• Posted May 17, 2017

Bricks to Bread: The Next Step

In a few weeks Bricks to Bread Board President, Nancy Alvarado, will travel to Costa Rica on a scouting trip for the recipients of oven number two and assist in completing the final stage of oven one. She will also be meeting with several agencies that have expressed interest in partnering with our cause. This […]
  • Posted May 16, 2017

Bricks to Bread is now on AmazonSmile

Bricks to Bread now has an AmazonSmile account. If you are already an avid Amazon shopper you can sign up to have 0.5% of your total purchase amount donated to Bricks to Bread. All you need to do is set Bricks to Bread as your charitable organization of choice. Every little bit helps; especially if […]
  • Posted April 27, 2017

San Marcos Spring Update

Hello everyone! We just received another update from the family that received our first oven in San Marcos. At Bricks to Bread we believe accountability is key to ensuring the success of our ovens. Laura and Cristina Perez are doing an amazing job at keeping us informed about how their business is growing and what […]
  • Posted November 1, 2016

Nonprofit Bricks to Bread Connects St. Louis Park and Costa Rican Village

BY Maggie Soucheray Sonnek From the November 2016 St. Louis Park Magazine issue From the moment I walked into the Alvarado house, I felt welcomed. The smell of percolating coffee on the counter, pictures of smiling faces covering the walls—I felt like I was walking into an old friend’s house, not someone I hadn’t yet […]
  • Posted October 28, 2016

Loaves of Love: A Mission to Change

October 28, 2016 by Mainstream Boutique The story of how one woman packed up her kids and comfortable city life and traded it in for a remote Costa Rican village, and how it has changed her life. Calm in the Chaos Warm, enticing scents of fresh baked bread, locally harvested honey and softened butter wait […]
  • Posted May 1, 2016

Bricks to Bread is now a 501(c)(3)

We are very excited to announce that Bricks to Bread is now a 501(c)(3), which means your donations are now tax deductible! We are incredibly thrilled with our new status! We are also working on a new marketing campaign, several fundraising events, and preparing for our next build. We will be providing more updates as […]
  • Posted March 23, 2015

Perez Family Update

So what does Bricks to Bread have going on in 2015? The Pérez Family has gone through some hard times since we built their oven. Although their baking business has been a huge success, it has gone from a way supplement their income to something they have to rely on heavily. Large industry moved into […]
  • Posted May 17, 2013

Brick by Brick – Firing Up Community

By North House Folk School There’s a wood-fired brick oven in Costa Rica, and the oven’s Lake Superior keystone isn’t its only connection with the North Shore. The oven was built last summer by North House students Jeff Larson and Nancy Alvarado. Nancy was a PeaceCorps volunteer in the rural village of San Marcos de […]
  • Posted October 1, 2012

Costa Ricans Grateful for Great Bread from New Brick Oven

By Nancy Lilienthal, Minnesota Energy Resources Senior External Relations Manager Jeff Larson recently co-led a team with friend Nancy Alvarado to raise funds and travel to Costa Rica to build a brick-and-concrete bread oven in the country’s northern rain forest. Nancy served in the Peace Corps in San Marcos de Cutris and had maintained contact […]
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