Affiliates
Action Without Borders
Action Without Borders connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
AWB is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.
BIOHH (Blame it on Hip Hop)
BIOHH’s mission is to promote the positive aspects of what Hip Hop has done and will continue to do in this society. We are a clothing line designed with a purpose. That purpose is to change the negative perception of Hip-Hop.
California Nurses Association
Founded in 1903, the California Nurses Association today represents over 75,000 members in 165 facilities throughout California, and thousands more across the country through the National Nurses Organizing Committee, which was founded by CNA. They are the largest and fastest-growing organization of direct care Registered Nurses in the country and are dedicated to providing a voice for nurses and a vision for healthcare.
Their continuing education, mentoring and professional development programs provide members with the tools and training they need to stay at the forefront of our ever-changing profession.
C.H.A.M. (Christian Homeless Alliance Ministry)
CHAM (Community Homeless Alliance Ministry) is a Christian ministry whose mission is to preach good news to the poor and proclaim freedom for the oppressed. We fight to house the homeless, feed the hungry, heal the sick, and lift up our people.
Located in San Jose, California, CHAM fights on the front lines in the spiritual warfare raging in America today. We believe that with God we can defeat poverty, illness, oppression, racism and all forms of injustice in our society. We have seen God’s hand at work through the Holy Spirit performing daily miracles among those who are cast-aside, downtrodden and oppressed.
Our sense of the sacredness of life calls us to action: to commit ourselves to the kingdom of God through acts of justice. This means fighting for economic human rights for all, as proclaimed in Articles 23, 25 and 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Community Against Hate
Community Against Hate was founded by in 1998 by Maurice “Soulfighter†Taylor then President of African American Cultural Society at Springfield Technical Community College and member of DarkSouls collective. CAH was created to be a place where as artists and community members can openly discuss oppression only and only if the discussion is tailored with solutions to end oppression, by building mechanism of freedom. We have created many events in Western Massachusetts and the creating of Western Mass Poetry Slams is another cultural venture to enhance our literary community through out Western Mass.
Council of Venues
The Council of Venues strives to educate, enlighten, and entertain through spoken word, dance, art, and music. The Council of Venues strives to get more artists heard and seen by as many people as possible and will use every conceivable means and method to do so.
The Council of Venues will unite artists and supporters to promote social activism and civic engagement, generate awareness of social, economic, and political issues; and support those who promote the positive voice of poetry/spoken word, music, dance, and art.
The core values of the Council of Venues are:
Community
Positive Growth
Integrity
Social Activism and Civic Engagement
Unity
Collaboration
Education
DaveyD.com
Davey D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist. He’s been down with Hip Hop since 1977 in the Bronx where he started out as an emcee for two crews; TDK [Total Def Krew] out of Co-op City and the Avengers out of the Marble Hill Section of the Bronx. Later Davey D came out to Cali to go to school at UC Berkeley and started deejaying in the Bay Area. His mobile deejay work and community activism eventually lead him deejaying at radio stations including KALX, KPFA and later KMEL. The writings on his website are frequently referenced and quoted by journalists, scholars and professors and fans from all around the world. He writes for numerous publications and magazines and puts out a popular Internet newsletter called the FNV Newsletter which has a subscriber base of 100 thousand people. His newsletter like his website is also frequently referenced and quoted.
Funk Foundation Collective
Hip Hop Chess Federation
The purpose of the Hip Hop Chess Federation is to use Hip-Hop and Chess to help young bright minds actualize their potential.
Ill Crew Universal
A worldwide Hip-Hop organization dedicated to the preservation, activism, empowerment, balance and unity of Hip-Hop culture expressed in all of its elements. Their goal is to educate and network artists, activists, musicians and thinkers so as to enrich the Hip-Hop community and promote positivity, resourcefulness, interdependence, consciousness and progressive change in society.
Justice by Uniting in Creative Energy (JUiCE)
The Mission of JUiCE is to address the root causes of Juvenile Crime and of youth’s need for belonging by providing a safe center run by and for young people, focused on skill building in the arts surrounding hip-hop culture: word, music, art, and dance.JUiCE openend in June 2001. Between thirty and one-hundred participants of all ages attend JUiCE on a weekly basis. They believe in hip-hop’s transformation abilities to empower young people and affect us individually and communally. JUiCE not only provides young people a safe, artistic outlet, but serves the commmunity through postivie, conscious hip-hop.
Mindzeye
Mississippi Artists and Producers Coalition
Monkeyclaus.org
A combined recording studio, digital music distributor, arts collective and social movement based in the Blue Ridge mountains of Central Virginia
Music for America
A nonprofit organization engaging young people in politics through partnerships with musicians and music communities.
National Hip Hop Political Convention
The National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) is a developing national organization operating in 20 states throughout the country working on issues facing the hiphop generation. Our keystone event is the bi annual National Hip Hop Political Convention, where delegates and local organizing committees from the Hip Hop Generation vote on, adopt and endorse a political agenda for the Hip Hop Generation. The purpose of the National Hip Hop Political Convention is to support the movement towards increased civic and political participation within the Hip Hop Generation by 1)Developing and promoting a community agenda for the Hip Hop Generation, 2)Supporting a national organizational infrastructure for the Hip Hop Generation and 3)Supporting potential Hip Hop Generation civic leaders and candidates through education and training.
Opportunities Industrial Center West (OICW)
A non-profit job training and placement center on the Menlo Park-East Palo Alto border.
OICW provides training, counseling and job placement services, teen programs, and child development at low or no cost to people who need their help.
Organic Soul
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to unite the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. We work to accomplish this through advancing economic human rights as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as the rights to food, housing, health, education, communication and a living wage job.
Public Allies Silicon Valley
Public Allies advances diverse young leaders to strengthen communities, nonprofits and civic participation.
Reclaim the Media
Based in Seattle, Reclaim the Media is a small nonprofit organization dedicated to pursuing a more just society by transforming our media system and expanding the communications rights of ordinary people through grassroots organizing, education, networking and advocacy. We envision an authentic, just democracy characterized by media systems that inform and empower citizens, reflect our diverse cultures, and secure communications rights for everyone. We advocate for a free and diverse press, community access to communications tools and technology, and media policy that serves the public interest. Three broad themes guide our projects:
- We work to change media policy at the local and federal level, so that the structure of our media favors the public interest, rather than a powerful elite.
- We teach media literacy education because we all need to understand how news can be shaped by journalistic habits and by powerful commercial and political interests.
- We support community media because we cannot entrust our history, our cultures and our democracy to the consolidated media empires alone.
R.E.F.U.G.E. (Real Education For Urban Growth Enterprises)
Rock & Rap Confidential
Positioned at a high volume international crossroads of musical and political information, Rock & Rap Confidential is the monthly newsletter edited by Grammy-winning writer Dave Marsh. RRC accepts no advertising so they are free to tell the truth about what’s going on in music. They also promote every style of music.
S.A.V.O.Y. (Stop All Violence on Youth)
California based organization dedicated to ending violent crimes against youth in Oakland.
Soundslam.com
The editors are Hip Hop Congress leaders, which should be enough reason to check the site. But in addition, Alex aka Roosevelt Treasurechest (former IU Chapterhead) and Nick aka MetroGnome (Indianapolis Community Chapter), are known for their cutting interviews that ask less about the bling and more about how artists are effecting their communities.
Seattle Urban Deabte Foundation
The Seattle Debate Foundation (SDF) is a youth development foundation committed to introducing debate as a vehicle for academic achievement and student empowerment. Debate is a proven tool to teach critical thinking, communication, and research skills.
The SDF supports debate through the Seattle Urban Debate League, a program that partners with Seattle Public Schools and the Alliance for Education to create competitive, sustainable debate teams.
Seattle is part of a 15-city network of UDLs committed to creating debate opportunities for underserved urban students.
Silicon Valley De-Bug
Silicon Valley De-Bug is a collective of writers, artists, organizers, and workers based in San Jose, California. We are a project of Pacific News Service, a national news service located in San Francisco. De-Bug started in the Spring of 2000 by reporting on the hidden experiences of working people who were employed as low-wage temporary workers. As we grew as a collective we began exploring all of the issues of our community – in the workplace, schools, streets, relationships, and everything else.
De-Bug is about allowing everybody to tell the stories of their lives, and their opinions on the world, both near and far. We operate by the principle that experience is the ultimate authority. In this way, we are creating a platform for otherwise unheard stories to be communicated to eachother and the world around us.
S.P.A.N. (Single Payer Action Network of Ohio)
The Single-Payer Action Network Ohio (SPAN Ohio) is a statewide coalition of organizations and individuals in Ohio seeking fundamental health care reform in our state and country so that every resident is guaranteed full and comprehensive coverage. This includes the full range of medical services, hospitalization, prescriptions, vision care, dental care, mental health care, home care, long-term care, and care for all injuries and illnesses.
We advocate the establishment of a public fund that would pay all health care bills without co-payments or deductibles. Funding would come from the savings realized by eliminating the administrative waste and profits of the 1,500 private insurance companies and HMOs, savings from greater utilization of preventive medicine, and from additional mechanisms deemed necessary to ensure that the public fund has the necessary financial resources, with adequate reserves. The plan we call for is known as a single-payer universal health care system.
Temple of Hip Hop
An organization founded by KRS One. Its goal is to maintain and promote the hip hop culture. Temple of Hip Hop maintains that hip hop is a genuine political movement and culture, as it has been accepted by the United Nations as a culture. The Temple of Hip Hop calls on all hip hop fans to celebrate Hip Hop Appreciation Week, occurring in mid-May. It encourages DJs and MCs to teach people about the culture of Hip Hop, to write more socially conscious songs, and radio stations to play more socially conscious hip hop.
The Arc
The national organization of and for people with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families. It is devoted to promoting and improving supports and services for people with mental retardation and their families. The association also fosters research and education regarding the prevention of mental retardation in infants and young children.
The Center for Civic Participation
The Center for Civic Participation’s mission is to increase civic engagement by individuals and organizations in ways that both strengthen our democratic institutions and encourage public involvement in civic life. CCP’s priority is to work in communities that have been historically underrepresented in our democratic process. CCP has core staff in Minneapolis, with consultants in Florida, New York, San Francisco, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC.
The Coalition to Protect Public Housing
An advocacy group of public housing residents, community-based organizations, religious institutions, businesses, and non-profit organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Community Renewal Society, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, and Metropolitan Tenants Organization all working to protect the rights of public housing and to ensure the future of public housing.
The Hip-Hop Association
Hip-Hop Association (H2A) was formed in March 2002 with the goal of facilitating, fostering and preserving Hip-Hop’s original vision. The Hip-Hop Association (H2A) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) community building organization with national headquarters in Harlem. Their mission is to utilize Hip-Hop culture as a tool to facilitate critical thinking, foster social change and unity, by empowering communities through the use of media, technology, education, and leadership development; while preserving Hip-Hop culture for future generations.
The Hip-Hop Caucus
The Hip-Hop Caucus (H2C) is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501c4 membership association created to establish a national and international coalition of pop-culture, social and political organizations, community based organizations, youth leadership organizations, and individuals who believe in the collective power of persons aged 14-39 years old. The Hip-Hop Caucus was established to provide a comrephensive agenda for the Hip-Hop community both domestically and abroad. The Caucus programs promote social and political equality in the areas of Economics, Education, Health Care, Housing, and Justice.
The League of Pissed Off Voters
The League of Young Voters is a national organization that supports young people to build power to solve problems in our communities. We work with young people who have been shut out of the political process to make politics fun, engaging, relevant, and meaningful.
The Universal Zulu Nation
Originally known simply as The Organization, the Universal Zulu Nation is an “international hip hop awareness” group, which arose among reformed street gang members in New York City in the 1970s, formed and headed by hip hop music pioneer Afrika Bambaataa.
Thuglifearmy.com
This site was inspired by Tupac Shakur and consistantly supports Hip Hop Congress based articles. They try to bring a lil social relevance to the news. They also like to introduce you to new artist who may not get a fair shake from the mainstream press.
This site is a fan-based site. Built by fans for fans of Tupac Shakur. A lot of people have done a lot of work, for no pay —to get this site up and running (sound familiar??). And they are still adding and building.
You will notice different links through out the site. Links to Family Violence Prevention, The Black Panther Party, Mutulu Shakur, Bro. Min. Malcolm X and so on. All these site have relevance. Tupac was brought up with all these influences. Check them out. See what influenced the thinking of Tupac.
Unite Here (Midwest)
We are fighting for our future. And we do just that, each and every day! Our fight is for better health care, livable wages, improved benefits, pension protection and safety on the job. We are fighting for our future on the job – in the community – in the political arena.
Unity Care
The Unity Care Group is a community-based, non-profit youth development agency.
Founded with the goal of developing educational and social programs to enrich the lives of at-risk youth, our mission is to provide quality youth programs for the purpose of creating healthier communities through life-long partnerships.
We have three primary objectives:
- To provide safe, secure and positive living environments;
- To educate at-risk youth; and
- To prepare our young people to pursue professions chronically under-represented by minorities.
Unity Care Group challenges the impact that drugs, gangs and other self-destructive activities have on our youth today by offering a supportive family environment.
Unity Care strives to eliminate negative and destructive environments through education, self-management, interpersonal skill building and interaction with a variety of positive role models. Our programs promote ideals such as graduating from high school, pursuing a college degree and becoming a contributing member of society.
We believe that by providing a safe, nurturing and creative environment of social, academic, spiritual, and professional development, we will break down the stagnation and poverty that is so dominant in the minority sector.
Women’s Economic Agenda Project
The Women’s Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) demands economic justice for poor women and their families. WEAP envisions a world in which all women and their families have the skills, shelter, and nourishment they need to enjoy happy, healthy, and productive lives. WEAP assists poor women to achieve a livable wage by providing technical training, emotional support, and linkage to resources. WEAP recognizes that the policies that affect the poorest of our sisters affect all people. WEAP works to change societal and governmental policies that relegate women to the bottom of the economic pyramid.