News & Updates
April 7, 2025
When Crisis Hits, Community Rises: Supporting Burner Disaster Response
Project: Burners Responding to Hurricane Helene (Asheville, North Carolina):Disaster Response and Preparedness //
March 12, 2025
Burner Disaster Response Working to Help Community Recover
Disaster Response and Preparedness //
February 14, 2025
Exciting Progress at Kakuma Refugee Camp Food Forest
Project: Permaculture Design Course: 2022 Microgrant UpdateEnvironment and Sustainability // Refugee and Migration Support //
January 8, 2025
Burner Gear Giveback (BGG): 2024 Micro-grant update
Project: Burner Gear GivebackHousing and Homelessness //
December 16, 2024
Prototyping Biochar & the Start Towards Regenerative Agriculture
Environment and Sustainability //
December 6, 2024
Burning Man Theme Camp Organizers form Burner Disaster Response (BDR)
Project: Burners Responding to Hurricane Helene (Asheville, North Carolina):Disaster Response and Preparedness //
December 5, 2024
BWB Colombia: Uplifting Communities and the Environment, One Project at a Time
Community Initiatives //
October 30, 2024
Ciudad Peronia Featured in a New Film
Project: Peronia Adolescente: 2019 Community Microgrant UpdateArts and Culture // Children and Youth //
October 29, 2024
BeLoved Asheville is seeking RVs
Project: Burners Responding to Hurricane Helene (Asheville, North Carolina):Disaster Response and Preparedness //
October 16, 2024
‘Put Your Head Down, Help Each Other Out’: Inside Asheville’s Helene Response
Project: Burners Responding to Hurricane Helene (Asheville, North Carolina):
October 16, 2024
Round Two for the Maynards
Project: Burners Responding to Hurricane Helene (Asheville, North Carolina):Disaster Response and Preparedness //
October 3, 2024
Asheville/WNC Resources
Project: Burners Responding to Hurricane Helene (Asheville, North Carolina):Disaster Response and Preparedness //
July 23, 2024
BWB Corpus Christi Celebrates 10 Years of Service
Project: Hurricane Harvey Relief EffortCommunity Development //
July 20, 2024
Watch: Medicine Garden & Haba Update
Project: Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Museum Garden Engagement: 2022 Microgrant UpdateCommunity Development // Indigenous Issues and Sovereignty //
April 19, 2024
Winners Announced: 2024 Burners of New Zealand & Australia (BONZA) Civic Ignition Grant
November 2, 2023
BWB Worldwide Call: Nourishing Resilience Preparing for Disaster
Disaster Response and Preparedness // Food Access and Scarcity //
July 26, 2023
Actually, You Can — Lessons from 3 Years of Hauling with Electric Vehicles for Burning Man
Environment and Sustainability //
July 13, 2023
Fourth School Initiates Bee Safe Program
Project: Bee SafeChildren and Youth // Education and Skill Development //
June 13, 2023
Native Tree Planting Day Takes Place in Colombian Paramos
Project: The GerminatorEnvironment and Sustainability //
May 24, 2023
A Burning Connection: Experiencing Personal Growth at the 2023 Burners Without Borders Summit
October 27, 2022
A Letter From Perquin El Salvador
Project: El Salvador School ProjectCommunity Development //
February 1, 2022
Watch the Video Recap
Project: Watch: Pedacito De La Tierra (A Little Piece Of Home)Community Development // Refugee and Migration Support //
February 4, 2020
Grantee Announced: 2020 RBLS Civic Ignition (Northwest North America)
Community Initiatives //
December 3, 2019
Grantees Announced: 2020 Civic Ignition Grant at Northeast Round Table
Community Initiatives //
August 14, 2019
Campfire Innovation is saying goodbye.
Project: Smart Aid Gatherings: BWB 2018 Community Grant UpdateMutual Aid //
April 23, 2019
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: 2019 Australia & New Zealand Burner Leadership Summit Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //
April 22, 2019
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: 2019 Multi-Regional Summit Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //
April 16, 2019
Ascential Language & Arts School: BWB Microgrant Update!
Project: Ascential Language and Arts School (ALAS) NicaraguaArts and Culture // Children and Youth //
March 12, 2019
Art Without Borders in Nea Kavala, Greece: Grant Update
Project: Art Without Borders: 2018 Civic Ignition GrantArts and Culture // Refugee and Migration Support //
March 1, 2019
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: 2019 European Leadership Summit (ELS) Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //
February 28, 2019
WINNERS Announced: 2019 Southeastern Leadership Roundtable (SERT) Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //February 28, 2019
2019 Southeastern Leadership Roundtable Civic Ignition Grant
Fundraising and Support //
February 16, 2019
Watch: Project Update from Asciental Language & Arts School (ALAS) in Ometepe, Nicaragua
Project: Ascential Language and Arts School (ALAS) NicaraguaCommunity Development //
May 1, 2018
Winners Announced: Australia & New Zealand Burner Leadership Summit Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //
March 16, 2018
Winners Announced: Mid-Atlantic Leadership Conference Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //
March 16, 2018
Winners Announced: Rocky Mountain Burning Arts Summit Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //
February 13, 2018
Winners Announced: Southeastern Leadership Roundtable Civic Ignition Grant
Community Initiatives //
October 27, 2017
Burning Man camp repurposes shipping container shelters for fire victims
Project: Test ProjectDisaster Response and Preparedness //
October 23, 2017
Burning Man Camp Sends Shelters to CA Fire Victims
Disaster Response and Preparedness //
September 28, 2017
Original BWB Couple Giving Back 12 years Later
Disaster Response and Preparedness //
September 10, 2017
From the playa to the mud–BWB heads south to hurricane country
Disaster Response and Preparedness // Fundraising and Support //
June 3, 2017
BWB Louisiana Flood Relief Continues
Project: Burners Responding to 2016 Louisiana FloodsDisaster Response and Preparedness //
January 1, 2017
New Orleans Farming Arts Project in Louisiana, USA: Grant Update
Project: Gloria's Garden - 2017 Grant UpdateCommunity Development // Environment and Sustainability //
November 29, 2016
How the Festival Community Can Support Standing Rock
Indigenous Issues and Sovereignty //October 28, 2016
When Your Best Hope is Setting Everything You’ve Own On Fire Louisiana Flood Relief
Project: Burners Responding to 2016 Louisiana FloodsDisaster Response and Preparedness //
September 29, 2016
BWB Volunteers Making an Impact Louisiana Flood Relief
Project: Burners Responding to 2016 Louisiana FloodsDisaster Response and Preparedness //
September 29, 2016
Holy Grounds Louisiana Flood Relief
Project: Burners Responding to 2016 Louisiana FloodsDisaster Response and Preparedness //
September 12, 2016
Dispatches from Louisiana’s 1000 year Flood
Project: Burners Responding to 2016 Louisiana FloodsDisaster Response and Preparedness //
August 18, 2016
Burners Without Borders: Burning Man Camp & Programming 2016
Community Initiatives //
March 10, 2016
From Black Rock To Standing Rock
Environment and Sustainability // Indigenous Issues and Sovereignty //
June 5, 2015
Alternative Currencies Are Bigger Than Bitcoin: How They’re Building Prosperity From London to Kenya
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
March 25, 2015
Corpus Christi BWB Beach Clean-Up Nets 8,000 Pounds of MOOP
Environment and Sustainability //
March 9, 2015
BWB goes to Amsterdam for the Burning Man European Leadership Summit (ELS).
Education and Skill Development //February 19, 2015
Donate Your Old Android Phone to BWB and Make a Difference
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramFundraising and Support //
September 23, 2014
Community Currency Expanding to Nairobi
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
June 12, 2014
The Failures of Money and a New Kind of Cash
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
April 22, 2014
Elections, Service, Mapping and Nairobi
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
April 15, 2014
African Children Encourged to Protect Wildlife
Project: You Can Save African WildlifeAnimal Welfare // Children and Youth //
March 26, 2014
Borstal Boys: Poi and Life Skills Behind Bars
Project: MotoMoto CircusEducation and Skill Development //
January 21, 2014
Church Offerings with Bangla-Pesa Currency
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
December 10, 2013
Protecting the Wildebeest Migration-Book Launch
Project: You Can Save African WildlifeAnimal Welfare // Children and Youth //
December 5, 2013
MotoMoto and the Dream Catchers
Project: MotoMoto CircusChildren and Youth // Housing and Homelessness // Poverty //
October 23, 2013
Bangla-Pesa Relaunch in November
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
October 16, 2013
Screenprinting Program in Haiti a Great Start!
Project: Screenprinting Program-HaitiEducation and Skill Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
October 14, 2013
“Who could like this life?”-Motomoto
Project: MotoMoto CircusChildren and Youth // Education and Skill Development // Housing and Homelessness //
October 11, 2013
A Kenyan community’s currency, Bangla-Pesa faces trouble
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
September 28, 2013
Colorado Floods-Update from the Field
Project: BWB Colorado Flood ReliefDisaster Response and Preparedness //
August 20, 2013
Bangla-Pesa Charges Dropped
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
August 8, 2013
Buklod ng Kabataan Partner with Green Peace
Project: Buklod Ng Kabataan-Youth Bonding TogetherChildren and Youth // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
July 23, 2013
Bangla-Pesa: Slum Currency and Implications for the Poor in Developing Countries
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
July 13, 2013
The Crime of Fighting Poverty: Local Currency’s Success in Kenya Ends in Forgery Charges
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
May 31, 2013
Protecting Mother Earth-Buklod ng Kabataan: 2013 Grant Update
Project: Buklod Ng Kabataan-Youth Bonding TogetherArts and Culture // Children and Youth // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
February 5, 2013
Burners Without Borders: A Humanitarian Cause Born at Burning Man
Community Development //
January 20, 2013
Volunteers Restore Habitat in County Park in New Jersey
Project: BWB Hurricane Sandy ReliefDisaster Response and Preparedness //
January 15, 2013
John Dos Bicycles on Volunteering with BWB Sandy
Project: BWB Hurricane Sandy ReliefDisaster Response and Preparedness //
January 3, 2013
Art as a Catalyst for Lasting Change in Haiti
Project: Screenprinting Program-HaitiArts and Culture // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
December 12, 2012
A Day in the Life After Hurricane Sandy: Five More Buildings Demolished Before Sunset
Project: BWB Hurricane Sandy ReliefDisaster Response and Preparedness //
December 10, 2012
New Jersey Town Struggles to See Future After Sandy
Disaster Response and Preparedness //November 30, 2012
BWB Begins Removing Houses Destroyed by Sandy
Project: BWB Hurricane Sandy ReliefDisaster Response and Preparedness //
November 24, 2012
Bringing Burning Man Principle of Participation Post Disaster
Project: BWB Hurricane Sandy ReliefDisaster Response and Preparedness //
October 29, 2012
Burners Without Borders Saves Homeowners Millions
Disaster Response and Preparedness //
February 7, 2012
Soup’s On: BWB Detroit Begins it’s Third Year of Microgrant Dinner Series
Community Development // Fundraising and Support //
August 10, 2011
Chilasco’s “Bottle School” Keeps on Building Thanks to BWB!!
Children and Youth // Community Development // Education and Skill Development //October 4, 2010
Where Burning Man and Pisco Meet
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectDisaster Response and Preparedness //
August 1, 2010
Pisco Biodiesel Team Delivers
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectEnvironment and Sustainability // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
March 31, 2010
Gaian Path Reconnects with the Burning Man Community in Peru
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectEnvironment and Sustainability // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
March 19, 2010
Above and Beyond Canada: BWB Stimulus Partner
Children and Youth // Education and Skill Development //
January 21, 2010
Motomoto Successes
Project: MotoMoto CircusChildren and Youth // Housing and Homelessness //
December 18, 2009
Evolution Takes Too Long, Embrace Mutaytion!
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectEnvironment and Sustainability // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
December 12, 2009
Slow Burn: Teaching Responsiblity, Self-Respect, and Compassion with Fire
Project: MotoMoto CircusChildren and Youth // Housing and Homelessness //
December 6, 2009
Motomoto Performs at National Festival in Lamu
Project: MotoMoto CircusArts and Culture // Children and Youth // Housing and Homelessness //
December 6, 2009
Sloppy Joe
Project: MotoMoto CircusArts and Culture // Children and Youth // Housing and Homelessness //
November 10, 2009
Passing the Torch-Volunteers Welcome!
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
November 9, 2009
Motomoto Cirucus-First Performance in a Hotel
Project: MotoMoto CircusArts and Culture // Children and Youth // Education and Skill Development // Housing and Homelessness //
October 16, 2009
Motomoto Circus Steals the Show
Project: MotoMoto CircusArts and Culture // Children and Youth // Housing and Homelessness //
October 5, 2009
Biodiesel Bonanza!!
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Environment and Sustainability // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
October 5, 2009
European Disaster Volunteers – Peru Volunteers Empowered to Lead
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectDisaster Response and Preparedness //
September 28, 2009
All Hands on Deck in the Lower Ninth Ward
Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
July 3, 2009
Motomoto Mombasa- Kenyan Youth Thrive on Fire Dance
Project: MotoMoto CircusArts and Culture // Children and Youth // Housing and Homelessness //
June 19, 2009
Sowing the Seeds of Permaculture in Botswana
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //June 17, 2009
Nine Months Later, Pisco Sin Fronteras (PSF) Story of Growth
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
October 7, 2008
Tres Veces a Pisco
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectDisaster Response and Preparedness //
September 25, 2008
Sustainable Future for Fisherman
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Environment and Sustainability // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
May 28, 2008
BWB completes first school!
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectChildren and Youth // Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
May 28, 2008
Burners Bring Fire to School Dedication in Peru
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectArts and Culture // Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
May 21, 2008
The Dirty and Rewarding Work of Building Schools
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
April 8, 2008
Piscante House Project
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
April 8, 2008
Patrick Brings it Texas Style (and…He’s Never Even Been to Burning Man)
Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
April 6, 2008
Aid Workers Inspired by Burning Man Spirit in Peru
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
March 20, 2008
Inspiring Words from Sandra
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectDisaster Response and Preparedness //
February 29, 2008
Nick Heyming- Notes from the Field
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
February 16, 2008
A Pisco, Peru Snapshot from BWB Volunteer Elizabeth Doughtery
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
February 7, 2008
Building Infrastructure and Getting ‘er Done in Pisco
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectDisaster Response and Preparedness //
