Curriculum Concepts International (CCI) is family-owned company dedicated to the development of educational content. It was founded in the 1980s by Reginald Powe and the late Colleen Jones with the mission of reaching the students that traditional educational publishers tend to forget —kids with difficult socioeconomic backgrounds, struggling students, and English-language learners.

For over five decades, the company has conceptualized, planned, and produced hundreds of educational and training programs. As a minority and veteran-owned business, CCI has a special and compelling interest in addressing the learning needs of all minorities, particularly those at the lower end of the achievement gap.

Today, CCI is one of the leading developers of educational and training programs. Our team has enjoyed great success in providing these services to corporations, private businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and school districts, as well as school and college publishers.

The Rap Snacks Foundation was born with the 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. For Rap Snacks founder James Lindsay, our youth are some of the most innovative and creative thinkers in our society, and youth culture –especially hip-hop culture– is one of the most dynamic and powerfully diverse vehicles for social good.

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 young people the opportunities they deserve, the Rap Snacks Foundation believes that every child can build a better future—and become all they were created to be. 

In 2023, the Rap Snacks Foundation partnered with CCI to find a way to help at-risk students in under-resourced communities. The result of the partnership is the BossUp Entrepreneurship Program, an initiative focused on empowering youth with experiential and life-skills not taught in the classroom.