We are grateful to the volunteer leaders and doers who come together to make these activities possible! Regular monthly events in Bohol, our home base, is covered by our monthly newsletter at Sprout Up, Bohol!. Here, we cover milestone gatherings, and activities we do with community leaders in other provinces.
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Anik-Anik: Todo Na 2 – Bringing Bohol’s Creative Community Together
Anik-Anik: Todo Na 2 brought together almost 700 visitors, local makers, artists, and creative businesses for a two-day celebration of Boholano creativity. Discover how collaboration, community support, and shared experiences are helping grow Bohol’s creative ecosystem.
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Community Leaders Retreat 2026: Leading Through Care and Connection
The Community Leaders Retreat 2026 brought together 18 community leaders from nine provinces for two days of connection, reflection, and shared learning in Pampanga. Discover how the gathering celebrated mutual support, strengthened grassroots innovation communities, and created space for the people behind community building to learn and grow.
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Startup Weekend Bohol 2026 Women Edition: Turning Ideas Into Action
Startup Weekend Women Bohol 2026 brought together 42 participants across eight teams to turn ideas into potential solutions. Discover how collaboration, mentorship, and community support are creating more opportunities for women innovators and entrepreneurs in Bohol.
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Anik-Anik Pilot Event: Bringing Bohol’s Creative Community Together
The Anik-Anik Pilot Event brought together 12 local vendors and over 200 visitors at Friends Cafe in Tagbilaran City. Discover how this first creative pop-up supported Boholano artists and makers, generated vendor earnings, and helped strengthen Bohol’s growing creative community.
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Community Leaders Retreat 2025: Creating Space for Leaders to Learn, Connect, and Grow
The Community Leaders Retreat 2025 brought together 24 community leaders from six provinces for two days of learning, reflection, and connection. Discover how the gathering tackled the challenges of community building, strengthened peer support, and inspired more sustainable rural innovation communities across the Philippines.
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Turning Ideas Into Action: Startup Weekend Bohol 2025
Techstars Startup Weekend Bohol 2025 brought together 81 participants across 14 teams for 54 hours of collaboration, innovation, and startup building. Discover how local innovators developed ideas into potential solutions and contributed to strengthening Bohol’s rural innovation community.
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Community Leaders’ Retreat 2024
Officially titled “Innovation Community Builders Unconference 2024”, this event name is due to be improved upon in future editions. Overview On October 13, 2024 we held the first instance of the Community Leaders’ Retreat. Attended by 20 community leaders from Bohol, Cebu, Pampanga, and Davao, the activity aimed to enable these grassroots leaders to ideate,…
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Building Beyond the Capital: Startup Weekend Bohol 2024
Techstars Startup Weekend Bohol 2024 brought together 51 participants to turn innovative ideas into potential business solutions in just 54 hours. Discover how local innovators collaborated, developed startup concepts, and helped strengthen Bohol’s growing rural innovation community.
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Sprout Up Bohol’s Methodology So Far
The structure we are presenting our methodology through is based on the Community Weaving Framework co-created by Fabian Pfortmüller, Sascha Mombartz and Nico Luchsinger.