Elijah Craig Bourbon announced a $100,000 donation to the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation via proceeds from its inaugural Old Fashioned Week. 

More than 22,000 registrants, and thousands on social media, participated in the promotion, according to a news release. 

The Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation is an advocacy and action nonprofit created by and for restaurant workers. Donations from Old Fashioned Week will go toward direct financial assistance, grants to non-profit partners, and to a zero-interest loan program for small businesses.

During the promotion, Elijah Craig hosted a lineup of live events designed to be both educational and entertaining in support of RWCF. Highlights of the week included an “Old Fashioned Cocktail Hour” with celebrity chef Richard Blais and friends, “Old Fashioned Bar Trivia” with Heaven Hill Distillery ambassadors Bernie Lubbers and Jack Choate, “The Art of Crafting Ice” with Portland-based bartender and author Jeffrey Morgenthaler, and “Elevating Your Home Bar” with Devin Kennedy, bartender at Pouring Ribbons. To relive the action, visit OldFashionedWeek.com.

 “We are grateful for Elijah Craig’s support, especially at a time when it’s become increasingly clear that restaurant workers continue to suffer and the industry as a whole will not be coming back to health anytime soon,” John deBary, co-founder and board president of Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation, said in the release. “RWCF will continue to fundraise so that we can direct much needed financial assistance to restaurant workers, bolster nonprofit organizations that serve restaurant workers in crisis, and provide zero-interest loans for restaurants while helping them consider ways they can recreate workplaces that better support their workers.”