November Event - City Tap House with Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center

After a month filled with goblins and ghouls, you can look forward to one event that doesn't require a costume to attend!  Join us on Tuesday, November 1st for our next happy hour.  We'll be testing out the SCP waters in University City and gathering at City Tap House.  They are generously donating a free drink (including their $3 drafts list, house wine and their Infusion cocktails) plus appetizers for our crowd.  The proceeds will support our city's Veterans through the Philadelphia Veteran's Multi-Service & Education Center (PVMSEC).  As usual, the suggested donation is $10.  And do you know what the PVMSEC can do with $10?  A lot!  $10 can provide 10 meals for Veterans or three comfort bags for formerly homeless Veterans to welcome them to their new apartments.  So join us in November to both recognize and support our Veterans! The fun runs from 5:30-8pm.

As a side note, we are a mere $740 from hitting the $5000 mark for total dollars raised since we started SCP.  Thanks to those of you who have helped along the way (and to those of you who will participate in the future)!  Drinking really does add up!  

Fantastic showing for Women Against Abuse!

Sorry to be slow with this post-event update (A week?  Egads! I blame the post-Phillies phunk.)  We're excited to share that we raised a whopping $750 for Women Against Abuse at The Perch Pub.  A big thank you to Perch Pub for their awesome beer selection and delicious food (yum-o!).  Of course the biggest thank you goes to all of you who came out and to our lovely host for October, Kim Graham!  As usual we loved seeing new faces and hope to see them again at a future event.

In November we'll be supporting our Veteran's at City Tap House (University City).  Be on the lookout for more details!

October Event - Perch Pub with Women Against Abuse

October's Happy Hour (Oct. 4) is just around the corner. In one week we'll be gathering at Perch Pub with proceeds to benefit Women Against Abuse. Whether the cause is near to your heart, the weather has you itching to get out and spend some quality time with your friends (and making more) or you just want a great spot to pre-game for the Phillie's Play-Off (100 wins, baby!), we want to see you! Perch Pub will be providing a free drink and appetizers for your $10, going directly to Women Against Abuse.

We also want to send some special SCP love to Kim Graham who has been a constant supporter at our events and this month will play the roll of hostess. So if you know Kim, do her a favor and come, and if you don't know Kim...you better come and meet her! We look forward to seeing you starting at 5:30pm.

Rain, Rain didn't get in C2C's Way!

Well, that was a dark and stormy night!  And while turnout wasn't quite as strong as usual, the giving spirit was in full effect.  A big thanks to everyone who braved the wet weather to support Cradles to Crayons and to The Dark Horse for serving up some seriously delicious apps and drinks last night.  You helped us raise the bar once again with a whopping....drum roll please...$800!  That's right, fewer people and more money.  Of course, a lot of that has to do with the generous support of Guaranteed Abstract Corporation who was our sponsor for the night.  So yay for C2C, yay for Dark Horse, yay for Guaranteed Abstract and yay to YOU! 

We hope to see everyone at the next event on Tuesday, October 4th (which we promise will have better weather...because how could it be worse?!).  More details will follow. 

September Event - The Dark Horse Pub with Cradles to Crayons

In July you celebrated your post-Independence with us.  In September, we want to celebrate your...post-Labor?  Our next event is on Tuesday, September 6th (the day after Labor Day) and we want to see you there!  Why not add one final party to your three day weekend?  Not only will you get to unwind from that one tough day at the office, but you'll also be supporting the amazing efforts of Cradles to Crayons.   You'll also be supporting a city favorite, The Dark Horse Pub (heck yeah, we are shifting the party away from Center City this time).  The fine folks there are offering one free drink and a bevvy of snacks to all those in attendance.  All for the low, low suggested donation of $10!  Festivities kick of at 5:30pm and run until 8pm (officially...we know some of you like to hang for longer!)

Finally, we want to give a big shout out to Guaranteed Abstract who will be our corporate partner for this event.  They will help us further maximize our social efforts!

And as always, don't forget to invite your friends and connect with us on  Facebook and the newly created Twitter account (#drinkupgiveback).  Any questions, inquiries about involvement and suggestions can be sent to scphila@gmail.com.

Holy Do-Gooding with the Drueding Center!

What a phenomenal turn out for our August event!  We were super excited to see a bunch of new faces, as well the familiar ones, at Jose Pistolas.  The drinks were flowing, the chips were crunching and the dollars were adding up.  Thanks to your participation we raised a record high $645 for the Drueding Center!

Thanks to Jose Pistolas (and bartender Jose) and the awesome volunteers from The Drueding Center for a really great event!  See everyone in September.

Save the Date for September

In August you rose to the challenge and helped us raise our largest amount for one night thus far.  In an effort to keep up the momentum and rise above any post Labor Day laziness, we want to make sure you have September's event firmly marked on your calendars!

We'll be circling the wagons at the Dark Horse (yeah, that's right...we're attempting a non-Center City location) to benefit Cradles to Crayons, just in time for the start of a new school year, on Tuesday, September 6th.  See you there!