Chapter Profile
BWB Florida
BWB Florida chapter profile, contacts, collaboration opportunities, and related updates.
Chapter Snapshot
- Status
- unknown
- Metro / Region
- Florida
- Country
- United States
- State / Province
- Florida
Contact and Links
Official BWB page: https://burnerswithoutborders.org/chapters/bwb-florida/
Social media: facebook
Sources
Local Context
Add notes about the Florida community, local priorities, existing relationships, and regional context.
Collaboration Priorities
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Research Notes
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Open Questions
- What local organizations should be prioritized first?
- Which opportunities are already connected to this chapter?
- What recent chapter activity should be reflected here?
Volunteer With This Chapter
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Potential Collaboration Opportunities
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The RAW Project
The RAW Project is a Miami-based public-art initiative with a visible portfolio of school and mural projects, making it a plausible partner for participatory art, school-campus activation, and community beautification projects that fit BWB’s civic creativity orientation.
- Support a volunteer mural-prep or campus beautification day connected to a school or youth arts site.
- Pair BWB volunteers with local artists for a reuse-materials public-art build or community activation.
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Feeding Florida
Feeding Florida is the statewide food-bank network, lists member food banks across Florida, reports statewide partner-agency reach, and describes disaster-response capacity in partnership with the Division of Emergency Management. This makes it a strong fit for BWB volunteer sorting, drive coordination, water/meal staging, and local food-bank referrals during blue-sky and disaster periods.
- Coordinate BWB volunteer teams with the relevant local member food bank for sorting, packing, or distribution shifts.
- Run a pre-hurricane supply or food-drive pilot routed through the appropriate regional food bank.
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Florida Sea Grant
Florida Sea Grant is a university-based coastal program focused on Florida coastal habitats, marine resources, funded research, citizen science, education, disaster preparedness and recovery, marine debris, and workforce training. It could help BWB Florida ground coastal cleanup, citizen-science, and resilience education projects in credible local science.
- Recruit BWB volunteers into coastal citizen-science, marine-debris, or education activities led by Sea Grant or county Extension agents.
- Co-host a practical coastal-resilience workshop before hurricane season with local Extension or Sea Grant staff.
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Catalyst Miami CLEAR
Catalyst Miami’s CLEAR program trains community members in climate science, local climate threats, climate justice, advocacy, and resilience leadership. It is a strong fit for BWB volunteers who want to support preparedness workshops, climate-literacy sessions, or resident-led resilience projects in Miami-Dade.
- Provide volunteer logistics for a CLEAR-alumni hurricane preparedness or heat-resilience workshop.
- Invite CLEAR leaders to advise BWB Florida on equitable climate-resilience priorities before launching Miami-area projects.
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The Miami Foundation
The Miami Foundation describes itself as Greater Miami’s community foundation, a hub for collaboration, a supporter of nonprofits, and a funder of priorities including climate and disaster resilience, civic involvement, youth and families, and equity. It could be relevant for a Miami-area BWB pilot needing local philanthropic visibility, aligned partners, or donor/fund pathways.
- Explore whether a BWB-led resilience or public-space pilot fits an existing Miami Foundation priority area or donor-advised fund.
- Ask for referrals to Miami-Dade nonprofit partners already working on climate/disaster resilience or civic engagement.
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Central Florida Foundation
Central Florida Foundation stewards charitable funds, supports nonprofits, operates grantmaking and community partnerships, and runs civic initiatives including community conversations and a social-enterprise accelerator. It could help BWB Florida identify Orlando/Central Florida nonprofit partners, funding pathways, or community conversations for resilience and public-service projects.
- Seek referral to Orlando-area nonprofits aligned with disaster preparedness, livability, or community connection.
- Explore small-grant, donor-advised, or community-initiative fit for a BWB Central Florida pilot.
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a farmworker-led human-rights organization rooted in Immokalee, Florida, with programs around worker education, the Fair Food Program, anti-slavery work, and worker-driven social responsibility. It is a high-quality lead for any BWB Florida project involving heat safety, disaster recovery for outdoor workers, supply support, or worker-centered public education.
- Offer BWB volunteer logistics for a worker-support event, supply drive, or heat/disaster preparedness distribution if requested by CIW.
- Invite CIW guidance before any BWB project involving farmworker communities, labor safety, or agricultural disaster recovery.
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Funds2Orgs
Funds2Orgs is an Orlando-area shoe-drive fundraising and reuse enterprise that works with schools, nonprofits, families, and CSR groups; its model combines community collection, pickup logistics, landfill diversion, and fundraising by weight. It could be a practical logistics partner for BWB Florida collection drives that also reduce textile waste.
- Run a BWB shoe-drive fundraiser supporting a local resilience, mutual-aid, or direct-service project.
- Add shoe collection to a larger repair/reuse or preparedness event where Funds2Orgs handles pickup logistics.
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Volunteer Florida
Volunteer Florida is the state’s central public-service and volunteerism organization, with programs for volunteer services, AmeriCorps, emergency management, Community Emergency Response Team support, disaster case management, and the Florida Disaster Fund. It is one of the clearest public-agency interfaces for BWB Florida volunteer mobilization and disaster-readiness alignment.
- Register BWB Florida volunteer opportunities or find vetted local opportunities through Volunteer Connect.
- Coordinate with Volunteer Florida emergency-management resources before hurricane-season volunteer mobilization.
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Florida Division of Emergency Management
The Florida Division of Emergency Management maintains the state emergency portal, State Emergency Response Team information, county emergency-management links, mitigation and recovery programs, shelter and evacuation resources, and preparedness guidance. It is important for BWB Florida to understand official emergency coordination boundaries before offering disaster-response support.
- Use FDEM and county emergency-management materials in BWB preparedness workshops.
- Route spontaneous BWB disaster volunteers toward official county or Volunteer Florida channels during declared emergencies.
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Tampa Hackerspace
Tampa Hackerspace is a nonprofit community makerspace with a large facility, active member community, classes, safety/tool sign-offs, and equipment including wood shop, sewing/textiles, electronics, 3D printing, and metal/machine shop resources. It is a strong fit for BWB build days, repair clinics, signage fabrication, and preparedness-kit prototyping in the Tampa Bay area.
- Co-host a repair, sewing, or preparedness-kit build day with trained makerspace members.
- Fabricate event infrastructure, wayfinding, or accessibility improvements for a BWB-supported community project.
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MakerFX Makerspace
MakerFX is a South Orlando community makerspace and program of The Maker Effect Foundation, with tools for laser cutting, CNC routing, 3D printing, woodworking, metalworking, sewing, and embroidery. Its site also notes community projects, volunteering, and partnerships with organizations such as Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida.
- Prototype low-cost resilience, wayfinding, or event-support materials with MakerFX volunteers.
- Co-host a youth-friendly maker service project with a Central Florida community partner.
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Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a grassroots disaster-relief network organized around solidarity, mutual aid, autonomous direct action, decentralized local response, and support for frontline communities. Its history includes disaster supply distribution, cleanup, medical and wellness support, tool lending, sustainable rebuilding, and mutual-aid education, all closely aligned with BWB disaster-response values.
- Invite MADR trainers or organizers to help BWB Florida design mutual-aid disaster-preparedness workshops.
- Coordinate BWB volunteer support for locally led mutual-aid response only when requested by impacted communities or local MADR-linked groups.
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Catalyst Miami
Catalyst Miami works with Miami frontline communities on prosperity services, policy and engagement, leadership training, climate, housing, health, participatory budgeting, and community organizing. It is a strong community-based partner for a BWB Florida chapter seeking resident-informed projects rather than generic volunteerism.
- Support Catalyst Miami-led community events with volunteer logistics, supplies, or public-space activation.
- Ask Catalyst Miami to review BWB project ideas for community relevance before launching in Miami-Dade.
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Catalyst Miami Community Champions
Community Champions is Catalyst Miami’s neighborhood-based organizing initiative, bringing residents together to influence local investments and decisions, implement projects, improve infrastructure, engage local governments, and strengthen civic knowledge. This is a good pathway for BWB Florida to listen to neighborhood priorities before offering volunteer labor or creative infrastructure.
- Attend or support a resident-led listening session where BWB volunteers ask what practical help is actually wanted.
- Provide materials, volunteer labor, or event support for a Community Champions neighborhood project after resident priorities are set.
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Orange County Library System
Orange County Library System offers branches, classes and events, room and studio resources, learning and research support, social-worker services, and the Melrose Center. It could provide accessible public venues and programming infrastructure for Central Florida BWB workshops, repair events, resource fairs, or maker-adjacent civic education.
- Co-host a public preparedness, repair, or creative-reuse workshop at a library branch or studio space.
- Support library resource fairs with BWB volunteers, especially around hurricane prep, heat safety, or neighborhood resilience.
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