Our goal is to connect, rebuild natural habitats, and restore faith in the surrounding communities. Rescue MI Nature Now, Inc. is a Michigan nonprofit organization that is dedicated to developing green spaces within the community and providing nature based educational programs. RMNN rescues and activates neglected parcels, transforming them into productive green spaces.

In the process, we engage the youth with our program, Sustainable Youth Stewards, which provides a work opportunity for youth participants. Participants lead efforts in transforming greenspaces across communities. In the process they learn translatable, S.A.F.E. skills (Sustainability, Agriculture, Finance, Entrepreneurship). Transformations have taken many forms including various types of gardens, food farms, wildlife habitats, community spaces and more.

The framework of Sustainable Youth Stewards was developed to address Detroit’s Sustainability Action Agenda (SAA)

As such, our vision directly aligns to the outcomes of the SAA:

• Detroit communities are clean, healthy, and S.A.F.E. environments to live, work, learn, and play in

• Detroiters have a pathway to stability and a dignified standard of living through high quality education and workforce development.
• Detroiters can access the resources and knowledge to enable them to use less energy, water, and waste.
• Support and enable the productive use of vacant land to benefit the neighborhood.