2024-02-23T09:22:42-05:00 2023-08-31 Thomas Posey 1426 G Street SE Rear Washington DC 20003 990 2022-09-01 270062812 Words Beats and Life Inc WORD 2026671192 1525 Newton Street NW Washington DC 20010 Mazi Mutafa Executive Director 2024-02-23 false Mazi Mutafa XXX-XX-XXXX Thomas Posey P01956990 3012005410 2024-02-23 X 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Mazi Mutafa 1525 Newton Street NW Washington DC 20010 1939183 false X www.wblinc.org X 2003 Words Beats and Life is DC's longest running, dopest Hip-Hop based arts educational nonprofit. As a set of cultural practices and art forms with a global reach, Hip-Hop has demonstrated its power to transform the lives of young people around the world and right here in DC. 18 18 1 102 0 0 1187229 1393312 253146 545583 3 288 0 0 1440378 1939183 0 0 0 0 120011 211362 0 0 4817 1130903 1614840 1250914 1826202 189464 112981 235404 433923 14658 124553 220746 309370 X Words Beats and Life is DC's longest running, dopest Hip-Hop based arts educational nonprofit. As a set of cultural practices and art forms with a global reach, Hip-Hop has demonstrated its power to transform the lives of young people around the world and right here in the nation's capital. Our mission at WBL is to transform individual lives and communities through Hip-Hop culture in all its forms. false false 280384 Our Arts Education programming exposes students to new knowledge, techniques and methods, as well as provides opportunities to grow their knowledge and network through alternative winter and spring break activities. We also provide opportunities for young artists to practice what we teach through performances, and public art making, as well as encouraging these students to manage their own projects and events by participating in our Arts Management program. Our work in schools has been with young people in Middle School, High School and College, with participants ranging from 12-22. In community contexts, we work with people as young as 10 and with adults 23 and older. Despite popular misunderstandings about our culture, Hip-Hop is likely created, participated in, and celebrated by the most diverse set of people in terms of audiences, practitioners, supporters, and consumers. Our teachers, students, audiences, and selected master artists are diverse not just racially, ethnically, religiously, and economically but also in terms of age, gender, orientation, and ability status. Programs include the WBL Academy, Like a Boss: Arts Management Program, Walk It Like I talk It, Entrepreneurship Program. Finally we have our College and career mentorship program called College Material. 1350258 1630642 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 78 0 true 1 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false X 18 18 false false false false false false false true true false false false true true true true true true false false false false X X Words Beats and Life Inc 2026671192 1525 Newton Street NW Washington DC 20010 Jamila Sams Chair 3 X X 0 0 0 Kenysha Bartee First Vice Chair 2 X X 0 0 0 Ptosha Davis Second Vice Chair 2 X X 0 0 0 Elaine Kennedy Treasurer 2 X X 0 0 0 Naima McIntosh Secretary 2 X X 0 0 0 Folosade Omogun Member 2 X 0 0 0 William Hegwood Member 2 X 0 0 0 Aja Clark Member 2 X 0 0 0 Gloria Nauden Member 2 X 0 0 0 Saafir Rabb Member 2 X 0 0 0 Mark Lawrence Member 2 X 0 0 0 Timothy Anne Burnside Member 2 X 0 0 0 Dishan De Silva Member 2 X 0 0 0 Helen Bryant Member 2 X 0 0 0 Samantha Armstrong Member 2 X 0 0 0 David Schwed Member 2 X 0 0 0 Fillippo Rossie Member 2 X 0 0 0 Landon Jones Member 2 X 0 0 0 Mazi Mutafa Executive Director 40 X 110000 0 0 110000 0 0 false false false 813182 580130 371720 1393312 545583 545583 545583 288 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1939183 545583 0 0 110000 87056 22944 80867 80867 20495 4216 16279 57197 43774 13423 1045442 1040593 443 4406 154116 134962 19154 85369 71833 13161 375 5966 5966 40669 1439 39230 61817 61246 571 16325 16325 6238 6238 20794 4500 16294 Bank and Credit Card Processing Fees 5219 2321 2862 36 Equipment and Furniture 50556 50556 Printing Copying 28592 28173 419 Meal Food 15647 15647 20893 3459 17434 0 1826202 1630642 190743 4817 106903 51791 91330 268875 158788 45531 37171 113257 235404 433923 14658 44641 79912 14658 124553 X 81497 206725 220746 309370 235404 433923 X 112981 -24357 X false false false false false X 304398 388979 939851 1187229 1393312 4213769 0 0 304398 388979 939851 1187229 1393312 4213769 4213769 3 72 3 288 366 0 0 4214135 1249576 0.99990 1.00000 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990 Part VI Section B Line 12c The Executive Director is responsible for monitoring compliance with the conflict of interest policy. Any disclosed or potential issues are brought to the Board of Directors for discussion for an ultimate resolution. Form 990 Part IX Line 11g Outside Consultants Contractors $956,167, Other Professional Services $89,275 Total $1,045,442 Form 990 Schedule B Prior Year FY21-22 DCCAH Office of Latino Affairs was inadvertently overstated by $100k. The total contributed was $33k. Form 990 Part III Line 4b Centering Marginalized Voices: There is power in the margins. Power to innovate, create and tell stories that are new for many Americans. Our priority is to expand minds, knock down walls, and build bridges between communities. Our approach to this work is interdisciplinary, people of color and often women led. It has included theater, gallery shows, mural making, poetry performances, publishing, and documentary work. This work has allowed us to share the histories of people and places through the arts that would not ordinarily attend a hip-hop based event. Form 990 Part III Line 4b (continue) For the Culture: WBL creates work to reach outside the hip-hop community to continue to grow it across various demographics. We host events and create work that has the hip-hop community and the process of building community in person and virtually for hip-hop communities, locally, nationally and globally. This is arts for community building and expanding sake through culture. This work is critical considering how many people's knowledge of hip-hop ends at Rap music on the radio. This is our effort to showcase the culture in all its forms by lifting up the work of artists all over the world.. Form 990 Part III Line 4b (continue) Creative Employment: Work focuses on engaging members of the larger creative community, to share their knowledge and experience as guest speakers, mentors and potential employers. To that end WBL hosts a regional alternative spring break focused on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, and a national alternative Winter Break speaker series focused on the media arts. Each year we also host an annual Creative Economy Internship and Career Fair by partnering with Creative Non Profits in the DC metro area. Form 990 Part III Line 4b (continue) Cultural Diplomacy: Since 2010, words Beats and life has been working to send artists abroad, and bring artists from abroad to the US. These collaborations have taken the form of master classes, musical and dance performances, along with public art creation and offering scholarships to pay for primary schools for students in partner organizations abroad. We are working to make more of these collaborations more focused in commerce. We want to develop cooperative agreements that allow for greater exchange, and revenue generation for WBL and our international partners. Form 990 Part XI Line 8 The Prior Year adjustments