Hi folks,
I, like most of you, receive probably at least a three or four requests a week asking me to donate beer to this-that-and-the-other local charity's latest "Won't Somebody Please Think of the ___" fundraiser. While I am generally in favor, both from a philanthropic and marketing standpoint, this still is, after all, a business. Don't need tax write-offs, we need cash up front. So I was wondering what sort of rules or protocols you all use to determine who gets what, and how much?
My current feeling is a 1/6 free to a good cause, with free tap/jockey use if they're local. Then a charity rate, similar to the wholesale rate, for anything beyond that?
Other ideas? Put them in a hat and draw a few out? Charity rate for all? Free beer within reason? Bah-humbug?
I, like most of you, receive probably at least a three or four requests a week asking me to donate beer to this-that-and-the-other local charity's latest "Won't Somebody Please Think of the ___" fundraiser. While I am generally in favor, both from a philanthropic and marketing standpoint, this still is, after all, a business. Don't need tax write-offs, we need cash up front. So I was wondering what sort of rules or protocols you all use to determine who gets what, and how much?
My current feeling is a 1/6 free to a good cause, with free tap/jockey use if they're local. Then a charity rate, similar to the wholesale rate, for anything beyond that?
Other ideas? Put them in a hat and draw a few out? Charity rate for all? Free beer within reason? Bah-humbug?
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