Global Business Brigades

Global Brigades

Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. As a secular, international nonprofit organization, we mobilize student volunteers and professionals to empower communities in developing countries with programs that improve quality of life while respecting local culture and improving the environment.
Between 2008 and 2009, more than 4,000 volunteers from 80 GB university chapters in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. traveled to provide health and economic development solutions to more than 50,000 beneficiaries through our teams in Panama and Honduras.

Global Business Brigades

Global Business Brigades is a socially conscious network of volunteers that bring business skills and a passion for change to developing communities around the world. The secular organization empowers college students with the material, know-how, and support to assess and deliver sustainable micro-enterprise solutions to impoverished villages.

GBB provides sustainable solutions by providing:

1. Direct Capital Investment In The Community (Community Investment Fund): As part of the GBB cost, each brigader will contribute a portion of their fees towards direct capital investment of the community where their project is located. This money will be used as the Brigade Team sees fit to provide architectural materials that suit the given project. The Brigade team itself is the deciding body on how this capital is spent in order to maximize project sustainability.
2. Human Resource Capital: Each Brigade will include at least 10-15 students who will engage a community, create an intercultural dialogue, and collaborate to provide the best sustainable solutions possible. Often times, brigaders walk away from these experiences learning much more than taught or built and gaining a valuable and eye-opening experience.
3. Global Brigades Is Not a One Time Hand Out. Often times, if a Brigade believes it is necessary, they can pursue 1-2 follow up brigades to ensure the execution of their sustainable development solutions. Global Brigades staff along with our partner organizations also continue to monitor the success of each brigade to ensure long term sustainability.