About this Event
✨ The Premier Black-Tie Masquerade Benefit Experience of 2026 in Southeast Michigan - Benefitting a GROUNDBREAKING Solution to an Underserved Demographic✨
Elegance. Purpose. Celebration. Transformation.
Help her find stability. Help her build a legacy.
For 10 years, DIVAS (Diamonds Inspiring Virtue And Success) has served women, children, and individuals experiencing homelessness. The MasqHERade Gala supports our next chapter: the DIVAS Women’s Transformational Housing Initiative.
Celebrate a Decade of Impact. Help Launch the Next Decade of Transformation.
An Evening of Elegance & Purpose
Whether you’re a community leader, corporate partner, advocate, entrepreneur, or someone passionate about creating lasting change, your presence and financial support helps write the next chapter of hope for women and families in our community.
As DIVAS celebrates ten years of serving with compassion and consistency, we invite you to become part of the legacy.
Together, we can create pathways to independence.
Together, we can restore hope.
Together, we can transform lives.
Our Mission
To help working women experiencing housing insecurity—and their minor children—build a foundation of safe housing, financial stability, and lasting opportunity.
Our planned program combines affordable housing with structured savings, financial education, credit development, homebuyer preparation, and entrepreneurship training.
Our Vision: Housing to Homeowner-preneurship
We envision women becoming confident homeowners and entrepreneurs, equipped to build wealth and create opportunities for the next generation.
Our distinctive goal is multifamily homeownership: a graduate living in one unit while responsibly renting additional units to help support housing costs and build equity.
Introducing the DIVAS Women’s Transformation Housing Initiative
This isn’t a homeless shelter.
This isn’t an income-based housing program.
This is a transformational pathway to lasting financial independence and housing security.
The DIVAS Women’s Transformational Housing Initiative is an innovative model that combines:
✨ Safe, supportive housing
✨ Character and leadership development
✨ Financial literacy and practical life skills
✨ Entrepreneurship and wealth-building education
✨ Community mentorship and accountability
✨ Real Estate Strategy
To empower women to move from barely enough to more than enough. From surviving to thriving.
Because every woman deserves more than temporary assistance—she deserves the opportunity to build a future filled with stability, purpose, confidence, and generational impact.
This evening isn’t simply about raising funds.
It’s about raising awareness.
It’s about changing narratives.
It’s about creating opportunities for women who simply need a hand UP—not a handout.
We're Not New To This. We're True To This.
For the past decade, DIVAS (Diamonds Inspiring Virtue And Success) has faithfully served women, children, and individuals experiencing homelessness every single month without interruption. Through our Bridge the Gap Outreach Program, we have provided thousands of hot meals, essential resources, personal care items, and hope to those navigating some of life’s most difficult seasons. We’ve partnered with shelters and organizations across the country because we believe every person deserves dignity, opportunity, and someone willing to believe in the future.
Inspired by the promise of Jeremiah 29:11—
“For I know the plans I have for you… plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
—we are now stepping into our most ambitious mission yet.
Why Your Support Matters
Hard work alone does not always create a path out of housing insecurity. Stable housing, practical education, and resources can help turn determination into progress.
Your sponsorship or donation will help DIVAS bring this vision to life—from developing housing capacity to providing education and homeownership preparation.
Invest in her stability today. Help make her ownership possible tomorrow.
Event venue & nearby stays
Hilton Garden Inn Detroit/Novi, 27355 Cabaret Drive, Novi, United States
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