BNProject

BNProject is short for Buy Nothing Project. The Buy Nothing Project was born in 2013 when friends Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller created the first gift economy group for their community as an experiment. The experiment was wildly successful and soon many more groups were formed (The Global Movement) and currently the total number of community groups exceeds 5000 and involves the work of over 11000 volunteers in more than 40 countries. In 2020, the BNProject founders released their first book The Buy Nothing Get Everything Plan, and gave many copies to volunteers to share with the members of the community groups they steward. In 2021, they launched a beta version of the Buy Nothing App, a new platform that allows for gift economy groups to exist outside of Facebook.

As stated in the About page of the official BNProject website The Buy Nothing Project is about setting the scarcity model of our cash economy aside in favor of creatively and collaboratively sharing the abundance around us.

"A gift economy’s real wealth is the people involved and the web of connections that forms to support them. "