Since 2008, the brewery and its Left Hand Brewing Co. Foundation has raised over $2.9 million for charities. In 2016, Left Hand Brewing Co. in Longmont, Colorado, raised over $800,000 through a variety of channels.

Check out how Left Hand Brewing made it happen in our contributed article to PorchDrinking.com.

Last week on PorchDrinking.com, we shared how craft beer gave back to its communities in 2015 and using a variety of methods. One example is New Belgium Brewing and Ben & Jerry's collaboration which raised $100,000 for Protect Our Winters by creating both a beer product and an ice cream product. Other stories include Deschutes Brewery, Fort Collins Brewery, Ore Dock Brewing Company, 

You can read the article on PorchDrinking.com by clicking here.

Today we had a case study published on Craft Brewing Business detailing a fundraiser we worked on with Living The Dream Brewing Co. in March.  The case illustrates several benefits for charities and businesses to help each other where they can create a shared-value relationship.

From the fundraiser, some of the major outcomes included:

• Over $1,500 was raised for the NSCD. 
  
• More than 100 people attended the event.
  
• For Living The Dream, revenues were higher compared to an average Wednesday night.

You can read the case study on Craft Brewing Business here.

We were lucky enough to be able to contribute to Craft Brewing Business a second time. For this piece, we discussed how breweries can use five steps for starting or reorganizing its corporate social responsibility.

You can read the article here: http://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/business-marketing/brewery-corporate-social-responsibility/

Although it comes from a brewery perspective, the same principles can be used for all businesses. Here is an outline of our five step model:

Last week, we were lucky enough to talk about "The business benefits of working with charity"on Craft Brewing Business.

This week, we have even more craft beer and community analysis! Around the US, craft breweries are coming up with very creative ideas to help charities. Some of our favorites are Stone Brewing's comic book labels and Full Sail Brewing's Brewers series.

You can read the article here on PorchDrinking.com: http://www.porchdrinking.com/10-creative-ways-craft-beer-is-giving-back/