Chicago Hip-Hop Initiative is a non-profit organization who orperates with donation by you. Your donations support our efforts to promote the positive messages of self-empowerment and community re-building through hip-hop arts, language and culture. Your support goes a long way to help us fulfill our missions to:
Recognize, promote, and advocate the aesthetics of hip-hop culture in Chicago as a progressive, artistic, and socially conscious movement.
Celebrate the contributions of those individuals, organizations, and events, that have helped preserve and shape Chicago’s rich hip-hop community.
Educate and share with the general public, the orthodox practices of hip-hop as a positive artistic medium of creative self expression;
Dispel the mis-representations of hip-hop, revealing the truth about a culture that inspires, uplifts, and empowers young people to aim high;
And to showcase and demonstrate hip-hop arts throughout Chicago by way of events, forums, films, dialogue, exhibitions of dance, music, visual arts, poetry, and more.