Movimiento (Nevada City) Movimiento was awarded $12,000 for its RUYEL program: Rural-Urban Youth Environmental Leadership. Through this program, urban and rural youth spend time in each other’s home communities, to exchange experiences and learn strategies for environmental, personal, and social change. Youth from the Bay Area and Nevada County will share knowledge about local food/farming, watershed, cultural, and socio-environmental issues through activities such as wilderness excursions, food and farming, indigenous youth initiatives, and the arts.

$10,000 to support Rural-Urban Youth Environmental Leadership (RUYEL), in which underserved youth from the Bay Area and Nevada County work together to learn about watershed, food/farming, and socio-environmental issues through wilderness excursions, indigenous youth Initiatives, land & crafts workshops, and conferences. Urban and rural youth spend time in each other’s home communities, to exchange experiences and strategies for environmental and social change.

$10,000 towards launching an ongoing series of Indigenous youth initiatives, wilderness excursions, arts & land craft workshops, and youth summits for under-served youth ages 13-18 in the Bay Area to create urban-rural projects that connect young people to land, food and nature.