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- EIN 27-1165010
- (202) 293-5902
- 20 F St Nw Fl 7 Washington DC 20001-6700 USA
- www.hiphopcaucus.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Community Service Clubs
Mission: The hip hop caucus is a civil and human rights organization for the 21st century. Our vision is to create a more just and sustainable world by engaging more people, particularly young people and people of color in the civic and policy making process. The non-partisan mission of the hip hop caucus is to organize young people to be active in elections, policymaking and service projects. We mobilize, educate, and engage young people, ages 14 to 40, on the social, issues that directly impact their lives and communities.
Programs: Climate change and environmental justice is our program to advance a clean energy economy, and a sustainable future for our planet and our communities. We educate communities and the media about health disparities due to disproportionate pollution in poor communities, as well as the dangerous impacts of climate change on poor communities and communities of color. We organize grassroots and "grasstops" leaders to promote energy solutions that decrease our dependence on fossil fuels, and increase clean energy infrastructure, investments, and jobs.
strengthening democracy is our program for the "respect my vote! " campaign, which is a non-partisan voter mobilization and education campaign targeting young people between the ages of 18 and 40 years-old. We strengthen democracy by focusing on civic engagement to increase citizen participation in elections and the democratic process.
civil and human rights leadership in the 21st century is our program to train, empower, and provide resources to leaders between the ages of 14 and 40 years-old, to organize their communities around civil and human rights causes. The causes include criminal justice reform, civil liberties and freedoms, access to quality education, access to affordable health care, just immigration policy, equal rights, and just and appropriate responses to natural disasters.