USBG Offering Relief Grants To Beverage Industry Workers

NORTH AUSTIN, TX — In light of the coronavirus, or COVID-19 global pandemic, the United States Bartenders' Guild (USBG) and its USBG National Charity Foundation have created a Bartender Emergency Assistance Program issuing emergency grants to bartenders and their families whose employment has been affected by COVID-19.

Applicants need not be USBG members to apply for assistance. In order to qualify for grant assistance from the Bartender Emergency Assistance Program, the recipient must satisfy all of the following requirements:

1. Be a Bartender or the spouse or child of a Bartender. The Bartender Emergency Assistance Program defines a “Bartender” as an individual employed in serving beverages or otherwise engaged in the production, promotion or distribution of alcoholic beverages. An individual is considered “employed” as a Bartender if, for not less than one year prior to the application, the individual performed services as a Bartender on a regular full- or part-time basis or, if the catastrophic event or emergency hardship giving rise to the application prevents the individual from performing such services, for not less than one year prior to the event or hardship the individual performed services as a Bartender on a regular full- or part-time basis.

2. Experience a catastrophic event or emergency hardship that is:

• Identifiable and described in detail in the application;
• Damaging to the person or property (e.g., loss of life, health, or property);
• Sudden and precipitous rather than gradual or progressive;
• Unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unintended, or unplanned; and
• Unusual and not normally occurring in the ordinary course of day-to-day living.

3. Lack the necessities of life, including financial, physical, mental, or emotional well being as a result of the catastrophic event or emergency hardship.

4. Provide tangible documentation of the catastrophic event or emergency hardship.

For this campaign, USBG expects grants to range between $150 to $500. These grants are intended to help provide a modest cushion for groceries, utilities, and other day-to-day expenses. Through its donation drive, USBG seeks community assistance to continue raising funds to assist more families. To learn more about USBG, the Bartender Emergency Assistance Program, or to donate to the fund click HERE.