Jonathan “Chaka” Mahone is an educator and hip-hop artist-turned-nonprofit-pioneer with a passion for giving, and he has created a model of raising funds known as “Giving to the Givers.” Mahone created the concept to help uplift and support people in his community, in Austin, Texas, who support other people through the services they provide.

That’s social workers, service workers, artists, educators, activists, civic workers and caretakers. “I just think these people are the best people on the planet, and we don’t value them, but what can we do to make sure these people are taken care of since they take care of us? We can do something,” Mahone told EBONY.

It started with Mahone giving $200 to friends here and there out of pocket, and after about a year of that, it blossomed into DAWA (“m

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