Promote your event
- Promote your event early and promote your often!
- Create a Facebook event 6-8 weeks prior to your Tending for a Cause; add Beaver Island as a co-host if possible: business pages can add us, personal pages cannot. Let us know so we can add to our page.
- Share the event on social media, your website, or calendar.
- Invite your friends, family, customers, etc., to the event.
- Print posters, postcards, flyers, or other assets.
- Use Canva.com for free design help!
- Arrive at 4:30 for basic beer-tender training. If you need to come earlier for setup, please make prior arrangements. Tending events are 5PM-7PM (no exceptions).
- As a guest beer-tender, you will be required to run the register, along with pouring and serving pints of beer.
- Try to familiarize yourself with our beer lineup. It can be found on our Taproom page.
- Only 2 guest beer-tenders are allowed behind the bar (no “shift” changes). We encourage having additional people representing your charity to mingle with patrons; it’s a great way to talk about your company and your cause.
- Food and entertainment are an option. Let us know if you will be taking advantage of either.
- We recommend Jules’ Bistro, Green Mill, Bravo Burritos or House of Pizza. Contact them, or other places, to get pricing and information.
- If you supply your own food, such as nachos or pretzels, it is best to ask for a donation to generate more revenue.
- We can supply an 8′ or 4′ table for food. You must provide your own serving dishes, utensils, napkins, etc.
- Be mindful that the Taproom is a small space. Musical guests are limited to 3 people and are allotted an 8′ x 8′ space. Acoustic or plug into house sound only (bring your own mixer but no speakers.)
- Your chosen 501c3 nonprofit will receive a check within six to eight weeks after your event via USPS. Please provide official Nonprofit Name & Address when you apply.
- If you’re raising funds for an event, such as a run or bike ride, let us know so we can add your name to the memo of the check.
- Tending will go on as scheduled each week, regardless of rain, shine, snow, or cold.
vital info to mention
Important information to highlight when promoting your event:
- From 5PM-7PM $1 from every pint sold, and all tips/free-will donations, go to your organization
- Names of celebrity beer-tenders
- A few sentences about the cause and/or what the donated money will be used for
- A link to your website (or the nonprofit website) for further information
- Food, entertainment or additional items available
Create a unique Facebook event cover photo.
(size = 500 x 252 pixels or 1920 x 1080 pixels / ratio of 16:9)
Check out Canva.com, a free online design tool
(Below are some past examples.)
Feel free to use one of our logos
