Charity Donations

We seek to help all nonprofit charities, and are happy to donate & support their charitable endevours. We offer two types of donations to charities: gift certificates & wine events.

Gift Certificates

Perfect for charity auctions. These are a high-value item (valued at $75) that are often highly bidded upon in auctions. We need three items prior to issuing a gift certificate to your charity:

  1. A photocopy of your 501(c)3 status
  2. A request letter (not email)
  3. Charities are also required to send a letter of receipt. This is key, as the gift certificates will not be valid until we recieve that letter.

Send the request to:
The Wine School
Charity Donation
2006 Fairmount Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130

Wine Events

Our charity wine tastings are extraordinarilly popular and a wonderful way to throw a gala event. We run these events at cost. For information regarding our charity wine events, please contact us at (800) 817-7351 x66 for more information.

Uncharitable Charities

We are happy to be apart of the Philadelphia community, and are eager to give back. Our charity partners have been an utter pleasure to work with and look forward to working with them --and you-- for many years.

However, there are number of charities --a very small number, mind you-- that hire the most profoundly ignorant humans on the face of the good earth. They seem to relish making our lives a living hell, but we hope its just a lack of common sense and not a general hatred of humanity. In the spirit of mutual benefit, please try and refrain from the following:

  • Please do not repeatedly email, call, or fax us demanding a donation. All you need to do is mail us a request.
  • Don't complain bitterly that we making it too hard for you. If sending a donation request by post is too hard for you, then your life has been far too easy up to this point.
  • For the love of pete, don't cajol us for larger and larger donations on a weekly basis.
  • Don't call us and leave a message about how we are horrible people for only donating a gift certificate.
  • Don't call our president's personal cell phone and act insulted when he doesn't really want to spend twenty minutes talking about the endangered speckled lemur. He has a life, and it doesn't revolve around you.
  • Its silly to demand that we supply free wine for your "charitable" dinner parties. Its a dumb hoax, and we see right through it.
  • If you keep our donation rather than giving the proceeds to charity, don't be surpised when we find out.
  • We do not donate wine, so don't keep us on the phone for twenty minutes trying to convince us to give you a free cases of wine.

Yeah, everyone of those points has been tried at least once in the last few years. We love to help out our fellow Philadelphians, so we will keep on donating to charity, even when they make it almost impossible to feel good about it.