About The Semilla Project
Our Mission
Our mission is to organize intergenerationally with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) through a culturally affirming, land-based learning approach. We are dedicated to advancing economic, environmental, and political prosperity through leadership development, advocacy and policy work, and narrative change.
Our Vision
At TSP we will nurture the next generation of global BIPOC leaders by building a home for our authentic selves where we can ground in ancestral knowledge, share our lived experiences, and transform these gifts into tools and skills that allow our communities to grow, thrive, and sustain themselves.
Our Organizational Grounding
Our Pillars Guiding Our Transformative Work
Strengthening Our Movement's Frontline
We fuel issue campaigns, governance efforts, and education of policymakers and educators to ensure the victories we attain are implemented well. Fostering accountable representation and promoting civic participation ensures the voices of our communities are amplified.
Cultivating and Transforming Leaders
We empower individuals to challenge systems of oppression and become agents of change using mentorship and companionship. Through scalable training, we unleash the power of networking and collaboration—cultivating leaders who are effective and resilient.
Deepening Indigeneity with Land- Based Learning
We use land-based curricula and outdoors programs to build self-identity and wellness as a foundation for civic action, climate justice work, and environmental stewardship. Youth develop technical, personal, and interpersonal skills while camping, hiking, and climbing.
Revolutionizing Economic Development Models
We provide underrepresented communities with avenues to outdoor industries by training and incentivizing BIPOC youth as outdoor guides, instructors, and educators. We support scalable climate justice initiatives that elevate local communities’ regenerative economies.
Transforming Media Narratives and Building Power
We believe in the power of stories. We shift media narratives by amplifying new voices within our communities, celebrating our connection to the land as a cultural heritage, and expanding our vision’s reach in community narratives, both online and offline.
Youth Leadership Development & Transformative Movement.
Our Programming Overview
SemiYA!
Focuses on Youth Activation through outdoors, land-based learning, and wellness with healing and grounding practices and a curricula connecting participants to identity, culture, and each other. BIPOC youth participate in no-cost climbing days, three-day backpacking trips, and three- and ten-day outdoors intensives.
Cosecha Forward
A mentorship program connecting BIPOC professionals with BIPOC youth. We engage BIPOC youth in 1:1 and small group educational mentorships. Youth are empowered as both learners and leaders and shape programming decisions on their own behalf.
The Return
An excursion to the highest volcanic summit in North America, Citlaltepetl (Mexico). The Return includes mountaineering leadership training and climate change impact education led by descendants of the original inhabitants of Mexico and New Mexico.
Youth Power!
A program to educate youth in advocacy and movement building for issues directly impacting their communities, public lands, nature, and wellbeing.
Re/Generation
A cross-racial coalition of six organizations that prepares youth leaders to tackle justice issues in their own regions. The effort shifts the public narrative to center BIPOC communities and accelerates a movement toward a sustainable and just economy.
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