March 30, 2018 By Andy Giegerich
The passports are available for purchase until April 30 and are good between April 1 and May 31.
When Brian Grant walks down the street in Portland these days, he's hearing new exclamations from fans.
"They're saying, 'Hey, isn't your Pints coming up?'" said the Blazer fan favorite.
"And I say, 'You know about Pints?'"
"Pints," in this case, is shorthand for Pints for Parkinson's, the Brian Grant Foundation fundraiser that's generating money for the condition that affects Grant and at least 60,000 other known Americans. Grant's foundation has offered the very-Portland program for the past three years.
It's an innovative fundraiser that achieves at least four aims. It raises awareness of both the Grant Foundation and the condition. It allows participating breweries to find new customers. It provides a terrific discount to those who purchase Pints for Parkinson's passports. And, it allows for a new set of benefactors to donate money.
"It gives someone who might not be able to buy a seat at the gala a chance to support us," Grant said before a Pints kickoff party Wednesday.
The passport allows users to, for $25, get 10 pints at 24 spots in Portland and seven spots in Bend. The discount ends up coming to less than half the going price (before tips) for a pint at many of the participating breweries.
A visual tour of Brian Grant's Pints for Parkinson's 2017 fundraiser (Photos)
The Pints for Parkinson's booklets sell for $25 and allow users to get 10 pints at 35 locations across Oregon. The event runs between the beginning of April and May 31. Click through for a look at the spots I hit during what ended up being a four-week P4P jaunt.
In Portland, participating breweries include Breakside, Ecliptic, 10 Barrel and the new Von Ebert.
"Portland has caught on to this, and we're expected a successful year," Grant said. Indeed, scores of the passports were sold at the Wednesday event, which itself raised thousands for the foundation's activities and Parkinson's research.
Grant himself is doing well some 10 years after his diagnosis.
"I actually spoke to my neurologist today and he's impressed: I lowered my meds," said Grant.
He was able to do so with the help of naturopathic treatments.
"I love my neurologist, but naturopathic medicine is working very well," Grant said. "As I came down on my medication, I thought I’d see a big difference, but there was hardly any. Naturopathy has helped me, in coordination with what I do with my neurologist."
Brian Grant weighed on his health, his foundation's successful fundraising programs and the Blazers before Wednesday's Pints for Parkinson's kickoff party.
As Grant spoke, the Blazers were battling the Memphis Grizzlies. The locals eventually lost, but Grant remains confident about the upstart team's prospects.
"I just want them to finish strong," said Grant who played for the team from 1997 to 2000. "Every one of those cats has stepped up. We were thinking at the beginning of the season that we'd write it off because of the bad start, but now, they’re looking to get the third seed" in the West.
The Pints for Parkinson's Passports are available for purchase through April 30 and are usable between April 1 and May 31.
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