Resources

Promoting Diversity

  • Assemblage Symposium - Assemblage Symposium delivers an annual in person, multi-day event featuring keynote speeches, in-depth discussions, and breakout sessions focused on challenges particularly faced by women and intersectionally diverse communities.

  • Be the Change - Be the Change is a virtual job fair focused on connecting job-seekers with employers looking to recruit and hire diverse talent.

  • Black Wine Professionals - created by our Bâtonnage scholarship program founder, Julia Coney, this platform is for wine industry employers and gatekeepers, professionals, and the food and beverage community, to connect them with the multifaceted Black professionals in the world of wine that have long been overlooked.

  • Diversity in Wine and Spirits - Diversity in Wine and Spirits works to transform the international hospitality community and industries by fostering and implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives at every level.

  • Diversity in Wine Leadership Forum - The Diversity in Wine Leadership Forum is a central resource for the wine community to connect and work with organizations with a core commitment to diversity and equity.

  • Hispanics in Wine - a digital space for insights into essential industry opportunities, consumer trends, and resources in English and Spanish for the Hispanic and Latinx wine communities.

  • Industry Sessions - Industry Sessions offers wine and education through a virtual platform for BIPOC wine industry professionals in more than thirteen cities in the U.S. and Canada.

  • The Hue Society - The Hue Society is a wine and lifestyle community that seeks to transform the narrative of BIPOC wine experience.

  • The Roots Fund - The Roots Fund seeks to empower communities traditionally underrepresented in the wine community by offering scholarships, wine education, mentorship, and job placement across all aspects of the industry and trade to Black, Indigenous, and Latinx individuals. Industry businesses can partner with The Roots Fund to offer scholarships, funding, or job support. Individuals can also apply to serve as mentors.

  • The Veraison Project - The Veraison Project works to create greater equity within the wine industry through four key initiatives: Sponsorship, Masterclass Education, Mentorship and Networking, and Apprenticeship.

  • Vinequity - Vinequity seeks to create equitable access across all aspects of the wine industry for BIPOC, including BIPOC who identify as LGBTQ+ and BIPOC living with a disability.

  • Vinica Education Society - Vinica Education Society supports adults that are passionate about wine, but experiencing systemic barriers to participation and advancement in the industry. Vinica offers a comprehensive AgriDiversity wine training program, designed to catalyze participation of BIPOC wine professionals at the management and leadership levels.

  • Wine Empowered - Wine Empowered offers tuition-free wine education to women and BIPOC in the hospitality industry.

  • Wine on Wheels - Wine on Wheels brings together top sommeliers from the New York City wine community with the non-profit organization Wheeling Forward to raise money to support programs for young people with disabilities.

  • Wine Unify - Wine Unify seeks to increase and empower the presence of underrepresented communities in the wine industry through three key initiatives – welcome, elevate, and amplify.

Supporting Vineyard Workers

Professional Development

  • Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation - provides free training, English-language classes, citizenship assistance, and education for farmworkers and their families

  • AgSafe - resource providing worker safety, health, human resources, and food safety solutions for the food and farming industries GED Completion Programs

Language Resources

  • Puertas Abiertas - offers life skills, educational programs, English and Spanish literacy classes, and advocacy services to support personal growth and family stability

  • Local community colleges

  • Mexican Consulate

Healthcare

  • ¡Salud! - provides access to healthcare services for Oregon’s seasonal vineyard workers and their families

  • Ole Health - provides healthcare for vineyard workers and their families in Northern California

Legal

  • Lutheran Family Services Northwest - epuips refugees and immigrants with the skills, resources and support they need to live fulfilling lives

  • Immigration Institute of the Bay Area - provides high-quality, affordable immigration legal services, education, and civic engagement opportunities

  • Corazón - provides legal services, financial literacy workshops, bilingual housing workshops, and citizenship classes in Northern Sonoma County

Housing

Food Security

  • Regional Food Banks

Sexual Harassment - Documentation

What is sexual harassment? What types of harassment are there? Learn more about it in this documentation. Read more.

Employer Resources

  • Labor Law Digest, the California edition - to find your state's edition, search or ask at your local Chamber of Commerce

    Chamber of Commerce - provides employee training and advice for owners - search for your local chapter

  • Trade Associations - local and regional trade associations for the hospitality, restaurant, retail industries, and for small business owners, provide employer resources including employee training

    Insurance Brokers - ask yours about training resources required for employees

In California’s North Coast:

  • Dickenson, Peatman, & Fogarty - provides legal counsel for business owners

  • Aura Adams - a lawyer who provides counsel for employers, and also provides private, weekly training legally required for employees

 

Employee Resources

  • GlassDoor - a job search resource that also allows employees to give anonymous reviews of current and former employers so that people looking for work can find out about any potential employers complaints

  • Labor Commission Office - can file wage and hourly complaints without a lawyer - search for your local office - in California

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - deals with discrimination complaints

  • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health (DEOH or DEH or DOH) - deals with safety complaints - search for your local office 

Community Resources

 

Financial Resources for Women of Color Business Owners

COVID-19 Resources

  • Badass Bartender - Women of the Vine & Spirits created Badass Bartender, a Facebook Group, to unite and empower women bartenders. Creating an outlet for these women impacted by the pandemic to come together, support one another, share recipes and encouragement.

  • WOTVS Foundation Assistance Program – Women of the Vine & Spirits launched a new program to provide qualified applicants a confidential assistance program offering health, financial and legal aid to restaurant and hospitality workers. Apply here for this assistance program.

  • Southern Smoke - Established in 2017, Southern Smoke’s emergency relief fund helps individuals in the food and beverage industry who are in crisis.

    BeWellLine — BeWellLine and California State have come together to provide support and counseling through virtual mental health support.