The Oregon Public House Raises $120,000 and Gains Fame

Portland, OR. The country’s first nonprofit brew house keeps getting more national attention. Just last month, CBS this morning and Forbes featured the Oregon Public House. Since 2013, the brewery has raised over $120,000 for local nonprofits. When customers purchase their food and/or beverage they decide whom the profit will benefit. Staffers and supporters from nonprofits like The Wetlands Conservancy take turns working as servers. Here’s a video explaining the slogan “Have a Pint – Change the World!”

The Oregon Public house has been featured on over a dozen broadcast programs, including The Colbert Report.

And newspaper articles? Well, they were featured in the New York Times.

Oregon Public House President, Ryan Saari says, “Portland, Oregon is the craft brewing capital of America and supports an extensive, thriving pub culture. Portland also hosts more non-profit organizations per capita then any other city in America. Our vision is to leverage these two unique attributes by creating a family-friendly pub environment for our neighbors.” The establishment is located at 700 NE Dekum St. 

The Ex Novo business model includes selling bottled beer at retail establishments. The beer buzz may continue for breweries benefiting nonprofits. Especially as the amount of money they raise continues to increase.

Note: This is a list of the news coverage that the Oregon Public House has enjoyed thus far:

• The New York Times  What???  “In New Pubs, Good Cheer and Good Works,” read here
• Thrillist featured a review of their experience at our soft opening.  read here
• 10best.com rated us the #1 Brewpub in Portland!  read here
• Stanford Social Innovation Review anyone? read here
• Reason.com wrote an EXCELLENT artice about us here
• New School Beer Blog did an excellent article about us, here
• The Oregonian did a wonderful article that was almost 2 years in the makinghere
• Bitteredunits did a nice little blog about a visit available here
• Priceonomics wrote an indepth piece about our model here
• BeerAdvocate Magazine did a short article about us. read here
• Draft Magazine did a great article available here
• BeerGuyPDX did a nice little restaurant review about us here
• Market Watch Magazine did a nice piece about us here
• Zipcar highlighted some amazing restaurants giving back here
• Friends of Trees, one of our partnered charities, wrote a great article here
• FSR Magazine featured us in a nice piece here
• Talk.Eat.Drink.Portland wrote a great review here
• Affect Magazine raised a glass to us here
• Ya, Men’s Health. That means we’re healthy here
• Portland Mercury did a wonderfully snarky article about us here
• Willamette Week did a short little bar review available here
• The Golden Revolver did a nice story about us available here
• The Oregon Legal Journal, scary name I know, wrote a little piece about us here
• Neighborhood Notes did a wonderful article on us. read here
• Business Week somehow thought we were a business. read here
• UPI wrote a short piece about us here
• Idealist.org did a great Q&A with us. read here
• Good News Shared (love that name) shared some good news here
• Food Fanatics Magazine showing us some love here
• The Drink Nation did a short article about us. read here
• The Takeaway on NPR did a short interview with us. read here
• First ever national press! Utne Reader Magazine did a short piece on us. read here
• BePortland, an awesome local organization, featured a little interview with us. read here

Broadcast appearances:

• KPTV News did an OPENING story about us. watch here
• Still Motion made a tear jerker… watch here
• Bus52 made an amazing video. watch here
• KOIN did another story about our opening available here
• KGW did a nice video about our opening available here
• KPTV News did a short story about us. watch here
• KOIN News did a story about us as well. watch here
• The Colbert Report! Stephen Colbert wags his finger at us. A good thing. here
• New School Beer Blog made a wonderful video about us. watch here
• The Oregonian did a nice little video about us here
• The Takeaway on NPR did a short interview with us. listen here
• Awesome radio interview on Beer O’Clock (great name).  listen here