With winter finally loosening its grip, Surly Gives a Damn (our brewery’s charitable arm) is kicking into high gear. In addition to our year-round indoor projects, we can now get to work on community gardens, environmental cleanup, and more.
As we do that, we wanted to put a ribbon on our 2022 efforts. Our SGAD volunteers never cease to amaze us, giving blood, sorting food, and building entire damn houses. Together, here’s what we accomplished last year:
- Hours: 2,425
- Volunteers: 447
- New Volunteers: 237!
- Non-Profits Served: 21 (including new partners Rainbow Health, Minneapolis Public Schools, and the Raccoon River Valley Trail Association)
- Total Projects: 50
- Cash, Merchandise, and Beer Donations to Non-Profits: $71,187
- Funds Raised by SGAD Community:
- Special Olympics: $4,680
- Second Harvest: $1,989
- The Food Group: $1,838
- Memorial Blood Center Blood Drive: 218 units, 654 lives saved/sustained
- House That Beer Built: 598 hours
- Trees Planted: 115
- Keystone Community Services: 1,936 families served (600 backpacks, 1,336 meals distributed)
- The Food Group: 902 lbs of food donated
- Bridging: 254 hours of service
- Minneapolis Public Schools: 1200 Thanksgiving meals donated
- City of Duluth: 1300 feet of STH trail built
- Everymeal: SGAD Donation Garden grew and donated 1,272 lbs (1,060 meals) of fresh produce
- Toys for Tots: 100 toys donated
- Living Well Disability Services: Landscaped 2 residential homes
- FB4K: Cleaned & fixed 206 bikes
- Raccoon River Trail: Picked up 35 bags of garbage
