is a globally-recognized, award-winning, youth-led social justice organization liberating and empowering historically-marginalized and under-served communities and youth to battle systems of oppression, trauma, violence, and poverty.
youth development as social justice.
“The young always inherit the revolution.”
-Huey P. Newton
With 15+ active programs spanning across California, nationwide, and globally, we center youth leadership as the backbone of movements for equity, justice, and collective liberation. We have delivered programming to 400,000+ youth and allies (including 171+ countries), mobilized 270,000+ community members statewide and across the globe, successfully directed 280+ in-person conferences, summits, forums, workshops, campaigns, and grassroots projects, and built a robust network of 3,200+ BIPOC, immigrant/refugee, and LGBTQ+ youth mentees and 250+ volunteers. With a coalition of 185+ non-profit, public sector, and philanthropic partners nationwide, we dedicate ourselves to challenging, reimagining, and dismantling unjust power systems in a vision of an anti-oppressive, anti-carceral, resourced, and liberating future for society’s most vulnerable populations.
We uplift the socioeconomic development, social and civic empowerment, and life conditions of systems- and trauma-impacted communities of color and marginalized and under-served young people, while serving as one of California's most preeminent grassroots organizing networks led 100% by youth. Our core team consists of majority-BIPOC, young women/femme, immigrant/refugee, first-generation low income, and LGBTQ+ student activists spanning Sacramento, Chico, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Southern California, San Diego, Baltimore, New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and Oregon to advance intersectional movement-building, racial justice, restorative justice and violence intervention, health equity, immigrant rights, children and family empowerment, QTBIPOC and LGBTQ+ liberation, and impactful leadership for young people of color. With particular attention to our four focus regions (Sacramento, the Bay Area, Los Angeles/SoCal, and San Diego), we roll out intentional, year-long, in-person programs through TRP’s deep community partnerships, youth facilitation, and direct service.
The Reclamation Project has advised, procured, and supported the deployment of nearly $20 million dollars in grants and private and government partnerships to empower youth and establish life-affirming resource networks in historically-underrepresented communities, including directly raising and reinvesting $700,000+ towards multicultural civic advocacy and leadership development programs for young leaders of racial minority, marginalized gender identity, low-income, immigrant/refugee, and other traditionally-overlooked backgrounds.
$18.5+ million advised & secured
Transforming funding equity with a youth social justice and community vision.
400,000+ youth & allies educated & engaged
Inspiring through our unwavering mission—with programming locally, globally, and everywhere in-between.
270,000+ community members mobilized
Immigrant rights movements, youth activist demonstrations, community empowerment, racial equity, & grassroots advocacy.
171+ countries reached
Working with global NGOs and the United Nations—as liberation, youth leadership, and collaborative changemaking knows no borders.
3,200+ BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant/refugee youth mentees
Cultivating people-power face to face—in-person through our schools, neighborhoods, and spaces where young people are directly.
185+ impact coalition partners
Leading collaborations and coalition-building for this generation and the next, across California, nationwide, globally and intergenerational.
The Reclamation Project today remains a leading youth-powered changemaker enabling lasting sociopolitical, justice-focused, and civic progress. Notable recognitions include that by the Princeton University Prize in Race Relations, United Nations Geneva, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, United Nations Economic and Social Council and Youth Forum, UCLA Luskin School for Public Affairs, International Organization for Youth and International Youth Conference, UC Davis School of Law, Brandon Harrison Award for Youth Leadership and Youth Organizing, American Civil Liberties Union, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Californians for Justice, Civics Unplugged, California Youth Rising Network, The California Endowment, Hmong Innovating Politics, Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities, and Elevate Youth California.
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