Explore Panama offers volunteers with the unique opportunity to experience sustainable development methodologies and programs (specifically, Global Brigades’ Business and Environmental programs). The Brigade is an opportunity to apply your knowledge and passion to make meaningful impact, as well as gain real-world experience working along-side technicians and community members.

Business Brigades at the University of Richmond is a discipline of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The U of Richmond chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran, Panamanian, and Ghanaian community members annually. Business Brigades is a program within Global Brigades. Business Brigades empowers rural communities in Panama, without access to financial services and business guidance, by providing micro-enterprise consulting, financial planning assistance and strategic investment.