News & Updates : Community Development
December 10, 2024
Temple of Re:Creation: 2024 Microgrant Update
Community Development // Education and Skill Development //
July 23, 2024
BWB Corpus Christi Celebrates 10 Years of Service
Project: Hurricane Harvey Relief EffortCommunity Development //
July 23, 2024
BWB Grant Winner EcoPazifico Celebrates 10 Years
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //
July 20, 2024
Watch: Medicine Garden & Haba Update
Project: Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Museum Garden Engagement: 2022 Microgrant UpdateCommunity Development // Indigenous Issues and Sovereignty //
March 10, 2024
Carbon-Neutral Maternity Ward
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //March 10, 2024
BWB Brazil: Kijemy ūpú Mãguty (Eating Space / Food House)
Community Development // Indigenous Issues and Sovereignty //March 10, 2024
BWB Galveston: Galveston Seawall Mural
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //March 10, 2024
International Disaster Volunteers: Our Garden, Our Food Community Gardens
Community Development //March 10, 2024
Radio Tower Repurposing Proposal: 100.5 LPFM
Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //March 10, 2024
Mangwende Orphan Care Trust: Community Nursery Project
Community Development // Food Access and Scarcity //March 10, 2024
New Orleans Farming Arts Project
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //November 15, 2023
Garden of Mutuality: A Collaborative Mosaic Project
Community Development // Housing and Homelessness //November 15, 2023
City of Portsmouth: Collective Effervescence on the Ohio River
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //November 15, 2023
BWB Colorado: Regional Comms
Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
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 1, 2021
Watch: Pedacito De La Tierra (A Little Piece Of Home)
Community Development // Refugee and Migration Support //
December 18, 2019
The Feast: En La Frontera (US/MX Border)
Community Development // Refugee and Migration Support //
June 22, 2019
Report Out: Permaculture Action Day In Oakland
Community Development // Food Access and Scarcity //
May 28, 2019
La Calaca Arte Urbano: 2018 Microgrant Update
Arts and Culture // Community Development //
April 9, 2019
Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden: 2018 Microgrant Update
Community Development // Education and Skill Development //
February 19, 2019
Elk Creek Art Walk: 2018 Civic Ignition Grant Update
Arts and Culture // Community Development //
February 16, 2019
Watch: Project Update from Asciental Language & Arts School (ALAS) in Ometepe, Nicaragua
Project: Ascential Language and Arts School (ALAS) NicaraguaCommunity Development //
February 12, 2019
Galveston Seawall Mural: 2018 Civic Ignition Grant Update
Arts and Culture // Community Development //
February 5, 2019
Sparkhaus Hub: 2018 Civic Ignition Grant Update
Community Development // Education and Skill Development //
February 1, 2018
Cotatitarod: North Bay Shopping Cart Race
Community Development // Food Access and Scarcity //
October 10, 2017
ZumaPoop in Oaxaca, Mexico: 2017 Grant Update
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //
October 10, 2017
Gloria’s Garden – 2017 Grant Update
Community Development // Food Access and Scarcity //
January 1, 2017
New Orleans Farming Arts Project in Louisiana, USA: Grant Update
Project: Gloria's Garden - 2017 Grant UpdateCommunity Development // Environment and Sustainability //
January 1, 2017
New Orleans Farming Arts Project in Louisiana, USA: Grant Update
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //
July 18, 2016
LA Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //
March 15, 2016
One Stitch at a Time: Jakmel Ekspresyon’s New Program Seeks In-Kind donations
Community Development // Education and Skill Development //
January 19, 2016
BWB-Seattle Tilth Volunteer Event and Tool Drive
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //
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 //
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 //
January 21, 2014
Church Offerings with Bangla-Pesa Currency
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
October 23, 2013
Bangla-Pesa Relaunch in November
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
October 11, 2013
A Kenyan community’s currency, Bangla-Pesa faces trouble
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
September 18, 2013
Help Build a Dormitory for Girls in Nepal
Community Development // Women and Girls //August 20, 2013
Bangla-Pesa Charges Dropped
Project: Bangla-Pesa Community Currency ProgramCommunity Development // Poverty //
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 //
February 5, 2013
Burners Without Borders: A Humanitarian Cause Born at Burning Man
Community Development //
October 19, 2012
Fruitful Seniors Project Update, Utah
Community Development // Health and Wellness //
August 4, 2012
Slacklining in Haiti-People Inspiring People
Arts and Culture // Community Development //
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 //
March 19, 2011
The Propagation House: Planting Seeds for the Community’s Future
Community Development // Food Access and Scarcity //
October 18, 2010
Domes For Haitian Orphanages
Community Development // Housing and Homelessness // Poverty //
November 10, 2009
Passing the Torch-Volunteers Welcome!
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
October 5, 2009
Biodiesel Bonanza!!
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Environment and Sustainability // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
October 4, 2009
Botswana Permaculture ‘Listen to the Youth’ 2009 Grant Update
Community Development // Environment and Sustainability //
September 28, 2009
All Hands on Deck in the Lower Ninth Ward
Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //
July 27, 2009
Graffiti Artists Spray Publicity for Local Farm: 2008 Grant Update
Arts and Culture // Community Development //
July 24, 2009
Starma Circus Presents ‘Suddenly Circus’: 2009 Grant Update
Arts and Culture // Community Development // Poverty //
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 //
September 25, 2008
Sustainable Future for Fisherman
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Environment and Sustainability // 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 28, 2008
BWB completes first school!
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectChildren and Youth // 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
Patrick Brings it Texas Style (and…He’s Never Even Been to Burning Man)
Community Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //April 8, 2008
Piscante House Project
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity 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 //
February 29, 2008
Nick Heyming- Notes from the Field
Project: BWB Pisco Reconstruction ProjectCommunity Development // Disaster Response and Preparedness //