Urban Youth
Conservation

Empowering the next generation through nature, leadership, and community transformation.

UYC

Our Vision

Youth will have organized their own pathways to possibility and facilitate partnerships that increase their life chances with each coming generation.

Urban Youth Conservation (UYC) is a tax-exempt not-for-profit organization that provides the community with a complete youth intervention and enhancement program. UYC continues to be the premier provider of youth life skills, mental and physical development, citizen programs and seeks to make this experience available for all interested participants.

“UYC is organized and founded by men who spent much of their early lives as members of gangs.”

These men escaped that violent and unforgiving lifestyle and now share a calling to reclaim their community by undoing the patterns of gang violence that have remained strong in Minneapolis. UYC is uniquely positioned to reach gang-involved, high-risk youth because they have walked in their shoes and can walk alongside them as they follow the path to more positive and constructive roles in their communities.