Odell Brewing Company

800 East Lincoln Avenue | Fort Collins, CO | www.odellbrewing.com

Member since January 2012

By the numbers:

• Total number of employees: 118
• Total number of volunteers: 92
• Total number of volunteer hours: 460

What is your company's mission?

As a regional, craft brewery, we are a leader in beer quality and innovation, imagery, and profitability, and we provide exceptional service to our customers and positive contributions to our co-workers and community.

What is your company's community mission?

To contribute to the well-being and prosperity of the people, communities and environment within our distribution area.

Tell us about your company's Employee Volunteer Program.

• We have crafted an in-house volunteer program that facilitates the blending of departments to function as a teambuilding exercise as well. These Team Builds are offered quarterly when our entire team, including our representatives from our broader serving area, return to Fort Collins.
• We have painted the inside of The Mission, built trails with Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, done fire mitigation with Poudre Wilderness Volunteers and worked on a build with Habitat for Humanity to name a few. 2016 will be our 6^th year of this program and we look forward with our growing staff to make an even greater impact!
• We also engage our friends and fans to join us in our volunteer efforts through “Odell Outreach.” We have a unique opportunity to share our love of our community with the folks that love us, do some good together and celebrate with a beer afterward.

Why does your company volunteer?

We know that our dollars make a difference, but nothing invests our co-workers or celebrates that spirit like putting sweat equity back into where we live!

What was your biggest volunteer accomplishment in 2016?

• A group of about 30 of our co-workers worked with Wildlands Restoration Volunteers and Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed to assist with fire/flood mitigation at Stove Prairie in the Poudre Canyon.
• Our strong team built rock wall barriers, picked up a ton of trash and collected sapling canes for replanting along the bank of the river. It was the perfect marriage of our love of the river for recreation, hydration and of course, the main ingredient in our beer!

Do you have a story you would like to share?

We had a couple of great opportunities with Business Cares and beyond last year. Odell Outreach joined forces with Headwaters Realty and we worked to help get the House of Neighborly Services open for patrons in March. Between the two of us we were able to rally 30+ volunteers and celebrated our success together with lunch at the brewery.

Where did you help in 2016?

• We have an amazing committee of 10 co-owners from different departments that help to make some of our important giving decisions including choosing the 12 agencies that are represented in our tap room as Charity of the Month (they receive month-long exposure, the use of our tap room for an after-hours event, the potential to partner on a volunteer project and $3,000 at the end of the month) accompanied by a tip jar recipient.
• We also host charitable non-profits in our tap room for fundraisers and volunteer/staff appreciation.
• We have wonderful long-term relationships with local organizations like the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery (in 2015 we extended our commitment as “Founding Circle Members”), the Fermentation Science Program at CSU, and have re-engaged with our local Habitat for Humanity to collaborate with a group of other local brewers for the House That Beer Built II.

Anything else you would like to add?

Watch for some fun occasions to help us in our mission to give back with our Small Batch festival in May, Ride the Rockies in June and a number of Odell Outreach volunteer opportunities peppered throughout the year (including the opportunity to build on the House That Beer Built!).