2026 Burners Give Back

After your burn
Give back.To Pyramid Lake families and elders.

17th Annual Pyramid Lake Paiute Community Food Drive & 15th Annual Burners Give Back Fundraiser

For 17 years, Burners Give Back has been a labor of love, helping Burners give back to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Community we travel through on the way to and from Black Rock City.

Donate any food you or your camp have left after your burn to Pyramid Lake Paiute families and elders. Financial donations support the Pyramid Lake Victim Services Program.

Donate Food Donate Funds

Burners Give Back 2026 poster for individuals and camps: after your burn, give back to Pyramid Lake families and elders.

Two ways to give back

Donate food. Donate funds.

#1

Donate Food

Bring any food you or your camp have left after the Burn to Bunny’s Tacos, 203 Corral Rd in Nixon, NV during exodus (September 5–9, 2026), for redistribution to local Pyramid Lake Paiute families and elders.

See what to bring

#2

Fund Shelter, Healing & Recovery

Help people affected by violence or victimization find a place to sleep, a ride to safety, or an advocate to talk to.

Financial donations support the Pyramid Lake Victim Services Program.

Donate

About the fundraiser

Donate food

Donate any food you or your camp have left after your burn to Pyramid Lake Paiute families and elders.

Recent fires and extended power outages caused food and essential-supply losses for Pyramid Lake Paiute families.

What to donate

Perishable and nonperishable food
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Refrigerated and frozen food
Canned and boxed food
Bread, eggs, and other useful groceries
Water and nonalcoholic beverages
Hygiene products
Useful household essentials

Where to donate

Bunny’s Tacos
203 Corral Rd
Nixon, NV 89424
September 5–9, 2026

Camps striking later may deliver through September 30.

Keep cold food cold.
Keep frozen food frozen.
No alcohol, please.
No spoiled food, trash, or opened items that can’t be redistributed.

Please coordinate large, refrigerated, frozen, unusual, or late donations with Maureen Pancho at mpancho142@gmail.com.

After your burn, give back

15th Annual Pyramid Lake Paiute Community Fundraiser

Your donation can help someone find a place to sleep, a ride to safety, an advocate to talk to, counseling, support for their children, or simply someone who will answer when they ask for help.

Financial donations support the Pyramid Lake Victim Services Program, which provides confidential services and resources for people affected by violence or victimization, including emergency shelter, counseling, advocacy, transportation, children’s advocacy, and support groups.

The program also operates Tamme Pea Nobe, Our Mothers’ House, a seven-day-a-week shelter.

Comfort & Joy serves as fiscal sponsor for the fundraiser.

Donate Share the fundraiser

Volunteer

Volunteer.

Help with outreach, coordination, transport, communications, fundraising, documentation, design, or other campaign work.

Share BurnersGiveBack.us with your camp lead and kitchen crew before strike so food donation can be planned before departure.

Buy local

Buy local on your way in and on your way out.

You pass through Nixon and Wadsworth on the way to and from Black Rock City. When you can, stop locally.

Where to buy

Eat at Bunny’s Tacos when they are open
Purchase fuel and supplies at the tribal stores in Wadsworth and Nixon
Visit the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Museum and Visitors Center
Stop at Empire Store
Eat at Bruno’s

Know a local business we left off? Let us know.

Bunny’s Tacos

203 Corral Rd
Nixon, NV 89424

Bunny’s is the food drop-off location during Exodus and a local business. Buy a fry bread taco when they’re open.

Community connection

Pyramid Lake Spiritual Healing Center

Learn about the work of the Pyramid Lake Spiritual Healing Center.

Visit the Pyramid Lake Spiritual Healing Center

Why this exists

Seventeen years of giving back.

Every year, Burners travel through Wadsworth and Nixon on the way to and from Black Rock City.

For 17 years, Burners Give Back has helped turn that journey home into a chance to do something good for our neighbors in the Pyramid Lake Paiute Community.

Burners have donated food after their burn to Pyramid Lake Paiute families and elders, volunteered their time, helped spread the word, and raised funds for important community needs.

It has always been a labor of love, built by people choosing to help.

This year, you can be part of it. Donate food. Donate funds. Share it with your camp.

Share

Tell your camp before strike.

Food you or your camp have left after your burn is easier to donate when camps plan before strike. Share the campaign early enough for camp and kitchen leads to include donation in their departure plan.

Send this page to your camp lead and to whoever runs your kitchen, before you break camp.
Post it in your camp’s Facebook group or group chat so everyone sees it, not just the organizers.
Save the graphic that fits your audience and post it where your people already talk.

Every button in a group posts the same campaign page, so the graphics below only carry what belongs to the picture itself: save it, or hand it straight to another app.