We have strong relationships with multiple businesses around the greater Baton Rouge area, so we will often gather at and host events to drink & enjoy bourbon. We prioritize supporting our partners as well as connecting with other local businesses and distilleries to pass a good time. We hold monthly get-togethers, quarterly socials, and pop-up events throughout the year. We quickly adapted to the challenge of 2020 with virtual meet- ups/sample sharing and have hosted some of the biggest distilleries and whiskey producers in the country. While our initial focus was on the comradery of the spirit, our biggest focus is raising money for local charities, and we work hard to back it up.
In 2019, we raised $2,650 for our local YMCA at a unique Four Roses tasting event and $15,000 in combined donations & toys for our local Marines Toys for Tots organization. For 2020 we took it up a notch. We raised $8,500 for our local bartenders who were out of work due to the strain of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown. With the Pandemic still in full swing, we raised $12,840 for Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area and we raised a total of $35,600 for our local Toys for Tots chapter. In 2021, BSoBR Foundation hosted a Folds of Honor Raffle in March and raised $15,000 for this amazing Veterans charity. We also raised $28,650 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Mississippi & Louisiana, $10,000 for Boys & Girls Club of Metro Louisiana, $20,850 for Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area and over $64,000 for our local Toys for Tots Chapter in December.
We continued our fundraising efforts 2022. We raised $15,320 for Woman's Hospital Foundation and $43,430 in toys and donations for Toys for Tots. Our inaugural Louisiana Bourbon Festival raised $30,000 for Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area.
All in, we raised $108,570 in 2023, which brought our overall total to over $400,000 since incorporation in 2019.