: Where Entrpreneurial Dreams Become Reality

YOUR SUPPORT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Our Mission

To empower youth from under-resourced communities through enhanced proactive, real-world experiential programs filled with life skills education and the spirit of entrepreneurship that supports the emotional, social, and ethical development of students.

Our Vision

Every BossUp participant acquire the business and life skills required to turn their dream into a plan, activate it and achieve the first goal of every entrepreneur which is to start their own business.

TESTIMONIALS

Featuring BossUp Coordinator Genevieve Carvil-Harris, North Miami Vice Mayor Kassandre Timothe and BossUp Entrepreneurship Bootcamp participants Peggy and Rudens.

About Us

The Rap Snacks Foundation’s Boss Up initiative is a real world experiential entrepreneurship program that walks participants from the point of their passions and dreams to a business plan, activation and achievement.

PRESIDENT | CEO

Wise Intelligent, President of the Rap Snacks Foundation, leverages three decades of community activism, experience, connections and insight in the Hip Hop industry into developing and implementing financial literacy, entrepreneurship and community economic development programs in our communities. Originally from Trenton, New Jersey, Wise Intelligent is an internationally known artist/activist, songwriter/producer, social entrepreneur and the front man of the critically acclaimed and legendary Hip hop trio known to the world as the Poor Righteous Teachers. 

Our Story

The “spirit of entrepreneurship” is the ability to creatively find solutions for the various problems that exist in society – an act of changing the world by first changing one’s self. For Rap Snacks founder James Lindsay, our youth are some of the most innovative and creative thinkers in our society, and youth culture (including, but not limited to Hip Hop) – one of the most dynamic, and powerfully diverse vehicles for social good. From the time he launched his Rap Snacks brand of snacks in 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he has sought—everyday—to inspire, challenge and empower young people from under-resourced communities like the one in which he was raised to tap into the power of their youth through entrepreneurship and help them reach their full potential.

Success Stories

The Rap Snacks Foundation’s Boss Up initiative is a real world experiential entrepreneurship program that walks participants from the point of their passions and dreams to business plan, activation and achievement. By giving them the opportunities, they deserve, The Rap Snacks Foundation believes, like James, every child can build a better future—and become all they were created to be. The Rap Snacks BOSS UP entrepreneurship program has successfully trained young men and women of under-resourced communities to take responsibility for, and control of, their own financial futures. Helping them realize their full potential, and secure for themselves, families, and communities a brighter tomorrow.

Our Impact

BossUp Foundation: Empowering Over 5,000 Future Entrepreneurs and Leaders Across 20 Cities Nationwide

Through our innovative workshops, mentorship programs, and hands-on experiences, the Rap Snacks Foundation is equipping the next generation with the entrepreneurial skills to succeed. With an exemplary satisfaction rate among over 500 participants across our programs, we are committed to fostering a community of young, dynamic leaders ready to make lasting impacts.