Lil Durk announced the development of the Durk Banks Foundation in partnership with Amazon Music. Additionally, the rapper is offering two students from Chicago a $50,000 scholarship to attend Howard University.
The first two recipients of this scholarship will be announced today during Lil Durk’s performance at Howard University’s 2023 Spring Festival.
These two students were selected from 20 participants in his HBCU College & Career Readiness Cohort Program.
Lil Durk donates $250,000 to Howard’s GRACE grant
In addition to two individual scholarships of $50,000, Lil Durk will also donate $250,000 to Howard’s GRACE Grant, a program created to help students in need of tuition assistance, according to the University.
The grant was established in 2014 by President Frederick. Furthermore, this grant is aimed at students with the greatest financial need who want to stay on campus and graduate in the same class.
Since the start of the GRACE Grant, recipient retention has increased by 15% and the four-year graduation rate is 78% — a 32% increase over those who received no money from the program.
I received the GRACE SUPPORT during my last two years at Howard and it was a HAPPY WORD! https://t.co/9P0XSU03Sw
— ki. (@keptlikeki) October 13, 2021
Lil Durk keeps giving back through his Neighborhood Heroes Foundation
Lil Durk is no stranger to giving and keeping to her community! In 2022, he announced the launch of his Career Readiness program through his Neighborhood Heroes Foundation. The goal is to change the lives of 20 students.
Through this program, the students had the opportunity to visit HBCU university. Furthermore, they can also visit various institutions in Atlanta and Alabama. Furthermore, several of them were invited to New York City to meet with executives from Sony, Alamo Records, and the New York Knicks, where they could follow seasoned professionals.
One of the students, Semaje Vaughn, gave Durk flowers. Vaughn says he had no hope for his future until he joined the show.
“I don’t believe in anything, but being able to have opportunities like this is a huge step up from where I used to be.”
Lil Durk & The Neighborhood Heroes donates nearly 30,000 bottles of hand sanitizer to inmates and staff in Illinois
If that wasn’t enough, Lil Durk even has his founding partner with Chicago Votes. The two entities distributed 29,000 bottles of hand sanitizer to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), as previously reported by The Shade Room. The distribution has aided inmates and facility staff in keeping their hands clean as COVID-19 rates rise again.
Additionally, it was revealed that the problem had been going on for months after an acute water crisis was reported inside one of Illinois’ largest prisons.
If you know Durk, you know that dedication is in his blood, from being on the front lines feeding Chicago’s essential workers during the COVID pandemic to delivering supplies. learning for primary school students. He is certainly a valued voice of this generation.
