Grantee Database

HIPHOPFORCHANGE INC

Grant Year

2022-23

Grant Program

JUMP StArts

Award Amount

$74,813.00

Project Description

Hip Hop for Change’s Pipeline to Positivity Program provides marginalized BIPOC youth to engage in Arts and Music Educational Programming grounded in positive youth development theory and practice. We prioritize serving system-engaged youth who have been arrested, are incarcerated at a juvenile justice facility or on juvenile probation.

Organization Summary

By instilling the positive principles of Hip Hop: Peace, Love, Unity, and having Fun, HH4C has generated expressive and experiential programs to empower our local Bay Area community.

Our Education Department breaks down barriers between youth and justice issues that affect their lives and communities using Hip hop as a vehicle. We offer several programs and workshops, teaching the history, principles, and the artistic expression of Hip Hop Culture nationwide. In addition, our education department gives youth opportunities to healthy coping mechanisms through these new practices for positive introspection and expression. Over 28,000 students, grades K-12, have experienced our curricula, while around half of our programming has been provided free of charge to under-resourced institutions. In addition, our education department hires Hip Hop artists within our community, training them in trauma-informed care to better serve our youth.

HH4C’s educational curriculum has reached over 26,000 students nationally, through the facilitation of Hip Hop lectures and camps catered toward BIPOC youth. Examples of our educational programs include: THE MC: Theory of Hip Hop Evolution, a five-part experimental K-12 curriculum that details the history and social impact, of Hip Hop; and Agents of Change, a week-long naturalist camp in partnership with East Bay Regional Parks District that functions to increase environmental access for marginalized youth.

Our grassroots program serves as an employee development program, training people from our community to become grassroots activists. Our team engages in daily conversations locally to foster cross-cultural dialogue in affluent neighborhoods and involve the general public in social advocacy.

Our events department works on planning and executing community events that amplify local artists and youth voices by providing them with a platform to share their music and artwork.

Organization

Nonprofit Entity

Address

515 55th Street, Suite A

Oakland

94609

County

Alameda

Region

Bay Area – Other

Phone

(510) 350-7730

Congressional District

California's 13th congressional district

State Assembly District

District 15

State Senate District

District 9

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