Celebrate Giving Tuesday With A Crown Heights Bar Crawl

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — This Giving Tuesday, one Crown Heights organizations is inviting Brooklyn to raise a glass to fight food insecurity.

Seeds in the Middle, a group that works to improve food access to underserved schools and communities in Brooklyn, said in an email advertising the event that as a smaller charity, it's hard to get exposure during the annual donation celebration known as Giving Tuesday.

For 2022, they decided to get creative and host a festive night of drinks for the community with a bar crawl fundraiser on Franklin Avenue on Tuesday.

With a $50 donation, do-gooder patrons get drink tickets worth four beverages at participating Crown Heights watering holes.

Starting at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, drinkers can purchase a ticket at Cent'Anni and proceed to drink there or travel to the other supporting Franklin Avenue bars: Crown Inn, Drink Lounge, Island Seas Cafe, Franklin 820, Franklin Park and Mayfield.

Want to keep drinking and keep doing good? No problem — you can buy more drink tickets at Cent'Anni until 10 p.m.

Tickets are also available for sale online here, where teetotalers are also invited to donate.

Seeds in the Middle was founded in 2010 and helps disadvantaged schools find ways to combat food insecurity by improving access to fruits and vegetables through education and programming, like helping to start student-run markets and gardens.

Since its founding, the program has served over 40,000 students in Brooklyn and helped distribute more than 150,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables to food-insecure families across over 20 schools.

To learn more about Seeds in the Middle, including volunteer opportunities, click here.