Making Noise Using Hip-Hop Culture
In notoriously poor Syracuse, New York, home to the highest concentration of poverty among African Americans and Latinos, the streets can be a means of survival for teens.
The struggle is real. But, so is a movement to make the change; to remix unpleasant statistics no one wants to talk about.
The Good Life Youth Foundation is making noise using hip-hop culture as its stage to reach these at-risk youth.
Programs and Initiatives

R.E.A.L. Success
Understand business and ownership, as well as other paths that attain “higher than minimum-wage jobs”

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Impact
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City of Syracuse gives $250K to hip hop youth center
The Hip Hop Center for Youth Entrepreneurship is one of two projects receiving $250,000. The Good Life Youth Foundation is redeveloping a dilapidated and graffiti-covered 38,000-square-foot former dairy building at 215 Tully St. on the Near West Side to be used as a youth center with a focus on music, art and food. The $9…
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Colleagues at STEM at Blodgett remember ‘Miss Aisha’
Known fondly as Miss Aisha, she was one half of The Good Life Foundation team, and Travis McLeod was the … Colleagues at STEM at Blodgett remember ‘Miss Aisha’ Read More »