Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Free The Grapes!

Protect Consumer Choice! Opposing HR 5034!
"What is H.R. 5034?
HR 5034 is special-interest legislation that pretends to protect the public and reaffirm states’ rights, but is really intended to put more money in the wholesaler middlemen’s pockets by doing an end-run around the U.S. Supreme Court and pre-empting the Constitution. It would give wholesalers unfettered monopoly power to pass discriminatory state laws that would remove your ability to buy wine directly from your favorite winery or merchant. It would harm your state’s wineries, brewers and distillers, as well as businesses, jobs, and state and local economies."

READ MORE at FreeTheGrapes.Org

Total Wine's Drink Pink Event!

Total Wine is featuring Wines that support Breast Cancer Research.
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So read up,
Buy some pink
and
then
DRINK PINK!

Friday, July 30, 2010

ISAW Foundation Media Project Fundraiser

ISAW 1K 4C: 1,000 People for $100
Take the challenge! This spring, thousands of people across the country were introduced to the ISAW Foundation and our mission of using wine to create economic opportunity for Africans through our Drink Well Do Good Campaign. This summer, we spent seven weeks in South Africa on the M’hudi Estate working on research and media development. With the help of our media partner Clear Films, we captured over 100 hours of footage in what is the most comprehensive collection of film that has ever been dedicated to the subject of black vintners, farmers, and black empowerment viticultural projects.

ISAW will use this media to help black entrepreneurs get their product to the US market, and engage Foundations, donors, and corporations for the financial support needed to develop the ISAW Training Center on the M’hudi Estate—South Africa’s first black‐owned vineyard. We need your help to develop the media and the school! As an incentive, if you help our Foundation, we’ll help you start your wine cellar! Here’s how:
1. Raise $100: It’s that simple! Please note that this is not asking you to personally give $100, we just need you to pledge your support to help raise it. Tell your friends, family, and co‐workers
that you have taken the challenge and that you need their help. $10, $20, $50, anything…once
you reach $100 you get a free bottle of delicious South African wine on us! Share it with
those who helped you raise it!
2. Recruit one more; win more wine! Each new donor you get, you will receive a new bottle
How to Donate
• Collect payments from your collaborators
• Submit your contribution via check to ISAW Foundation PO BOX 5502 Atlanta, GA 31107 OR
• Submit your payment online at www.toastafrica.com and clicking the icon that says SUPPORT
• If you are mailing a check, make sure you include your name, address, email, and phone number so we can get you your wine.

To help kickstart the initative, Emory University will match our donations until August 1st.

Also, check out this awesome profile of Mhudi on CBS
Thank you a million times over for all of your support. Thank you thank you thank you! I hope that you can see from all of our progress that we couldn't do it without you!

Also here is the Drink Well Do Good Trailer

Drink Well, Do Good,
Stephen A. Satterfield
ISAW Founder
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CONGRATULATIONS!
The TWITs and friends raised $200 for ISAW Foundation before August 1st!

Monday, February 15, 2010

ISAW Event at Emily Amy Gallery - February 24th, 2010



Join us for an event that will tantalize your taste buds
& satisfy your hunger for social change! ISAW will be
providing us with a selection of wines to taste, and
TWITs will be providing hors de oeuvres and other
snacks. The Emily Amy Gallery has graciously donated
their beautiful space for this special event!

100% of your tax-deductible contribution will benefit ISAW,
an organization dedicated to diminishing poverty &
inequality in South Africa by partnering with black-owned
& socially-progressive vineyards to support the socioeconomic development of African farmers & their communities.

$20 per person suggested donation. To reserve your tasting: Please go to www.toastafrica.com and click on Support. In Step 1 fill in $20 (per person) in the blank field or make an even more generous donation! Once you receive a confirmation for your contribution, please print it out and bring it with you to the tasting.

Thank you! We look forward to Drinking Well and Doing Good with you!

To learn more about your hosts for this event, please visit:

http://www.isawfoundation.org/
http://www.emilyamygallery.com/
TWITs Wine Club (The Winos In Training)

Abbie's Tasting Notes:

1) M'hudi Sauvignon Blanc - light, acidic, multi-layered wine, hints of honeysuckle, pineapple, and to use Stephen's word "herbacious" - pairs well with goat cheese.

2) M'hudi Pinotage - my fave! smoky nose and tastes divine. Perfectly plummy, red wine, purple in color, light yet flavorful. The smokiness would pair well with southern barbeque or smoked/grilled meats.

3) Seven Sisters Odelia - Bukettraube - melon, lychee notes, a light off-dry treat that would be an amazing dessert wine, or perfect for a summer's day.

Photography of this event courtesy of Matthew Lane of Zazen Photo LLC.