The Pink Boots Society is an international professional association and USA 501(c)3 nonprofit. We inspire, encourage and empower women beer professionals to advance their careers through education. Our 1,000+ members are the female beer industry leaders of tomorrow, and they inspire women consumers to choose beer as their adult beverage of choice.

 

Angela Arp is virtually a very busy woman, so she used her virtual experience to promote Pink Boots Society through social media from 2011 to 2013. She's also co-founder of the Nebraska Chapter of Barley's Angels*. 

 

Angela's social media work for PBS was a natural, as she led Social Media & Events for Nebraska Brewing Co. till 2013, when she became the brewery's Head Mistress of Cat Herding and Craft Projects. She was board member for Omaha Beer Week from 2013 through 2015 and chaired the marketing committee. Not surprisingly, you can catch up with Angela on virtually any social media site, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, all @AngelaArp.

 

* Barley's Angels was formerly the Consumer side of Pink Boots Society. It is not independent as we had to focus on our core professional membership to receive our IRS 501(c)3 tax-exempt designation. 

It breaks Nicole Courides' heart to put Pennsylvania's Intercourse Brewing Co. on the market in hopes of finding someone who can devote more time to it. But the NYC pharmaceutical ad copywriter remains proud of the work she's done to bring more women into craft beer - both through her contract brewery and her work as coordinator of the annual PBS Mother's Day initiative, Bring Mom Out for a Beer (BMOFAB).

 

Courides helped launched BMOFAB as a way to celebrate beer and mothers (who were the first brewers) while enticing moms and grown kids to share a Mother's Day beer together. She signed up bars and restaurants from around the country to program special beer events and put beers on special. Then she promoted BMOFAB through the media - both social and traditional. The response, she says, was wild.

 

"We had tiny, independent pubs offering a special BMOFAB menu and then we had huge industry players partake too. That was awesome," she says.

 

BMOFAB went on hiatus this year while PBS members focused in International Women's Collaboration Brew Day but we're sure it'll be back!

 

If you want to host your own Bring Mom Out For A Beer event in 2015, host your event on Mother's Day from 1-4 pm, and be sure to register your event on www.craftbeer.com.  

Each PBS Scholarship has three separate dates, and our ace Scholarship Administrator, Kris McDowell is the organizational powerhouse behind keeping it all straight. The schedules run like this:

Month A: Scholarship Application Window runs about the 5th to last day. Generally the deadline is the last day of the month at 11:59pm PST/PDT. Please don't wait till the last minute! (See next section for more on this.)

Month B: Scholarship Selection Committee (Team A or Team B, depending on the month) reviews and discusses all applications and resumes, and submits the name of their chosen Recipient on the last day of the month.

Month C: PBS leadership secures verbal commitment from Recipient that she will Pay It Forward (PIF), and receives their Scholarship Deposit. Non-recipients are notified via email.

Month C, 15th Day: Announcement of the Recipient is normally made via this E-Newsletter.

We now have one scholarship opportunity occurring each month, and two Scholarship Selection Teams operating. You can just imagine the volume of work happening behind the scenes. So please be patient with us! Thank you, and thank you for your help in fundraising for these scholarships.
 

June 5-30, 2014: Hop Union's Hop & Brew School application window.
July 5-31, 2014: Mikro Bar Cicerone Beer Savvy application window.
August 5-31, 2014: Portland State University Business of Craft Brewing application window.
September 5-30, 2014: TBD
October 5-31, 2014: TBD
November 5-30, 2014: TBD
December 5-31, 2014: Oregon State University's Craft Brewery Start-up Workshop II application window.

Please note that Recipients are not announced until 75 days after an application window opens! See above for How Scholarships Work.