Hip Hop 4 Life (Formerly Hip Hip 4 Health) is a 501 c(3) not-for-profit youth empowerment organization dedicated to engaging, educating and empowering young people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Health professionals, entertainers, celebrities and athletes are enlisted to educate young people on health issues through interactive workshops and empowerment seminars. Hip Hop 4 Life serves young people aged 10-18, with a special emphasis on at risk and low income youth.
Since its inception in 2003, Hip Hop 4 Life has partnered with youth and community service organizations to execute workshops and events that have reached thousands of young people nationwide.
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Programs
Shades of Beauty: Today's Girls, Tomorrow's Women An empowerment program designed to address issues affecting today's girls including body image, self-esteem, the true definition of "beauty," goal-setting, sexuality, peer pressure, hygiene, drugs/alcohol/tobacco, and the negative portrayal of women in entertainment, media and society. Hip Hop 4 Life helps girls to realize their true beauty and empower them to be truly outstanding.
Man Up! An Empowerment Program For Boys (ages 10-17) An empowerment program designed to address issues a boy faces during this transition to manhood including self-esteem, respect, responsibility, sexuality, hygiene, alcohol/drugs/tobacco vision-building, goal-setting and the true definition of a man. Hip Hop 4 Life works to develop a positive foundation in the lives of the boys. In November 2007, Hip Hop 4 Life launched Man UP! In partnership with BET's Emmy-award winning Rap It Up program.
Teen Empowerment Team Teen empowerment program that provides a viable platform to assist teens in the development of their leadership potential, communication skills and self-esteem. This initiative engages 50 teens (aged 13-18) across the New York City area in support of Hip Hop 4 Life events and advisory committees.
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Events
Hip Hop 4 Life's Past and Future Events include:
- BET Rap It Up and Hip Hop 4 Life Youth Empowerment Tour As part of a national HIV/AIDS public awareness initiative, BET Rap It Up partnered with Hip Hop 4 Life and NYC's Hot 97 radio station to host a series of celebrity forums. The 4-day tour visited local New York City high schools to address social behaviors and attitudes impacting today's young adults.
- Georgia Campaign For Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Atlanta, GA
- Health Time At the Apollo, Harlem Health Day
- National Kids Day, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, Bronx, NY
- 10 Week Co-Ed Empowerment Workshops, Brooklyn's Children Museums
- YouthFest 2008
- YouthFest 2009
- YouthFest 2010, Saturday, September 25, 2010 at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. Topic: Let's Talk About Sex: Sexual Health, STI's, STDs, HIV/AIDS, Birth Control, Abstinence, Responsibility, Prevention, Sexual Pressure, and Teem Pregnancy.
Official Alliance Partners
- Girls Incorporated of New York City
- The Girl Scout Council of Greater New York
- The YMCA of Brooklyn
- Tomorrow Leaders, Inc.
- Holthouse Boys & Girls Club (Houston)
- Challengers Boys & Girls Club (Los Angeles)
- Whitehead Boys & Girls Club (Atlanta)
- FBR Boys & Girls Club (Washington DC)
Corporate Supporters
- VH1 Soul
- BET
- BET Rap-It-Up
- Universal Music Group
- Power 105.1 (NY)
- Power 106 (LA)
- Radio Disney
- Deutsche Bank
- The Walt Disney Company
- Washington Mystics
- Black Beat
- Right On!
- Coca-Cola
- Hasbro
- Mudd Jeans
- ABC Radio Networks
- Champs Sports
- The Princeton Review
- P&G
Hip Hop 4 Life Executive Team
Tamekia Flowers, Founder/Executive Director
Tanisha Tate, Program Director
Notes
External links
- BET Rap It Up
- We Can
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