The Coast Guard Foundation has announced a partnership with Offshore Ale and its ‘Pints with Purpose’ fundraising program. The collaboration kicked off at the Foundation’s 2009 Annual Dinner tribute to the United States Coast Guard in Washington, DC, which celebrated the more than one million lives saved by the Coast Guard since its founding in 1790. Inspired by this heroic milestone, the Martha’s Vineyard brewery launched its ‘Penny A Pint’ program, now renamed ‘Pints with Purpose’, committing a percentage of its sales for one-million pints to fund the Coast Guard Foundation’s Enlisted Education Grants initiative.
Currently distributed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island with plans for future market expansion, sales of Offshore Ale’s East Chop Lighthouse Golden Ale and Menemsha Creek Pale Ale at any store, bar or restaurant support the Coast Guard Foundation’s higher education grants program. In the first year of the program commencing on June 1st, 2009, the brewery sold 55,000 pints followed by 59,520 in its second year, generating donations of nearly $2,300. Showing robust sales since the June 1st start of its third program year, Offshore Ale’s has forecasted impressive sales of 86,900 pints.
For more information on Offshore Ale’s ‘Pints With Purpose’ program, the Coast Guard Foundation or its Enlisted Education Grants program, please visit the Coast Guard Foundation website at www.coastguardfoundation.org.
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