BRAVE empowers young people with hands-on training and real-world experiences that build leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills while helping them step beyond their comfort zones to reach their full potential.
BRAVE creates ongoing community events and initiatives that bring people together to celebrate common ground and honor differences – ensuring everyone feels seen, heard, and valued.
BRAVE facilitates international exchanges for several U.S. Department of State social impact programs in Austin, promoting cross-cultural social innovation and diplomacy.
BRAVE supports a variety of services that help to promote healthy emotional, mental, and physical well-being based on participants and communties’ feedback and surveys.
The #MakeATXBRAVE Youth Spoken Word Challenge is a youth-organized spoken word competition powered by BRAVE Communities. Participants are challenged to craft and perform original spoken word pieces exploring civic engagement, democracy, community, and encouraging collective care in Austin communities.
*Age groups: 10-14, 15-18, 19-24
Create a poem, rap, speech, spoken word performance, or other original spoken piece that expresses one of the following prompts:
Sept. 13 – Applications & <4-minute video recording submissions of spoken word piece due.
Sept. 13-27 – Volunteer judges review submissions and select finalists in each age group.
Sept. 28 – Finalists of first round notified and invited to the next round of competition held at our Fall edition BRAVE Communities Connections.
Oct. 4 (afternoon) – Finalists perform and compete at BRAVE Communities Connection. The winner in each group will be decided and awarded at this event.Interested in being a volunteer judge?
