Video explaining BWB Detroit from 2018

John Sauve of “Art N Design” and I became fast friends the moment we met. This guy is funny and lighthearted and a genuinely nice guy. He does this show were he gets to hang out and chat with folks and it was an honor to hang out with him at the Bloomfield Township TV station in 2018 to talk about BWB Detroit.

I just rewatched this and I am amazing at how many names I dropped. I love dropping names in this capacity..ie paying tribute to the folks who help out and build projects together.

A hopefully full list of the amazing folks I mentioned; (and not mentioned the hundreds of additional people who help in soo many amazing ways) Huge bow to you all!

Rosey Posey who helped level this project up!!

Kim and Chris Casteel of Anew Life Prosthetics

The amazing crew at the Tangent Gallery Joe and Jimbo

The whole DAMNED crew

Charles from Atelier Gothic who donates and hosts a very generous fundraiser for BWB Detroit at the DAMNED  

Mike who does all sorts of things for BWB Detroit programs

Maddy- who organizes BWB Detroit Free Store and Shannon who does haircuts for BWB Detroit Free Store

Chris Maxwell from Shinola who comes to our annual event and gathers donations and crew

Teal and Purple of Drink and Stitch

Amy Hajec

Jen Stark

Krampus – who throws a great party that benefits BWB Detroit

Sunday Feb 21, 2021—come get your backpacks..help us get them on the streets to folks in need!

Burners without Borders Detroit
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On Sunday, Feb 21st Burners without Borders Detroit will be packing 300 more supply-filled backpacks and we need help getting them onto the streets into the hands of people who can use them.We will be open for pick up from 2pm til 5pm(ish) that day and would love it if folks can PM us to set up a time to come by for the safe transfer of the packs.The pickup location is on the upper east side of Detroit near Grosse Pointe!

https://www.facebook.com/events/952545798821082/

https://www.facebook.com/events/952545798821082/

#TogetherIsHowWeDoThis!

BWB Patches may be gone… but your generosity is not forgotten!!

When I wrote that we had sold out of patches I had not yet received the names of people who purchased them….and now that I do have the list I want to thank all of you.

I love that some folks bought 2 and even more and knowing there are now 100 of these patches out there I look forward to seeing them purses, and pouches and jackets and more!

Thanks to each of you near and far..86 were sold to Michiganagers – 12 were out of state and 2 were international! (Oh Canada) And we even had 2 generous folks not need a patch they just wanted to make a donation! (heart melt!)

To each of you… Thank you..i want to barnacle hug you all!

THIS fundraiser reminded us how important ALL the fundraisers are that people have done for us over the last decade to our meeting the mission of helping others. Each fundraiser, no matter how big or small, keeps alive the WE of this project.!! This fundraiser especially helped us in a time when were like.. ‘OMG .. this is going to be such a hard hustle during covid’. We even considering folding this year, instead remembered the power of asking and when we did people stepped up to help us help others..we can not do what we do without the help of others.

To read more about the fundraiser on for BWB Detroit by Brad and Pam Benzing read more here:

https://bwbdetroit.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/so-thankful-for-this-fundraiser-bwb-detroit-patches/

Here is the list of folks who supported this fundraiser and now have the first of our schwag!!

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH.. love love love

Joshua Shessel 

Molly Levine 

Earl Ford II 

Sandra Brondstetter 

Travis Roberts 

Kris Sleeman 

Kyleigh Mathewson 

Darin Quintero 

Danielle ~doxie Kaltz 

Jennifer Zupancic 

Theresa Galeani 

Avanti Herczerg 

Kay Morrison 

Dan G 

Alex Janowski 

Joshua McAninch 

Christopher Breedlove 

Mitzi Colombo 

Nicolle Tsertos 

Shannon Kennedy 

Teal Burke 

Mary Green 

Kelly Sager 

Sarah Grieve 

Beth Longton 

Ms. Grace Detroit 

Sheryl Bradakis 

Lynnette Blasey 

Theresa Chavez 

Shannon Landis 

Mark Rothman 

Alex Drummer 

Rick McGarry 

Elisabeth Williford 

Chloe Zrnich 

Stephie Hammel 

Samuel Jones 

Christopher Moorhouse 

Timmins Technology 

Briana McDonald 

Susan Chettle (Rutherford) 

Amber Scott 

Kathleen Bruce 

Nick Rathbun 

Aylex Warmbier 

Veronique Rawetzki 

Charlene Francis 

Emily Reppert 

Adrienne Johnson 

Hanna Hoover 

Chris Schaerli 

Piper Shano  

Brad Benzing 

Kenna Takahashi 

Michael Willenborg 

Hugh Ransley

Donating to Burners without Borders helps all the chapters all over the world.

By donating any amount it helps the head organizers in San Francisco Ms. Molly Rose the Program Manager and Christopher Breedlove Head of Burners Without Borders at the Burning Man Project accomplish the mission of promoting activities around the globe that support a community’s inherent capacity to thrive by encouraging innovative approaches to disaster relief and grassroots initiatives that make a positive impact.

To learn more about projects check out this link; https://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/projects-home

Here is an infographic to demonstrate some of the impact;

To donate by mail:
Checks can be made payable to Burning Man Project.
Please note Burners Without Borders in the memo field or with an accompanying letter indicating your designation to the Burners Without Borders program. 

Please mail donations to:

 

Burning Man Project

Memo Line:  Burners Without Borders

660 Alabama St. 4th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94110

To donate electronically:

https://connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization/burningmanproject/campaign/BWBGeneral

GRATITUDE POST for 2020 and 2021 & a little 2019 too!!

HUGE BOW TO EACH OF YOU WE CAN NOT DO WHAT WE DO FOR OTHERS WITHOUT YOU!!! 

This list scrolls long and it melts my heart….I wish I could hug each of your individually and tell you thank you to your face.

I beg forgiveness to anyone who i did not add to this list, I am so sorry if I have neglected to acknowledge you. xo

I am going to do a shout out to Brad and Pam Benzing for creating the BWB Patch project and to Leslie for helping to organize!!

To all the additional supporters and donors of BWB Detroit via hard work, hustling, shopping, hauling, packing, giving donations via the Amazon Wish List and the Sign Up Genius in 2020/2021 and all the ways people donate and help!! 

Veronica Adams

Christopher Arnold

Sam Atkins

Peter Bailey

Mickey Bonanni

Kathleen Bruce (Purple)

Jamie Burdeski

Rodney Curtis

Mary Davis

William Doyle (Boston Bill)

Peter Durand

Leslie Ellis

Vicky Elmer

Matisse Enzer

Steven Faulstich (Esteban)

Madelyn Frost

Francesca Gagliano

Teresa Galenai (Shiney)

AnaMaria Gould

Avanti Felice

Alex Jankowski

Carol Kaltz

Shannon Kennedy

Daniel Kuczera

Karysa Kwasniewski

Katie Lasich 

Adam Layne

Sharon Layne

Rob Lippert

Mark Loeb

Jerry Lowetz

Kate Luby

Tony Maceratini

Melissa L. Marrero

Chris Maxwell

Maria Mollicone

Carrie Myers  (Dirt Goddess)

Steve Nagy

Lee Padgett

Jenny Raquel

Mark Rothman

Hannah Rose

Anika Smith

Yana Smolitsky

Kiri Torgler

Leslie Thomas

Mike Willenborg

Michelle L. Wilson

Karla Wolfe

Bobbi Jo Vallad

edit.. more folks to add (2-18-2021)

Helped me directly With either donations, picking up , organizing stuff, making notes, ordering and tracking supplies.
Sarah Mackey
Alex Willenborg
Tessa Willenborg  and third/fourth grade classes at St Basil’s grade school
Laura Wilson
Phil Askew
Hannah Stevens
Suzanne Urban
Gail Marlow
Latisha Johnson

To all the folks who bought BWB Patches to support the cause

Read about that fundraiser here; https://bwbdetroit.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/bwb-patches-may-be-gone-but-your-generosity-is-not-forgotten/

Joshua Shessel 

Molly Levine 

Earl Ford II 

Sandra Brondstetter 

Travis Roberts 

Kris Sleeman 

Kyleigh Mathewson 

Darin Quintero 

Danielle ~doxie Kaltz 

Jennifer Zupancic 

Theresa Galeani 

Avanti Herczerg 

Kay Morrison 

Dan G 

Alex Janowski 

Joshua McAninch 

Christopher Breedlove 

Mitzi Colombo 

Nicolle Tsertos 

Shannon Kennedy 

Teal Burke 

Mary Green 

Kelly Sager 

Sarah Grieve 

Beth Longton 

Ms. Grace Detroit 

Sheryl Bradakis 

Lynnette Blasey 

Theresa Chavez 

Shannon Landis 

Mark Rothman 

Alex Drummer 

Rick McGarry 

Elisabeth Williford 

Chloe Zrnich 

Stephie Hammel 

Samuel Jones 

Christopher Moorhouse 

Timmins Technology 

Briana McDonald 

Susan Chettle (Rutherford) 

Amber Scott 

Kathleen Bruce 

Nick Rathbun 

Aylex Warmbier 

Veronique Rawetzki 

Charlene Francis 

Emily Reppert 

Adrienne Johnson 

Hanna Hoover 

Chris Schaerli 

Piper Shano  

Brad Benzing 

Kenna Takahashi 

Michael Willenborg 

Hugh Ransley

To all the Cunts supporting LuvACunt Titties & Clitties (LACTAT) at the DIRTY SHOW in 2020 who in my absence decided the show must go on and took the reigns and made sure we continued to create an experience for women that serves and support women and hopes to empower them too!

Jessica Clare

Indio 

Kyleigh Mathewson 

Kathleen Holzgen 

Kathryn F Dorko 

Lynn Blasey 

Leeanne Minx Salinis/George 

Chloe Zrnich 

Jenny Raquel 

Jessica Clare 

Lynn Blasey 

Riley Shanks J

ennifer Zupancic 

Danyell Kayy 

Shanta Ambady 

Kalika Karika 

Bridget Blondell 

Joel Buder 

Shannon Kennedy

To all the donors from the Delta Zeta Bingo Board in fall of 2020

Sarah Stamm, 

Griffin Smith, 

Justin Gingell, 

Malina Moceri, 

madie loebig, 

Bobby Samples, 

Joe Smigelski, 

gina hernandez, 

clara bielawski, 

sarah lakotich, 

Aidan Kushel, 

ashley larivee, 

Jonah Kubicek,

Abigail Kargenian, 

sydney hesano, 

Abraham Vincil, 

lauren stack, 

Angelica Maria Guarnizo, 

Noah Lundgren, 

Leah Butkis, 

Sofia Calderon, 

Mikayla Horen, 

Ava Napolitan, 

Wendy Horen, 

Tommy McEwen, 

Ryan Mirhosiny, 

DJ Hamilton, 

Lilly Snyder, 

Domingo Trevino, 

Hannah Cortese, 

Jade Mourad, 

Jaclyn Steis, 

Abby Bies, 

Kyra Sells, 

mckenna riggins, 

Delta Nu Pikes, 

amanda quinn, 

Drake Reid, 

Anthony Matta, 

Stone Schmitt, 

Cameron Mokrenski, 

Delaney Field,

celeste kotchounian, 

Nathan Farnsworth, 

Sydney Sullivan, 

Umme Aiman Mirza, 

Nicole Borkosh, 

Marcel Munger, 

Mohammed Kamran, 

Claudia Miller, 

Beccu J, 

Sydney Jazvac, 

Zoe Ballew, 

Haley Werkmeister, 

Amanda Bastien, 

Raymond Chambliss, 

Michael Nicolas, 

Brianna Fistler, 

Blake Gilliam, 

Nick Smiddy, 

Leandra Pinero, 

Liah Samon, 

Olivia Kale, 

Christine Proudlock, 

Gabby Guthrie, 

Christine Proudlock, 

Kierstynn Lyon, 

Tyler Tabenske, 

Lorna Pinero, 

Ryan cacicedo, 

Aesha Donald, 

Julia Moceri, 

Mackenzie Livernois, 

Audrey Moyer

To all the Cunts supporting LuvACunt Titties & Clitties (LACTAT) at the DIRTY SHOW in 2019 

Jessca Ann 

Jessica Rowland 

Stephanie Hammel 

Kyleigh Mathewson 

Jennifer Zupancic 

Indo 

Sarah Lynn 

Gretch Armstrong

Kathryn F Dorko 

Shannon Kennedy 

Bridget Blondell 

Danielle Doxie Kaltz

Josh Bacon 

Lynn blasey

Ruby La Louche 

Chloe Zrnich 

Nuri Gocay 

Kalika Karika 

Thaddeus McKracken

To all the donation from people via the Amazon Wish List and Sign Up Genius in 2019/2020

Adam & Sharon	Layne
Ami	Szacilowska
Anthony	Maceratini
Brad & Pam	Benzing
Brooke	Kleiber
Carol K	KALTZ
Chris	Maxwell
Crystal	Steinmetz
Dana	Klenk
Eric	Miller
Gretchen	Martin
Heather	Pierce
Jason	Sweeney
Jean	Weaver
Jeff	Jones
Jennifer	Irene
Jessica	rowland
Joe	Grima
Kathleen	Bruce
Kathleen	Bruce
Kim	Casteel
Kimberly	Reeves
Lisa	Mueller
Michael	Perry
Mike	Norman
mike	willenborg
Rich	Roberts
Sara	Minty
Sarah	Mackey
Shannon	Kennedy
Stephanie	Ruckes
Susan	Rutherford
Suzanne	Urban
suzanne	campbell
Ursula	Watson Bayer

So thankful for this fundraiser….BWB Detroit Patches

Late last year Brad Benzing hit doxie up to suggest a fundraiser of BWB Detroit patches.

This idea came at a time when BWB was suffering from having given most of our funds away early in the pandemic to support members of the community yet still wanting to create 500 backpacks…..but how to do that?

Of course we called out to the community and we received so many donations via our SignupGenius and items sent to us via our amazing community wanting to continue to help us help others.

Then Brad hits me up almost out of the blue and told me to send him our logo…this made us finalize a logo and it is based on another chapters but our color is orange and we have the name of the city of which so many of us are proud.

Once we got him the logo, thanks to Alex aka Shenanigans, Brad took the reigns and got the patches made and then handled the selling of them and the mailing of them. That took so much weight off of BWB Detroit and we are so thankful to him and he crew for such a gift.

As of today we are SOLD OUT!!! and we were able to use the funds to purchase ALL the rest of the supplies to finish the next 300 backpacks.

THIS fundraiser REMINDED me how important ALL the fundraisers people do for us to the mission and to keeping alive the WE of this project.!!

This one especially helped us in a time when were like.. “OMG .. this is going to be such a hard hustle to get there…we can not able to explain to how much this helped us.

It is only because of running BWB Detroit that doxie even learned to ask for help.. she was (is) stubborn and figured she had life all dialed in and she could do it all myself.. but helping others taught her to ask for help.. and Brad reached out to help us took the fear out of if she was going to exhaust her ability to ask others for help. Charity exhaustion is real and times are soo tight for so many people.

She always say this project is a “Me to We project” and when she hears people say ..’we can do this’ ‘we do this.” etc etc.. and when she hears people talk about it in the possessive it is a measure of success for her. ..and Brad continued to prove this is a “We” project.. he proved that to us in a time when we wondered if we may have to fold the project this year.

Thank you to Brad and his crew for keeping it alive.

Thank you to the DAMNED family

We are so damned thankful to the DAMNED FUNDRAISER that was created to benefit Burners without Borders Detroit!

13% of the profits of from the new DAMNED Store were donated to BWBD so we could continue to care of our friends living on the cold Detroit streets

Visit the DAMNED Store for links. DAMNED Store: thatdamnedshow.com/storeBWBD Info: thatdamnedshow.com/bwbd

We Thank you hugely for all their support this year throughout ALL THE MANY years of their event!!!

We are still in need of some supplies!! Help if you can!

Hello

We are keeping track of our donated supplies using SignUpGenius and we are getting really close to have all we need to fill the 504 backpacks we have.

If you can help out in anyway that would be amazing and greatly appreciated.

Thank you kindly!

Burners without Borders Detroit

BWB Detroit winter 2020/21 needs

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c4da9ae2a1-bwbdetroit

Eagles Helping Hands needs help to help others too!!

Eagles Helping Hands relies on the generosity of our partners and the public to continue to bring healthy food to the local community.

WISH LIST

Paper Towel                           Garbage bags                Clean grocery bags

Bleach                                   Diapers                    Large heavy tarps (20’x30′)

We are beginning to enter the cold season for food distribution and the below items will make the process safer and more comfortable for volunteers:

Propane Heaters

Easy-Up Canopy (straight legs, sides are a plus)

Weights to hold down tent

They have a service to pick up food should you need it. Details are on their site; https://eagleshelpinghands.org/

Can you make 125 bag lunches to support the hungry?

NSO of Detroit is looking for meals for residents they have housed in a temporary location while they wait for new housing to open up on Mack at Gratiot.

The temporary location does not have a full working kitchen so they are looking for organizations and groups or people to help out and cover the gap.

If you can help please reach out to them!!

NSO has a wishlist as well:

https://www.nso-mi.org/nso-wish-lists.html

Check out the new campus they are building :

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/09/30/detroit-housing-center-homeless-health-substance-abuse-services-shelter/3585632001/