Drink up for charity
November 11, 2008 | Author: Paul Sullivan | Filed under: News
Charity begins at home, so goes the adage. But I wrote a story in the New York Times today that argues that throwing a party for a cause is the way to go. Given these tough times, it’s no wonder: stay at home and ponder the sick state of the economy, or run out to a bar? Not a tough choice. One of the guys I interviewed, Jonathan Horowitz, co-owner of the Tasting Room in Houston, decided to help the Red Cross one beer at a time. What else, in the wake of Hurricane Ike, would someone without power and a tree in their house want to do but have a drink, happy that a dollar was going to charity and happier still that he, well, had a drink? Likewise, Brian Mak rallied his friends to the party philanthropy cause with: “Let’s not drink our money away. Let’s drink our money away and donate some of it to a charitable organization.” In these tough times, it’s as good of a cri de coeur as any.
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