Our team aspired to add value to our city before we’d ever brewed a drop of beer. 3 years later, our community impact programming sometimes looks like raising money to combat hunger, poverty, and homelessness, and other times like creating exhibition and enrichment opportunities for our local arts community. We’re still learning and expanding, but whatever lay ahead, we hope our city is better off because we’re here.
Advantage Behavioral Health provides intervention, treatment, and counseling to individuals experiencing behavioral health issues.
The Athens Area Homeless Shelter provides comprehensive services to homeless families working toward sustainable independence.
The Athens Community Council on Aging serves our senior population through advocacy, engagement, and support programming.
The Ark serves our neighbors in financial crisis, helping to move them toward stability through financial literacy and microlending.
Through a community of volunteers, Mercy Health Center provides quality whole-person healthcare to our underserved neighbors.
Chosen For Life educates and equips communities to love and care for orphans through adoption grants and foster care initiatives.
Since opening our doors in 2014, we have aspired to leverage our brand and our people to add value to the Athens community. With a commitment to community being one of our founding pillars, we created the Get Comfortable campaign in order to work alongside local nonprofits who address the community’s most pressing needs.
We wanted to determine a way to serve our community before we’d ever brewed a drop of beer, and this commitment remains one of our core values today. Should, for instance, the definition of community be understood as something that is strictly geographical, an allegiance that dissipates at the borders of one’s neighborhood or state line?
Broadside Collective Application
The Broadside Exhibition Project is an annual show of curated collaborations between poets and artists. The project’s first iteration, Verse 1, will be displayed across multiple locations in Athens in March and April 2018. Up to 20 pairs of poets and visual artists will be selected to collaborate and create original broadsides together.