million meant for literacy effectively. We will also learn about the history of literacy, and how we can work together to fight for $4.5 billion more across Michigan in order to truly solve the literacy issue for all students. Register here.
Become a Member!
482Forward members are volunteers who are commited to our work for education justice for all Detroit students. After completing our new member orientation, you have the opportunity to join our neighborhood-based teams to focus on hyperlocal campaigns or our network committees to support policy, research, voter engagement, and more that seeds our campaign work. There are so many ways for new and experienced activists to plug into our local and statewide work-- click the button below to get more info!
