The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation Partners with Get Schooled to Launch Hip Hop ACT

Collaboration! This is the name of the game, if you follow us on Twitter and tune in to our #BCGNonprofitTips then you know we’re always preaching collaborating with other nonprofits and organizations, it’s a win-win. Two of our favorite organizations have done just that. In an effort to improve the nation’s high school graduation rate and encourage higher education, The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation has teamed with the Get Schooled Foundation to launch Hip Hop ACT, a national rap contest to get students thinking about the ACT and SAT college entry exams.

The Get Schooled Foundation is a national independent non-profit founded by Viacom and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at using media and messengers of pop culture to engage students and help lower the national high school drop-out rate, while at the same time encouraging higher education.

Students nationwide will be writing their best rhymes and posting on the Hip Hop ACT discussion board at www.getschooled.com.  All submissions must use at least two of the four posted ACT words in their raps to qualify. The words must be used correctly to be considered and winners will be selected under the discretion of the Get Schooled Foundation. The last date for submission is Friday December 13, 2013.

The top prize for Best Rhyme will receive a Hip Hop set that includes a pair of Monster DNA headphones  and a Tupac Shakur Legacy book. The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation and Get Schooled will collaboratively select the winner for the top prize. Prizes for 2 additional winners in the second round will be Monster DNA headphones – and will be selected by The Get Schooled Foundation.

The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation is a non-profit based in Stone Mountain, GA aimed at providing quality arts education and training for youth. Tupac found creative vocal & written expression as a teenager at The Baltimore School of The Arts high school. Today his writings are on display at The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library as The Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection.

“We’re very excited to partner with Bill & Melinda Gates’ Get Schooled initiative to address America’s education crisis at a time when the national high school dropout is extremely high and even high in urban areas, approaching 70% for Black males. It’s ingenious to use media and pop culture messengers to reach young people on education today – because we have to meet them where they are to engage them. And Tupac is the only Hip Hop artist I know – who has courses at Berkeley and Harvard University,” said LaTonja I. Muhammad Ali, Development Director for TASF.

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