Our projects

BGR projects are designed both to provide emergency food aid and to promote greater food productivity at the grass-roots level. We partner with organizations that are already operating on the ground in areas of interest. >

Cambodia
Cambodia
RICE INTENSIFICATION
Provide village-scale training for intensified rice cultivation to rural farmers in five villages >
Kenya
Kenya
WOMEN’S TRAINING IN FARMING
Train 1,650 African women in the sustainable Grow Biointensive® method of farming >
Niger
Niger
BREASTFEEDING PROGRAM
Reduce malnutrition and mortality of children under two years of age in 18 villages of the Diffa Region >
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
GIRLS’ VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Provide education and skills to disadvantaged girls in order to attain sustainable livelihoods >
India
India
EDUCATE SLUM CHILDREN
Provide education, school supplies, and counseling for 200 slum children, mostly girls, in Nagpur >
• Cambodia
CRITICAL RICE SUPPORT Provide critical monthly rice support to enable poor families to keep their daughters in school >
• Cambodia
SEEDS AND TOOLS Provide families in Pursat with start-up farming kits of cash crop seeds and garden tools >
• Cambodia
AID FOR SEX WORKERS Support non-formal education class for sex workers and their children in Phnom Penh red light district >
• Haiti
MEALS FOR PORT-AU-PRINCE CHILDREN Supply thousands of nutritious meals to hungry children – often their only meal for the day >
• United States
PRODUCE FOR THE POOR Support local farms that grow fresh produce for emergency food agencies in the D.C. area >
• Vietnam
RICE INTENSIFICATION FOR RURAL FARMERS Support training in sustainable rice farming and developing field practice, self-development, and work group skills >
• Vietnam
FOOD FOR HOSPITAL PATIENTS Provide thousands of meals to poverty-stricken patients at an overcrowded, understaffed rural hospital >
• Vietnam
RED CROSS SCHOLARSHIPS Help children of the poorest of the poor in Tam Binh District and Cam Duong Commune attend primary and secondary school >

Leadership

Board of Directors

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Chairperson

W. David Braughton, Vice-Chairperson

Marcie Barth, Secretary

Thomas Spies, Treasurer

George Clapp

Charles Elliott

Allen Fu

Thomas Moritz

Patricia Price

Michael Roehm

Sister Santussika

Sylvie Sun

Executive Director

Kim Behan

Assistant Director

Carla Prater

Council of Advisers

Ven. Thich Tri Hoang
Abbot, Phap Nguyen Buddhist Congregation, Pearland, TX

Ven. Heng Sure
Pres., Dharma Realm Association; Managing Dir., Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, CA

Ven. Bhikkhu Buddharakkhita
Founder, Uganda Buddhist Ctr., Uganda; spiritual dir., Flowering Lotus Meditation Ctr.

Rev. Joan Hogetsu Hoeberichts
Abbot, Heart Circle Sangha, Ridgewood, NJ; psychotherapist

Gil Fronsdal
Primary teacher, Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City, CA; author

Andrew Harvey
Founder, Institute for Sacred Activism, mystical scholar, spiritual teacher, author

Professor David Loy
Author, Professor of Philosophy, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

Michael Roehm
Senior International Student Adviser, American University, Washington DC

Sharon Salzberg
Meditation teacher, New York, NY; author

Professor Jan Willis
Author, Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

 

Biographies of Board Members and Directors

Biographies of Advisers