Events

These public forums are a chance for us to discuss the recent financial loss Go Fund Bean has sustained. We'll cover what happened and open the floor to questions. Please feel free to bring your concerns, your questions, and your ideas for the future. 

Please note that the October 10th session will be recorded for anyone who can't join us live.

GFB Public Forum

Get ready to spice up your coffee lingo with Spanish for Coffee People! 

This summer class series is designed to help you communicate with Spanish-speaking industry professionals and customers alike. Grab your favorite cup of joe and join us for a lively series of learning and laughter.

Hosted by the dynamic duo of Go Fund Bean and Sandra Loofbourow, this event promises to be a fiesta of language learning. Whether you're a barista looking to connect with Spanish-speaking customers, a coffee professional wanting to broaden your career horizons, or just someone who loves learning new things, this event is for you. We'll be meeting on Zoom, so you can join us from the comfort of your own home. So, come along, let's party with words and brew up some Spanish coffee vocabulary together!

Nope! We'll take you through Spanish basics like pronunciation to help you hit the ground running!

Sure! If you already know Spanish basics and want to skip ahead to lesson two, that's fine with us. 

I can't afford all six classes right now... Help! 

We've set up a pay-by-class system just for you. Pay for what you can when you can. Registration will close the night before class starts.

Also, if you register by July 16 you'll get 10% off all classes. Use code EARLY at check out.  

No, these lessons do depend on people showing up in person. However, class materials will be available to you no matter what. 

Life happens, shift coverage falls through! We get it! Don't worry if you miss a class. However more than two absences may mean that your spot is forfeit to someone else on the waitlist. 

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Spanish for Coffee People

 is joining Go Fund Bean to help hourly coffee workers figure out how to negotiate pay and raises. Whether you're moving into a new position or asking for a raise in your current one, learning how to think about the math and approach your manager is key. 

As always, classes are free for hourly coffee professionals and pay-what-you-can for everyone else. 

 to support, uplift, and defend hourly coffee workers! 

 for interviews and articles about big ideas in coffee, the service industry, and collective action.

Bean Development: Negotiating Pay with Ashley Rodriguez

Bean 4 Bean Workshop - Branding in Coffee with Luke Waite

After a full weekend at SCA Expo, we invite you to come unwind and dance the stress away at Go Fund Bean’s Coffee Prom Fundraiser.

This is our biggest fundraiser yet and we hope you’ll join us for an evening of unforgettable festivities and less drama than your high school prom. The theme is “Swag,” which is open to interpretation. Outfits and costumes fit for the theme are highly encouraged. 

🎟️ Included in your ticket ($20-$40+):

Our event venue is the historic McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom. At over a century old, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Place, and features one of the few remaining mechanical dance floors in the US. A fully restored floor, experiencing it has been described “like dancing on clouds.”

Ticket prices are on a sliding scale with a $20 minimum and $40 suggestion. Anything beyond is more than welcomed. Only a limited number of tickets will be sold at the door, so we highly recommend reserving a spot now. All ticket purchases and silent auction sales will be considered charitable donations toward Go Fund Bean’s programming to support, uplift, and defend the hourly coffee worker.

Our exciting silent auction includes coffee swag, online lessons, and all-expenses-paid vacation packages. Only attendees will get a chance to win them! 

Go Fund Bean is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to supporting, uplifting, and defending hourly coffee workers. We uplift the coffee community through programs like Disaster Relief Grants, Bean for Bean mentorship, and low-cost mental health care through our Stay Grounded Initiative. All money spent at Coffee Prom will support these programs. 

Go Fund Bean's First Annual Coffee Prom 

To thank baristas for their hard work during Expo. Go Fund Bean will be providing Portland-area working baristas with 3 free prepared meals for them to take home and eat during Expo weekend! This program is generously supported by 

Use the RSVP form to order 3 meals free of charge from Go Fund Bean starting now. Meals will be ordered from 

, with vegan and vegetarian options available. 

Orders are limited to 25 baristas, so order soon!

 The order form will close at noon Pacific on Saturday April 15th, 2023.

Pick-up will be on Friday, April 21st from 4 pm - 6 pm. 

Everyone who orders a meal will also automatically get 1 ticket to enter our raffle at 

. Additional raffle tickets can be purchased: 1 ticket for $5 and 5 tickets for $20. Proceeds will go to Go Fund Bean’s mission to support, uplift, and defend hourly coffee workers.

Feeding Portland

Ready to start harnessing the power of the media for your event business? Wondering why everyone else always seem to be in the news? 

Media outlets don't usually just stumble across people doing cool things! They hear about events or initiatives and then pursue the story. When your business is unknown, the easiest way to catch a media outlet's attention is through a press release.

Valorie Clark has been writing press releases for Go Fund Bean and other small businesses for over four years. She's used the power of good press releases to ensure that GFB has 

 had to spend money on an advertising budget but still got our message out there.

In this Bean Development class, she'll teach you 

how to write a great press release that earns headlines. 

There will about an hour of information and then we'll have plenty of time at the end for a Q&A sesh. 

this class is free for hourly coffee workers and pay-what-you-can for everyone else

Any donation you make during registration will support our mission to uplift and defend hourly coffee workers.

Bean Development: Crafting Press Releases

Trying to figure out how TikTok can be good for business?

Whether you're trying to grow your own following or adding TikTok as a social media platform for a business, the clock app can be a tricky place to get started. Demi Chacón, who started Go Fund Bean's TikTok over the summer, has taken it from 0 followers to one of our most useful platforms for telling new audiences about GFB. In this one hour class, she'll teach you:

She'll have an hour of information and then we'll have plenty of time at the end for a Q&A sesh. 

Bean Development: TikTok for Coffee Folks

Author Augustine Sedgewick will be joining us to talk about 

Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

The first thirty minutes will be for discussion of the book, then Augustine will join us at 5 pm PST/8 pm EST to answer questions, chat, and more. 

We are accepting donations for this event. Each donation will be put toward future book club scholarships! 

Author Talk: Augustine Sedgewick

Join us for the inaugural Go Fund Bean Summer Book Club! 

In July, August, and September we'll be reading a book and coming together to chat about it (online!) as a coffee community. We're also going to have an event at the end of every month that has something to do with the book--more details on that soon! 

If you order through our pals at Skylight Books, you'll get 15% off the listed price! (More details on how to take advantage of this soon!) 

We're aware that ordering books can be expensive, so 

we're currently raising money to cover scholarship spots

 for 10 folks. If you can, please take a moment to donate, no donation is too small! 

If you need to apply for the scholarship fund, 

Fine Grinds, Fine Reads: The GFB Book Club

Care Not Cops: Community Response for Coffee Businesses

Handling mental health crisis while working in a customer service role can be extremely challenging. Understanding the risks of involving the police may leave service workers feeling like they have no options. In this class, we’ll talk about alternatives to calling 911, how to care for yourselves and others in crisis, and how to think of creative solutions that are community-minded.

 has extensive training and expertise in mental health, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, substance abuse, and the rippling effects of trauma. For the past ten years, she has worked in a variety of mental health settings conducting clinical work, including multiple state, local, and federal jails and prisons, as well as community health and outpatient settings. Her experience working with law enforcement trying to shape and reform from within, led her to the conclusion that the most effective and lasting change comes from community-based initiatives that challenge the status quo and create new visions of systemic change. She is passionate about increasing access to and destigmatizing mental health, harm reduction approaches, abolition, and connecting with her community. She volunteers with APTP's MH-First, an Oakland based Black-led, multiracial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror and violence in communities of color.

 is the Tasting Room Director for The Crown, a certified Q Grader and Assistant Instructor, and a Q Processing Generalist. She brings with her a depth of experience as a roaster, green buyer, and barista. Her work at The Crown includes menu curation, brew recipe development and analysis, and leading the team of baristas. She teaches classes related to coffee tasting and brewing, latte art, customer service, and regularly leads Spanish-language events. Sandra is co-host of the bilingual podcast 

 and chair of the Good Food Awards Coffee Committee. She is passionate about all things delicious and spends a lot of time eating cheese and sipping IPAs.

This Bean Development class is free for hourly coffee workers and pay-what-you-can for everyone else! 

Bean Development: Care Not Cops

An open-level, self-care focused practice series centering service industry and hospitality workers, current and former. We will explore mindful movement, our breath, and self-reflection, employing the tools of Yoga practice and philosophy as pathways to balance our minds and bodies. We will practice moving from the highly externalized, productivity/labor-centric mindset of hospitality and service work, into a space of internal awareness, self-attunement, and personal agency. Our sessions will highlight restoring our nervous systems, addressing the physical stressors of service-based work, and inquiring inward so we can slow down. 

Options for incorporating supportive props into asanas will be offered, though not required. If you are interested in exploring working with props, here are a few options for what you may want to have handy: blocks (sub: large books, low footstools), blankets (sub: towels), chairs (sub: anything you can comfortable sit on), cushions (sub: pillows from bed, couch cushions), straps (sub: scarves, belts). Other objects to incorporate might include: candles, incense, eye mask, water, tea, or anything that you find supportive. 

Can’t make it live? No problem. The practices will be recorded and shared via email.

About Hope: Hope Sudarshan Glastris (she/her) is a Punjabi-Greek-American artist, designer, and yoga practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York (Lenape Land). Her work as an artist is deeply connected to her yoga practice, and believes that through curiosity, creativity, and self-knowledge, each individual can find agency and the capacity to transform. She shares yoga as a vessel of the wisdom of her ancestors, incorporating the full breadth of yoga practice and philosophy, beyond just the physical aspects. Hope seeks to create space where students can access their agency and be empowered in their own yoga practice.

GFB is pleased to offer these practices on a pay-what-you-can basis to ensure  accessibility to workers, regardless of their financial situation. The suggested contribution is $10 per class for those who are resourced to donate. Your financial support goes directly to worker uplift efforts and is deeply appreciated! Please use the codes below for 50% or 100% off the suggested contribution: 

By signing up, you agree to the following waiver:

I understand that yoga includes physical movements as well as an opportunity for relaxation, stress reduction, and relief of muscular tension. As is the case with any physical activity, the risk of injury, even serious or disabling, is always present and cannot be entirely eliminated. If I experience any pain or discomfort, I will listen to my body, make adjustments to or discontinue the activity, and ask for support from the instructor. I will continue to breathe smoothly. I assume full responsibility for any and all damages, which may incur through participation.

Yoga is not a substitute for medical attention, examination, diagnosis or treatment. Yoga is not recommended and is not safe under certain medical conditions. By signing, I affirm that a licensed physician has verified my good health and physical condition to participate in movement-based practices. In addition, I will make the instructor aware of any medical conditions or physical limitations before class. If I am pregnant, become pregnant or I am post-natal or post-surgical, my signature verifies that I am in a condition to practice yoga safely. I also affirm that I alone am responsible to decide whether to practice yoga. I hereby agree to irrevocably release and waive any claims that I have now or may have hereafter against Hope Glastris and/or any member of Go Fund Bean.

By signing up, I certify that I am physically able to practice yoga and do hereby agree that Hope Glastris or any member of Go Fund Bean is not responsible or liable to me for any expenses, personal injury, loss or damages incurred or caused by me during or in connection with my participation in this practice or event. I do hereby release Hope Glastris and members of Go Fund Bean and its employees and students from any claim or cause of action which may have occurred as a result of any medical problem known or unknown which I have knowledge presently or in the future. I verify no promises or guarantees, other than those written in this agreement, were made to me by Hope Glastris or any members of Go Fund Bean or its employees, contractors, or students. 

I have read and fully understand and agree to the above terms of this Liability Waiver Agreement. I am signing up voluntarily and recognize that my agreement to participate serves as complete and unconditional release of all liability to the greatest extent allowed by law.

Yoga for Service Industry Workers

You will not need anything special. All you will need is a comfortable space to practice, your body and breath, and any objects that feel supportive to you. Some options are: comfy clothing, pillows, yoga blocks (or large books), a mat, a chair (or stool), blankets, water, herbal tea, a meditation cushion, candles.

Sessions are free, but if you want to donate to support this work, 

Join us for our first 2022 Bean Development class! Zac Cadwalader, Managing Editor of Sprudge, will be leading a webinar all about best practices for pitching great articles to publications like Sprudge. 

Learn from someone who is actually reading your pitches! Zac will cover: 

Have specific questions? Drop them in our question box when you register for your class. Zac will try to get to all of them.

Join us on March 7th at 11 am PST/2 pm EST. 

These classes are free for hourly coffee workers! If you're not an hourly coffee workers we ask you make a pay-what-you-can donation to ensure the longevity of these classes. 

Bean Development is a monthly class. Each 

 gives hourly coffee workers access to coffee industry leaders. These classes are generously sponsored by 

Bean Development: Zac Cadwalader on Pitching

Let It Spro: Secret Santa Reveal

Let It Spro: Virtual Meetup

Show off your building and design skills! 

Come by yourself or as a team to build the best gingerbread house using a kit provided by Go Fund Bean*! The winner will receive a box of 

 coffee courtesy of Go Fund Bean and Cometeer!  

*Your gingerbread house kit is completely free. However, we do ask that you help us offset the cost of shipping it. When you register, you’ll see a pay-what-you-can option. 

Let It Spro: Gingerbread House Building Competition 

Test your knowledge with our coffee-related Let It Spro Trivia Night!

Compete in teams or by yourself, just bring your competitive spirit! Host Maciej will be brewing up rounds of interesting coffee trivia to test your knowledge of subjects obvious and obscure. 

 coffee courtesy of Go Fund Bean and Cometeer!