2023:
- Stadionwelt: Berlin: Ticket kaufen und Gutes tun
- Impact Hub Berlin: Can sustainable food help strengthen diverse and inclusive communities?
- Visit Berlin: MUXMÄUSCHENWILD Birthday Bash #10
- Express UK: King and Queen tour
- Berliner Morgenpost: Überraschende Programmänderung für Camilla
- HHV Running Club: Road to Half
2022:
- Princeton University News: The global classroom: Princeton journalism class reports from Berlin on refugees and forced migration
- Exberliner: Home Is Where the Food Is Cooked (print)
- FORUM sozial: Die Lust am Gestalten gestalten (print)
- Create Digital Media: Beirut Synthesizer Center at Superbooth, on sharing and music in times of crisis
- Amal Berlin: !إن كنت ترغب بتعلم العزف على آلة موسيقية.. لم يفت الأوان
- Tagespiegel: „Geflüchtete Menschen wollen sich in ihrer Identität nicht als ‚Geflüchtete‘ fühlen, sondern als Menschen“
- Berliner Zeitung: Nach Ukraine-Begegnungstag in Markthalle Neun: „Die Hilfsbereitschaft schwindet“
- ITV: Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World – Berlin
- Das Erste/ARD: Deutsche Fernsehlotterie Wochenziehung
- Das Erste/ARD: Deutsche Fernsehlotterie Prämienziehung
- Mille Podcast: Interview with Ricarda Bochat about the Open Kitchen
- Presse Portal: „Give something back to Berlin“ wird vor der tagesschau vorgestellt
2021:
- Offenes Neukölln Festival: Refugio und Freund*innen
- Berliner Zeitung: Mit der Vespa durch Neukölln: Magic Island liefert den Sommer-Sound
2020:
- Berliner Zeitung: Give something back to Berlin – despite corona
- AFAR Magazine: In Berlin, travelers and recent immigrants connect across cultures
2019:
- U Magazine Hong Kong: Learn German, be a volunteer and integrate into society
- Mux Mäuschenwild: A 2-minute interview with Tom Young, Open Music School Manager
- Der Tagesspiegel: Ein Gefühl der Zusammengehörigkeit
2018:
- The Atlantic: How Berlin’s civil society organisations have risen up to meet the needs of their city’s newest arrivals (features the GSBTB Open English Café)
- Deutschlandfunk: Wie ausländische Fachkräfte Berlin verändern (tip!)
- Forum Magazin: Wo Welten sich treffen
- Yahoo Japan: Japanese Prime Minister’s wife visits Give Something Back to Berlin
- The Culture Trip: The most inspirational women in Berlin
- Mit Vergnügen: Volunteering in Berlin: 11 easy ways to help (auf Deutsch)
- New York University News: Students spent spring break volunteering with refugees in Berlin
- I Heart Berlin: Five alternative language classes in Berlin
- The Culture Trip: GSBTB Open Kitchen listed among the best cooking courses in Berlin
- The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Entrepreneur Lab: 7 tips for networking in Berlin
2017:
- The Guardian: Berliners get an appetite for refugees’ cuisine
- Ich selbständig: Interview with GSBTB founder Annamaria Olsson on women in entrepreneurship (tip!)
- Al Jazeera English: What Germany’s refugees think about the elections – Interview with GSBTB Volunteer Coordinator Eli Wael Khleifawi
- Financial Times: The new supper club for migrants
- Exberliner: The refugees that feed us (tip!)
- Enorm Magazin: “Nur Nehmen wollen die wenigsten” – Interview with GSBTB Executive Director Lucy Thomas (in German)
- Migration Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) podcast: Civil society in action
- Flux FM: Off the Record – GSBTB
- Info Migrants: Finding a place to live: a near impossible endeavour for refugees in Berlin
- Der Tagesspiegel: Aus den Fremden werden Freunde – Interview with GSBTB Executive Director Lucy Thomas (in German)
- Tele Sur: Migrants in Germany express concern over AfD’s rise (Spanish)
- Co-Matter Community Podcast: Building bridges between refugees and other migrants
- Open Migration: Integration in Germany after the elections (Italian)
- The New Arab: How mental health services are failing refugees across Germany
- Mux Mäuschenwild: Get to know our founder, Annamaria Olsson
- Hereyouare Berlin: Breaking borders, breaking bread: Berlin’s culinary exchange
- High Snobiety: How to move to Berlin
- Culture Strike: Berlin kitchens open up to refugees
- CurrencyFair: Volunteer opportunities for expats
2016:
In 2016 we won the top prize at the Intercultural Innovation Awards from UNAOC and BMW Group and were paid a visit by the King and Queen of Sweden. Our expertise was sought on community building, social innovation and global conflict.
- New York Times: Berlin Dinner Parties That Celebrate Refugees and Their Food
- United Nations News Centre: German community integration project wins UN intercultural innovation award
- Berliner Morgenpost: Schwedisches Königspaar besucht Berliner Geflüchtetenprojekt (video)
- Deutschlandradio Kultur: Initiative “Give Something Back to Berlin” ausgezeichnet
- New Statesman: Terror will not break Berlin’s open and tolerant spirit
- rbb-online: Initiative für soziales Miteinander ausgezeichnet
- Huck: Refugees and young Berliners are finding community through food (tip!)
- The Changer: Working Together for a Better City – and World (tip!)
- ImmobilienScout24: Hauptstadtengagement: Englischunterricht für geflüchtete
- Sveriges Radio Konflikt: Merkel och flyktingarna
- Capital magazine, New Zealand: An Afghan Adrift
- Alle Helfen Jetzt: Auf ins vierte Jahr: Team-Up bei Give Something Back to Berlin
- The Local: Brexit: ‘It won’t be romantic. But I need an EU passport’
- BZ: East Side Music Days Berlin
- Fräulein Magazine: Talent: Annamaria Olsson
- i-D: Das Sharehouse Refugio ist ein einzigartiges Projekt für Flüchtlinge und Kreative
- Washington Square News: New York University students travel to Berlin to volunteer with refugees
- Aidpreneur Podcast: Innovation for Social Impact (everything you ever wanted to know about how GSBTB was developed!)
- Comfort Zone Cookbook: Annamaria Olsson
- Mit Vergnügen: 11 tolle Berliner Initiativen und Vereine, die wir unterstützen sollten
- Berlin Loves You: Imagine Spending Christmas in An Airport, GSBTB Christmas Fundraising
- Almost Locals: Ser Voluntário em Berlim
- Berliner Morgenpost: Berliner CDU gründet Netzwerk zum interkulturellen Dialog
2015:
The GSBTB Refugee Cooking Group’s famous Sudanese stew made it into the Guardian, we discussed how Berlin’s creative community mucks in and let our community know we’d be sticking around long after the hype of the ‘refugee crisis’.
- The Guardian: Refugee tours tell a different Berlin story
- i-D: How Berlin’s creative community are responding to the refugee crisis
- Der Tagesspiegel: Neukölln: Wir geben Berlin etwas zurück
- Berliner Morgenpost: Wie sich kreative Neuberliner für die Hauptstadt engagieren
- ALEX TV: Interview with Give Something Back to Berlin (tip!)
- The Changer: Social Startup Guide
- I Heart Berlin: The Berlin Experts: Give Something Back to Berlin
- Stil in Berlin: FuGeeLa: Refugees in Berlin
- Focus: Neukölln stellt Flüchtlingsprojekte europäischen Experten vor
- Exberliner: Refugee special: Want to help? Then get offline!
- Reset.org: Diese Initiativen helfen Geflüchteten effektiv
- The Local: Five ways you can help refugees in Germany
- Ecoera: Cidadania: Conheça a platform Give Something Back to Berlin
- Huck: Meet the Berliners resisting the rise of the far right in Germany
- The Local: Arsonists hit pro-refugee art project
- E-Politik.de: Flüchtlinge in Berlin – Wie geht es weiter?
- Evangelisch.de: Internationale Neuberliner betreiben soziale Initiativen
- Exberliner: Helping out refugees
2014:
News of GSBTB’s involvement with the refugee rights movement made it all the way to Sweden and even New Zealand.
- Neuen Zürcher Zeitung: Additions in Berlin: Who owns the city?
- Sveriges Radio: Flyktingar i skolockupation kräver fler rättigheter
- Deutsche Welle: Sehnsuchtsort Berlin: zwei Gesichter einer Einwanderungsstadt
- The Changer: Striking Back Against Gentrification
- Berlin Loves You: Interview with Give Something Back to Berlin
- Fairplanet: Including Berliners from all walks of life
- Hack & Craft: Connecting collaborators – Not as easy as it looks
- New Zealand Herald: Rejected asylum-seekers in stand-off with police
- Taku – Finland’s Arts and Culture Trade Union: Anna Hyvän Kiertää
- Bitte Gerne: Blogpost in Italian
2013:
Our official launch was covered in media from local blogs to international press.
- Berliner Zeitung: Expats in Berlin: Raus aus der Blase
- Deutschlandfunk: Das Dankeschön der Kreativen
- Public Radio International: German Hipsters Not Winning Friends in Berlin
- 24trentedeux: Allowing new Berliners to be fully involved
- Überlin: Interview: Give Something Back to Berlin
- Finding Berlin: To Do: Summer in Berlin
- Don’t Panic: Gentrification is a worn out buzzword
- Überlin: Give Something Back to Berlin: The Official Launch!
- Hilker Berlin: Hilfe von Zugezogenen
- Rodeo.net: Vad är Give Something Back to Berlin?
- Art Berlin: Tausche Kreativität gegen soziales Engagement
- Expats Village: Strengthening expats’ reputation amongst local Berliners
- Good Impact: Forderung zweier Schweden: Berlin statt Bier
- VDI: Teilen ist für Berliner Start-ups eine Tugend
- Neues Deutschland: Zurückgeben leichtgemacht