Commit to act!

As you dedicate more of yourself to changing the world, think about what moves you to act during this intense moment in history.

What draws you to the movement for racial and environmental justice?

Make a digital time capsule by clicking after the video below. Save your "why"  to remind your future self of what was important about this time.

For stories that will inspire and motivate your Time Capsule commitments, see our Spotlights page.

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Create your personal time capsule
You decide what will go into your action time capsule. Breathe will remind you to follow through on your pledges and save your good work in your time capsule each time you check off completed actions, to celebrate when you open it.
Make a time capsule
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View entries then VOTE for your favorites!

Follow #Vote4Hope, @HipHop4Change, and @BreatheForJustice

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Hosted by Hip Hop For Change and Breathe

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This is a call to action to amplify the voices of our communities and encourage people to get out the vote!

Watch the poetry, raps, spoken word pieces, and songs recorded  to Instagram for this contest, Oct. 5th-26th,  winners announced Nov. 2nd.

GRAND PRIZE - Recording Session & Artist Development Program at Hip Hop for Change Studios including half day of recording & mixing along with production coaching. $1000 value. Winner determined by a panel of judges.

AUDIENCE PRIZE - $500 cash. Winner chosen by audience votes.

The Audience Prize needs YOU, to pick your favorites!
You can vote more than once, so keep watching all month but don't wait to vote, either here or in the national election!

Go to our ELECTION page to check your voter registration, your voting info, and to help others vote.

For all the contest details click on the image above or choose Vote4Hope page under Contests at top.

VotE for your favorites

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Get Involved with Breathe

You're invited to help enact Breathe's vision.
If you feel inspired to perform or speak, offer your skills, connections, advice, donations, or to share this with people who would want to get involved, we wholeheartedly welcome you!
Click below to tell us about yourself and how you'd like to join the team.

Specific types of assistance Breathe needs now:

We invite you to join in any way that is aligned for you.
Perform or speak.
Offer your skills, connections, advice, donations.
Share this with people who would want to get involved.

Take the opportunity to shape this project with your experience and insight!

It is from our collective wisdom and the pooling of our brilliance, creativity, experience, and resources that we make our dreams into reality.
We share this in the spirit of Ubuntu, the Nguni Bantu term meaning
“I am because we are,"
reflecting the belief that a universal bond of sharing connects all humanity.

Specifically, we seek contributors to assist with:

Get Involved!
header graffiti image: artwork by Blaze Wiradharma for #PainttheCityBlack in Toronto, photo by Resa McConaghy