by Kelly Brantner | Nov 17, 2020 | Education, Youth
The Literate Earth Project (LEP) is pleased to announced this exciting new initiative! LEP takes pride in the fact that they have continually adapted and improved their working model—they have an iterative approach to everything they do. Their guiding principle is to...
by Kelly Brantner | Sep 22, 2020 | Education, Youth
This update is courtesy of The Literate Earth Project (LEP). Schools in Uganda have been closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, and as such the LEP libraries have been closed to the communities they serve. Fortunately, schools in Uganda will begin to open...
by Kelly Brantner | Jul 2, 2020 | Education, Youth
Congratulations to the Graduating Class of 2020! Educating Girls of Rural China (EGRC), shared this collage of the 30 girls that graduated from their undergraduate programs at universities in China and around the world. EGRC currently has 140 girls attending...
by Kelly Brantner | May 21, 2020 | BBS News, Education, Youth
This past March, BBS became a permanent vetted partner of GlobalGiving, the world’s largest fundraising platform. There are a tremendous number of benefits to becoming a partner including our ability to now, via GlobalGiving, issues tax receipts for causes to US and...
by Katie McGowan | Nov 29, 2017 | BBS News, Humanitarian, Social Entrepreneurship, Volunteering, Youth
In February 2018, our team will be heading to Nepal for our very first BBS humanitarian trip! We will be taking a small team of incredible volunteers JUST LIKE YOU to work with our friends at Circus Kathmandu. Circus Kathmandu (CK) are a 12 person acrobatics troop...
by Katie McGowan | Apr 6, 2017 | Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Youth
Landing in Bangkok, our team recently touched down to spend a bit of time with our first BBS-sponsored NGO, the JUMP! Foundation. The JUMP! Foundation runs a wide variety of for-profit and not-for-profit experiential education programs for youth around the world....
