Every year since 2003, Burning Man has used proceeds from ice sales at the event to make year-end donations to various charitable, art and service organizations in Northern Nevada and the San Francisco Bay Area. For 2010, we worked to increase the total dollar amount of our donations, committing a total of $159,850 for the year. On the heels of the recent news about the closure of the US Gypsum plant in Empire, we gave special consideration to those charities that benefit the people and communities of Northern Nevada.
Below is a list of charitable donation recipients for 2010:
| Black Rock Arts Foundation |
| Black Rock Solar |
| Best Friend’s Animal Society (in memoriam Bill Carter) |
| The Crucible |
| Yick Wo School |
| Lawyers for Burners c/o Trip Knight |
| Leave No Trace |
| Surprise Valley Chamber of Commerce (Cedarville) |
| Nimby |
| Circuit Network |
| Dogpatch Neighborhood Association |
| Nevada Organizations |
| Gerlach Volunteer Fire Department |
| Gerlach High School |
| Gerlach Gen. Improve. Dist. |
| Gerlach-Empire Senior Citizens Palace |
| Crisis Call Center |
| Friends of the Black Rock |
| Nevada Museum of Art |
| Nevada State Museum |
| Historical Society of Dayton Valley |
| Sierra Arts Foundation |
| Bruka Theatre |
| Nevada Discovery Museum |
| Kiwanis Bike Project |
| American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada |
| Lovelock/Pershing Organizations |
| COUNTY CHARITIES |
| Pershing County Government General Fund |
| PRIVATE CHARITIES |
| Pershing County Senior Center |
| Eagle Scholarship |
| Pershing County Community Center |
| Pershing County High School (Athletic Department) |
| Pershing County Domestic Violence Intervention |
| Pershing General Hospital & Nursing Care |
| Pershing County Humane Society |
| Lovelock Frontier Days |
| Lovelock Lion’s Club |
| Friends of the Library |
| Marzen House Museum |
| Kid’s, Horses & Rodeos |
| Lovelock Food Bank |
| Lovelock Boy Scouts Association |
| Lovelock Little League Association |
| Lovelock Chamber of Commerce |
| Pershing County Arts Council |
| Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary |
| Project Graduation |
From all of us at the Leave No Trace Center For Outdoor Ethics, Thank You for your financial support and another great year on the Playa!!
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Kudos to Burning Man’s continual support in the region. I am always amazed by the generosity of the organization! Thanks for being a great partner to northern Nevada.
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I think it would be really a nice way to pass time while waiting in the ice line to see the above list posted….
Way to go!
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$150,000 out of 14 million. I’d love to see a full a accounting.
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@jay it’s from ice sales, not ticket sales. BM accounting IS open for you to see.
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Boy Scout donation is offensive (given the bigoted and homophobic nature of the organization) but on the whole it’s a good list.
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@HK – I agree with you that the politics of the Boy Scouts organization are offensive and exclusionary, but for a boy growing up in a rural community (there’s not too much going on in Lovelock) it can still be a great way to learn to get along with children, take responsibility, and care for your community. Let’s focus our energy on creating more opportunities for kids and supporting the ones they have.
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it’s not the big you can get the number as much as how well and when it moved.
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Jay, you can check the Afterburn reports afterburn.burningman.com to see accounting back to 2000.
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I personally would love to see the Boy Scouts removed from the list and 4-H clubs placed in their stead. The 4-H Foundation embraces most of the same ideals as our community. Radical self reliance, tolerance, acceptance, community service, and civic responsibilities. There are a huge number of programs with in organization each designed to teach useful skills, along with useful life skills. Anything that can be taught in the Scouts, along with, agriculture, art, sciences, and humanity.
Boy Scouts reach so few children after exclusionary factors are figured in. Religion, sexual orientation, gender, geographic and financial limitations, Boy Scouts are very expensive, with little resources devoted toward children in need. I just feel like this organization needs to go away.
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I was pleased to see the many places the money goes. I’m a grate full person no a complainer. Thank you for including so many. I’ve lived in a very small hi-desert town once and know the thrill of extra money coming in for fire department and ect.
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Giving to Boy Scouts is like saying you hate Jim Crow but will go ahead and sit at that segregated lunch counter anyway.
That BS pales in comparison to the piddly amount given to NV organizations–$159,000 in 2010, $156,000 in 2009, $64,000 in 2008. Out of $12-$14 million in overall expenditures. Oh yeah, and nothing to NV org’s prior to 2008.
We ain’t the brightest bulbs on the tree here in NV, but thems chicken scratch folks!
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As a national organization, yes, BSA apears to be offensive and exclusionary, but forcing the organizationg to accept people and ideas it disagreas with is a violation of the first amendment and the free assocation clause. No different than forcing a christian church to accept a rabi as it's religious leader.
Ultimaty, it comes down to the individual troop and it's leaders on whom to accept. There were several scouts in my troop that came out of the closet and were treated no diferent than anyone else. The same for the athiest. Was my troop progresive? I duno, I don't think we cared…
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The Boy Scouts taught me to serve others and to help other people at all times, I learned how to be self-reliant in difficult situations. My troop was wildly inclusive and rabid about Leave No Trace. As far as I'm concerned, the scouts taught me how to be a good burner.
I often ask the same question; "was my troop progressive?" The fact is that it doesn't matter because it's a comparative assessment. My troop (like so many things) was the way it was because of the individuals who got involved.
In any case, I think the donation is brilliant. Bridge the gap. There are future burners learning to tie knots right now everywhere.
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I have mixed feelings about the Boy Scout thing. They’ll have to come around to the new world eventually, just like everybody else. But probably it is a good place to donate money.
What I’m wondering about is the donation to the high school “athletic department.” Wouldn’t a donation to the school be better, they could distribute it to all departments.
It is a wonderful thing to do for the whole community and BM has every right to be proud of this.
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