hold up! that’s not even all yet…
For the full details of our incredible community milestones that didn’t fit into this gallery, stay tuned for our 2024 Impact Report launch. Follow @trp_916 for updates!
2024 has been a record year…
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For our volunteer-driven Community Food Justice Program, The Reclamation Project @ 916 held a youth-powered, summer meal preparation and distribution event that delivered 200+ sandwiches and 200+ additional snack items to Sacramento community members facing food insecurity. Established in April 2023, the Community Food Justice Program is an evolution of our mutual aid efforts since the founding of our organization. Beginning in 2021, The Reclamation Project @ 916 has provided nearly 4,000 meals to our unhoused neighbors at encampments, free fridges, and other resource networks meeting direct need.
august 24, 2024
For R(e)volution, a statewide convening mobilizing, activating, and educating youth to shape their own futures, The Reclamation Project @ 916 served as the California Center for Civic Participation’s sole youth-led partner and advisor, ensuring youth voices were at the forefront of the convening’s goals in transforming ideas of civics to empower grassroots youth efforts and centering youth activism in California civic engagement work. The Reclamation Project @ 916 additionally conducted strategic community-centered outreach to a cumulative audience of 5,000 people across the state, as well as curated a select youth activist panel featuring leaders from Sacramento and the Bay Area. The event also served as an in-person meet-and-greet for the 2024 Cohort of the California Youth Power-Building Fellowship, a statewide leadership program mentoring student activists to enact long-lasting social justice efforts in their local communities, founded by The Reclamation Project @ 916 and coordinated by TRP@916’s leaders thus far, while expanding our statewide coalition hosting future cohorts in various California regions. The Fellowship has reinvested $20,000+ in power-building grants to youth changemakers and educational resources and mentorship of California’s foremost non-profit executives, advocates, and public officials.
august 27, 2024
As part of the nationwide Summer of Heat on Wall Street solidarity movement based in New York City, The Reclamation Project @ 916 partnered with Fridays for Futures, Palestinian Public Health, Sunrise Movement Sacramento, and 350 Sacramento to mobilize diverse and interfaith community members in a fight against fossil fuel financing. Collaborating with Palestinian Public Health, a global movement for equity, justice, and Palestinian liberation and representation in public health issues, the effort centered anti-imperialism and climate advocacy as protecting human rights from systems actively destructing our planet and dehumanizing the world’s marginalized peoples. The Reclamation Project @ 916 united the community together in a youth-led discussion on our capacity to instill change and commit to environmental activism for a better future.
august 17, 2024
This summer, The Reclamation Project @ 916 brought out its leading youth organizers to a multi-day, connection-focused leadership development and socio-political education retreat, resourced by Asian American Liberation Network and Amado Khaya Initiative. Developed by TRP@916’s youth Founder and Administrative Leaders, AALN, and Dr. Robyn Rodriguez of AKI, the intensive delivered specialized workshops to 22+ of The Reclamation Project @ 916’s highly-involved youth advocates on power-building, networking, sustainable leadership and long-term movement growth, community accountability, and empowered youth-led roles within the Social Justice Ecosystem. The retreat concluded with a trip to the Remagination Farm in Lake County, California, focusing on environmental justice and reimagining systems and youth livehihoods.
july 22-24, 2024
Abolition & Me: Stonewalls Legacy united 55+ youth of color, queer and trans youth, and allies for a community workshop and youth-led social justice forum, dissecting abolitionist history and examining the brutality, oppression, and injustice of the prison and mass incarceration system, specifically pertaining to marginalized young people in California. Led by The Reclamation Project @ 916 and hosted in collaboration with Elevate Youth California, Decarcerate Sacramento, Sacramento LGBT Community Center, and Social Justice PolitiCorps, this youth convening brought together folks from various grassroots communities across the region to discuss and challenge carceral systems pervading today’s educational and public health solutions, as well as to propose life-affirming solutions that resourced youth and community needs through sustainable means. Catered food, educational lessons and zines, intentional listening sessions, and a resource fair featuring multiple local organizations created a powerful space dedicated to reimagining and rebuilding a just and liberating society.
july 20, 2024
This June, The Reclamation Project @ 916 celebrated Pride Month with our community by centering collective, youth and LGBTQ+ liberation. On May 28, we were honored by Sacramento City Council Member Mai Vang in formally passing the City of Sacramento’s historic Pride Month Resolution. The Reclamation Project @ 916 was recognized at City Hall for our grassroots advocacy empowering and organizing BIQTPOC youth and communities, alongside four beloved community partners: Trans Queer Youth Collective, Sacramento Filipinx LGBTQIA+, Decolonize Market, and Love Liberated. On June 1, The Reclamation Project @ 916’s youth leaders facilitated a grassroots advocacy and community empowerment listening session for a convening of 50+ Sacramento City Unified School District students and staff, supporting the annual Be Bold, Be You Conference. Lastly, throughout spring and summer 2024, The Reclamation Project @ 916 served as a sponsor and youth-led organizing partner for the third annual Elk Grove Pride: Liberation Means Everybody, which took place on June 22, uniting ~1,000 community members for a day of love, celebration, and social justice.
may & june 2024
Youth Power Festival 2024: Creative Healing Against Empire brought together 200+ young folks across the community in united joy, strength, and resilience as we build purpose beyond systems of oppression. Leading collaboration with the historic Washington Neighborhood Center and Decolonize Market, partnering with 30+ community-based businesses, the Youth Power Festival featured a local market with thrifts, arts & crafts, jewelry, local eats, and so much more. Attendees enjoyed a day of performances, creative healing workshops facilitated by licensed, culturally-informed and grassroots-based social workers, an R&B yoga and meditation flow led by femme and women of color, a social justice art build for solidarity with Palestine, and various other collaborative, interactive youth activities, including tie-dye, tote bag painting, banner-making, and block printing.
april 21, 2024
Another event as part of our Community Food Justice Program, youth organizers and volunteers, as well as community members in solidarity, gathered to prepare and distribute 600+ meals to Sacramento’s unhoused folks at encampments, free fridges and pantries, and other resource networks meeting direct need.
march 24, 2024
The 2024 Northern California Youth Racial and Economic Justice Summit brought together 200 participants across 35+ student associations and a statewide coalition of 60+ youth-serving grassroots, social justice, advocacy, civic engagement, health, arts, and education organizations in a united mission for youth equity, solidarity, and liberation. Led by The Reclamation Project @ 916 in partnership with the Sacramento County Youth Commission, local movement leaders, and various social change entities throughout the state, the Northern California Youth Racial and Economic Justice Summit is an annual, youth-centered conference advocating for liberating, anti-carceral, anti-oppression, youth-serving approaches to public policy, education, grassroots services, community organizing and activism, cultural programs, and more, while amplifying marginalized youth voices and lived experiences. Attendees enjoyed catered meals, passionate keynote speaking segments and panels, youth work-groups tackling community issues, a versatile community resource fair, the grand launch of the Sacramento County Youth Bill of Rights, meet-and-greets with public leaders, and so much more. The Northern California Youth Racial and Economic Justice Summit is the first 100% youth-run social justice conference serving across Sacramento County. Learn about this event here!
february 25, 2024
At the annual Martin Luther King Jr. March drawing tens of thousands of people across northern California each year, The Reclamation Project @ 916’s youth partnered with Answer Sacramento, Youth 4 Palestine Sac, Sac Stands With Palestine, Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestine, and Sacramento PSL, assembling to amplify MLK Jr’s radical legacy against militarism, imperialism, white supremacy, and empire. With chants, rallying with signs, on community drums, children, families, and people of all ages showed out to demand ceasefire, a permanent halt to U.S. military aid for Israel, and an end to occupation, apartheid, and colonization for Palestine. Liberate all oppressed lands and peoples!
january 15, 2024
Moment of a Movement: A Night for the People was our end-of-year gala of 2023 uniting 60+ guests and community partners. With live song, dance, and spoken-word poetry performances, delicious catered dinner and dessert, a glimpse into our organization’s impact, liberation-vision-building into 2024, a grand launch of our latest print magazines issue, gifts, music, atmosphere, and so much more, this gala brought together youth, organizers, and guests across our numerous partner organizations for a night of joy and unity. Guests were treated with free copies of our print magazines and great local Southern Cajun, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and more cuisines, along with a selection of baked goods. While recognizing the efforts upon efforts ahead, we celebrate our shared strides together and emphasize, once again, that revolutionary optimism and community keeps our work strong. The Reclamation Project @ 916 thanks everyone for making this year so special, and for allowing us to bear our torch for a better world.
december 15, 2023
Our November 2023 Community Sandwich & Snack Pack Making yielded over twelve hundred food packages. What a fabulous way to end off the Community Food Justice Initiative for this year! Special thanks to TAG’s Community Table and all the Sacramento mutual aid groups that helped us distribute over two thousand meals to unhoused encampments, pantries, and free fridges throughout the entire city.
november 22, 2023
Abolition 101, hosted alongside Decarcerate Sacramento, was an interactive and transformative policy advocacy workshop, focusing on abolitionist history and anti-carceral community care, bringing together 65+ participants. Exploring the origins and modern-day imperative of prison abolition, especially amidst the rise in state-manufactured violence against people of color, unhoused folks, tenants, the poor and working-class, and numerous other marginalized groups within Sacramento County and beyond, we gathered the community to voice their most pressing needs for genuinely life-affirming services and institutions. Lively discussion, food, gifts, zines, political education, art, & social justice organizing concepts practiced through collective learning activities generated some of the most beautiful moments, reenergizing our goals for people-serving policy. Thank you to Decarcerate Sacramento for allowing us to bear the torch at the forefront of Abolition 101!
september 30, 2023
Serving 300+ families as of 2023, Supplies for Solidarity is an annual, back-to-school resource distribution and County-wide campaign mitigating the insufficient access to educational resources of BIPOC low-income communities and under-funded schools, delivering mutual aid to youth of color and working class folks. Our 2023 campaign included two distribution sites that equitably met the needs of 175+ BIPOC and/or low-income families, and featured qualitative surveying methods to assess our community’s material conditions. This year, our youth organizers raised $12,000+ in 3 months for this campaign, and led collaboration with 60+ school campuses, Neighbor Program, Sac Kids First, Decarcerate Sacramento, Black n’ Brown Unity, and Sacramento Public Library for our largest mutual aid effort yet.
september 2-3, 2023
