ADVOCACY

Ruta del Jefe seeks to create lifelong advocates for cycling and the borderlands. We Do this through a community fundraiser and an advocacy training seminar.

HELP REACH OUR GOAL TO RAISE $45,000.

FUNDRAISER

Each participant must fundraise (or donate) at least $300 through the RDJ community fundraiser as part of their registration obligations. There are prizes for the highest fundraisers. The fundraiser allows participants to educate themselves from the RDJ resource list and share their knowledge and experience with their family, friends, or community. 

The beneficiaries of the 2024 fundraiser will be Cuenca Los Ojos, Borderlands Restoration Network, Frontera de Cristo, Por La Defensa del Rio Casas Grandes, and N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation. 

The Oath

New for 2024, Ruta del Jefe is partnering with the Outdoorist Oath to wrap up our weekend of education and adventure through a ZERO-BS experience that teaches a model to approach allyship for the planet, inclusion, and adventure. During the workshop, you’ll reflect and learn tools to create a unique plan to take action for Planet, Inclusion, and Adventure. After the workshop, participants have the opportunity to take The Outdoorist Oath.

BENEFICIARIES

  • Cuenca Los Ojos

    Cuenca Los Ojos, meaning “Watershed of the Springs”, is a 121,000-acre (49,000-ha) protected area in the Sky Islands of Sonora, Mexico. Located directly along the United States-Mexico border, CLO stewards the unique desert wetlands, open grasslands, and soaring mountains of the Madrean Archipelago. They are restoring and rewilding these once-degraded ranch lands by repairing waterways and reviving the natural processes of herbivory, predation, pollination, fire, carbon sequestration, and nutrient cycling. Today, CLO is home again to jaguars, ocelots, black bears, beavers, and other threatened and endangered species.

  • Borderlands Restoration Network

    Borderlands Restoration Networks' mission is to partner to grow a restorative economy by rebuilding healthy ecosystems, restoring habitat for plants and wildlife, and reconnecting our border communities to the land through shared learning. We envision connected borderlands where rivers flow, plants, wildlife, and cultures thrive, and communities develop an inclusive restorative economy where a sense of place inspires a sense of purpose.

  • Frontera De Cristo

    Frontera de Cristo seeks to build relationships that demonstrate God’s will and build bridges rather than walls. So many people are migrating, seeking refuge, and fleeing extreme poverty and violence. Frontera de Cristo’s goal is to address their immediate needs and the root causes of mass migration, creating safe and prosperous opportunities that allow people to stay in the land they call home if they so choose. Through the building of community-driven partnerships with ministries and secular organizations in Douglas and Agua Prieta, Frontera de Cristo offers shelter, resources, education, emotional support, medical care, and new solutions.

  • Nacion Ndee/Ndee/Nnee/Nde

    Nowhi we the N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation are a group of people with our own ethnic identity, customs, traditions, language, beliefs and religion, and that like every living society, has adapted to the context of their time and space. Those of us who form the N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation live in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua and Coahuila de Zaragoza under organized communities, which have representatives named “nant’an”. In each community and in an organized way, the N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation fights for being included in the list of the nation’s indigenous peoples, which has been achieved so far in Sonora and Coahuila de Zaragoza; our nation is constantly working to revive our language, dressing, traditions, ceremonies, songs, and dances, that were lost as a consequence of the persecution that our ethnic group faced in the n'dee bikeyaa/n'nee bikiyaa/ndé miikeyaa, which is the southern portion of our territory and that nowadays is the north of Mexico.

  • Por La Defensa el Rio de Casas Grande

    Por la Densa del Rio Casas Grandes is a collective of activists fighting against the construction of a dam in the Casas Grandes river, which feeds a big part of agricultural and natural land in northwestern Chihuahua, near where Cuenca Los Ojos is located. It’s formed by citizens who are concerned about the way this project has been approved and promoted, and the effects the dam would have on the natural environment and human settlements.

LEARN MORE ABOUT Cuenca Los Ojos, JAGUARS, Border Wall, HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, ROSEMONT MINE, THE SKY ISLANDS REGION, THE RUTA DEL JEFE EVENT, Sky Islands Odyssey Project