Concrete Rose Nonprofit Organization was incorporated by E. R. Stallings LLC on March 11, 2016. The idea was sparked when the Founder Earnest Stallings Jr. was reciting “The Rose That Grew From Concrete, a poem written by Tupac Shakur. After reading the poem to a group and trying to interpret the meaning to them, a child rose her hand and asked “Am I a Concrete Rose?”  “Yes you are” Earnest replied and a concept was born in that moment. Earnest and a small group of volunteers regularly returned to the library to educate and encourage the youth there. It wasn’t until a parent asked for help with keeping her son motivated that Concrete Rose was born. We noticed that the son was good at drawing, but there were no nonprofit art classes to help him perfect his skill. There were nonprofit classes for adults but not for children. This developed into a resource research mission.  Classes were available if you had the money, which wasn’t the case in the situation. The mother worked, however she just didn’t have the disposable income to afford art classes. Was there not one organization that helped develop skills and talent in kids for the under privliged? We discovered that, although we have always encouraged our children to strive to be whatever they wanted to be, the programs to aid in this accomplishment just wasn’t there. We were so determined to find an outlet for him that we created that outlet ourselves. We find it unfair that a hardworking mother, who just wants the best for her son, couldn’t get access to help. With so many registered nonprofits in America it was hard to believe how difficult it was to address this issue. Today we operate and serve as a youth resource organization working hard to bridge the gap between poor and prosperous.