Hip Hop For Change
Hip Hop For Change is an educational nonprofit that works with youth in grades K-12 to return Hip Hop to its roots as an empowering social justice art form and counter the corporate world’s dehumanizing narrative and images of Black people and especially Black youth. They also raise funds for local causes that enrich marginalized and historically oppressed communities.
Hip Hop For Change provides intensive instruction to thousands of students (21,000 since its inception) annually on all elements of Hip Hop - DJing, EmCeeing, Graffiti Art, Breakdance, and Hip Hop History. They feature local artists -- ones whose messages are too positive or too political for the commercial scene -- at Youth Empowerment Concerts. They employ young artists as educators and street ambassadors, a large-scale jobs program that engages with the public and young people directly about the need for activism and self-expression.
They are reclaiming Hip Hop for good, using it to empower and educate Black youth and all youth about Black history. COVID has forced them to furlough 75% of their staff, who are still working hard between quarantining and protesting to create the first extensive online youth Hip Hop course (in both English and Spanish) which they hope will take their pedagogy global.
Thank you for your support!
Hamilton Music Directors in support of BLM/Black Art Matters
Alex Lacamoire, Richard Beadle, Andre Cerullo, Kurt Crowley, Patrick Fanning, Matt Gallagher, Lily Ling, Mike Moise, Roberto Sinha, Ian Weinberger
Hip Hop For Change provides intensive instruction to thousands of students (21,000 since its inception) annually on all elements of Hip Hop - DJing, EmCeeing, Graffiti Art, Breakdance, and Hip Hop History. They feature local artists -- ones whose messages are too positive or too political for the commercial scene -- at Youth Empowerment Concerts. They employ young artists as educators and street ambassadors, a large-scale jobs program that engages with the public and young people directly about the need for activism and self-expression.
They are reclaiming Hip Hop for good, using it to empower and educate Black youth and all youth about Black history. COVID has forced them to furlough 75% of their staff, who are still working hard between quarantining and protesting to create the first extensive online youth Hip Hop course (in both English and Spanish) which they hope will take their pedagogy global.
Thank you for your support!
Hamilton Music Directors in support of BLM/Black Art Matters
Alex Lacamoire, Richard Beadle, Andre Cerullo, Kurt Crowley, Patrick Fanning, Matt Gallagher, Lily Ling, Mike Moise, Roberto Sinha, Ian Weinberger
Organizer
Lily Ling
Organizer
San Francisco, CA
Anonymous
Beneficiary