Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

Project Purpose This project will create a language revitalization camp for youths and their language mentors. This project builds upon an event that was initiated by AICLS in 2021, an online Young Leadership Development Conference, that was then developed by a team of youth language leaders into an expanded year-long mentorship program to empower youth language leaders of California Indian communities.

General Operating Support

AICL’s 2023 programming including the Breath of Life Online Symposium, the Language is Life Gathering, and the Master-Apprentice Language project

Support for the 2022 Breath of Life Archival Institute’s cultural linguists honoraria.

In the coming year, we intend to improve our organizational capacity. We will accomplish this by increasing our online presence, evaluating efficacy of our programs, and utilizing funds to increase staffing. This will enable us to reach communities statewide, make and retain meaningful partnerships, and stabilize program management.