If you can change the way you see the world, the world you see can change.
The Crafted For All Commitment
The Crafted For All commitment is a pledge to drive inclusive, equitable, and just behaviors in your organization. These behaviors cultivate diversity and, in doing so, breed success.
Twenty two action items, across seven areas of organizational practice, form a holistic baseline from which organizations of all sizes can build and grow. Sustainable change takes purposeful thought, careful planning, and time and space for trial and error. When you make the commitment, you are not committing to implement the entire framework immediately. Rather, you are 1) articulating a genuine intention to make meaningful progress on each action item, 2) demonstrating your commitment to take action to help the craft brewing industry thrive for years to come, and 3) ensuring that your team and your community know that your organization and its products and services are Crafted For All.
Brewers, professional associations and guilds, distributors, and members of allied trade are invited to make a meaningful commitment to create a better industry by building more inclusive, equitable, and just organizations.
Impact Brew Works
Impact Brew Works is a passion project of Dr. J Jackson-Beckham — a craft beverage industry leader, Certified Cicerone, homebrewer, and relentless tinkerer — fermentation makes her happy.
Dr. J believes in the transformative potential of bringing people together in the spirit of creativity and generosity. She believes creative and generous people are capable of changing the world. She wants to change the world with you. The recipe is simple. Impact Brew Works collaborates with craft beverage producers, community and nonprofit benefactors, and other change makers to raise funds, promote awareness, and activate fermented beverage lovers in service of positive social change.
Craft x EDU
Craft x EDU champions inclusion, equity, and justice in the craft brewing community by helping change makers multiply their impact.
Founded and led by Dr. J Jackson-Beckham, Craft x EDU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides advisory services, networking opportunities, and fiscal sponsorship to grassroots movements, emerging organizations, and high impact change makers that want to shape what it means to belong in the craft brewing community while making positive social change.
Michael Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling
Michael Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling funds technical education and career advancement for black, indigenous, and people of color in the brewing and distilling industries.
The program is open to candidates at the beginning of their careers, as well as those looking to continue their education. The MJF awards present an opportunity for members and patrons of the brewing and distilling industries to directly fund a more just, equitable, and dynamic future. Dr. J Jackson-Beckham is a proud member of the founding board of directors.
National Black Brewers Association
Less than 1% of craft breweries in the U.S. are owned by African Americans and there is no single entity to help African American brewers and brewery owners with their specific needs and issues.
Given these challenges, the National Black Brewers Association (“NB2A”) was formed as a 501c6 membership-based non-profit organization to:
- Promote the Black brewing community as a first-of-its kind organization;
- Increase the number of African Americans in the brewing industry at all levels of production, especially ownership and brewmaster;
- Exercise political influence by developing and advocating for effective policy; and
- Foster understanding about the history and legacy of African American brewing in the United States.
Dr. J Jackson-Beckham is a proud member of the founding board of directors.
UC Davis Tapping Potential Scholarship
The UC Davis Tapping Potential Fund provides full-ride scholarships to the prestigious online UC Davis Master Brewers Certificate Program.
The Tapping Potential Scholarship supports students who are committed to diversity, have experience and/or understanding of the barriers traditionally faced by people from underrepresented populations and demonstrate a high potential for leadership in promoting understanding of diverse groups in the brewing industry.