EMERGENCY PILOT SPRINT · May – August 2026
$50,000. 8 weeks.
This is what equity looks like in action.
$50,000. 8 weeks. This is what equity looks like in action.
We’re not waiting until the infrastructure is perfect. We’re funding change right now — for one family, and for a high school team that’s been locked out of State for three years.
R&B'S FIRST GENERATIONAL GROVE
Meet the Schilling Family
Brylee is 13. Isla is 11. Esmae is 9. In the 2023–24 season, all three competed — teams and solos. Then, the money ran out.
The 2024-2025 season, Isla and Esmae sat out. Brylee competed alone. Their mom kept private lessons going anyway.
Brylee came back this season bolder — fighting for stage time, earning the opportunity, and proving she could keep up with those she looks up to. Isla and Esmae? Came back NOT where they were. Better. Highlighted in team routines. Dominating.
The oldest showed them how. The younger ones watched. That's what this family does.
Dance costs $35,000— 34 cents of every dollar their family earns. They are in debt to their studio.
And they are still here. Still fighting. Still dominating.
Two younger sisters are watching everything Brylee, Isla, and Esmae do next.
In this family, what these three girls choose matters beyond them.
The Schillings didn't come to R&B looking for charity. They came because Jess recognized that these three girls have the potential to change their whole family's trajectory — and she needed a partner who saw it too. R&B saw it.
Jessica and Justin have spent years giving to their community — coaching youth sports, organizing cancer fundraisers, supporting other families, rescuing animals. Their daughters work hard, dream big, and want to pour into others the same way their parents do.
They've earned this. And they cannot do it alone.
R&B's investment sets all three up for the 2026–27 season — auditions in May, summer training in July. It does not rescue them. It removes the wall that was never supposed to be there in the first place.
This is not three scholarships. It is one family line that refused to let the cycle start — and R&B making sure they never have to fight this hard again.
All donations processed through Roses of Affirmation 501(c)(3) · Tax-deductible
YOUR INVESTMENT
Every level is a moment.
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$500
The Family Emergency Fund. When something comes up and a family needs R&B to say “we’ve got it” instead of “we’re sorry.”
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$1,000
One Root Mentor. One scholar. Ten months. The relationship the research says rewrites trajectories.
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$2,500
She trained for ten months. She showed up. She proved she was ready. Your $2,500 honors that.
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$5,000
Root, Bloom, Stem, and Garden Mentor — the complete Mentor Family for one scholar for one full season.
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$10,000
Every cost. Every mentor. The door and the people who walked through it with her.
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$35,000
The Schilling Generational Grove. Three sisters. One inflection point.
Rhythm & Bloom operates under the fiscal sponsorship of Roses of Affirmation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are tax-deductible and managed with full financial oversight.
Fiscal Sponsor: Roses of Affirmation · Cynthia Evans, Founder