{"id":73906,"date":"2021-10-01T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=73906"},"modified":"2021-10-01T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:25:47","slug":"urban-grape-award-founders-get-bold-in-globe-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/urban-grape-award-founders-get-bold-in-globe-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Grape Award Founders Get Bold in Globe Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TJ and Hadley Douglas, owners of Boston\u2019s South End wine retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/theurbangrape.shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Grape<\/a> and founders of the BU Food &#038; Wine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/category\/urban-grape-wine-studies-award\/\">Urban Grape Wine Studies Award for Students of Color<\/a>, were the subject of the latest entry in the <i>Boston Globe<\/i>\u2019s Bold Type series, which spotlights Boston-area entrepreneurs dedicated to making an impact on the city\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Douglases founded the Urban Grape Wine Studies Award, dedicated to fostering greater equity and inclusion in the world of wine by providing students of color with the mentorship, education, and work experience needed to thrive in the field. Award-winners are granted scholarships to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodandwine\/wine-programs\/#levels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four-level Certificate Program in Wine Studies<\/a> offered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodandwine\/wine-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center<\/a> at BU MET\u2014owner TJ is a program alum\u2014as well as work-study opportunities at Urban Grape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve always had the dual meaning of <i>Drink Progressively<\/i>,\u201d Hadley told the <i>Globe<\/i>, describing the business\u2019s slogan and ethos. \u201cDrink on the progressive scale but also vote with your dollars and sip in a more conscious way,\u201d she explained. <\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2021\/09\/16\/business\/bold-types-urban-grape-drinking-progressively-takes-deeper-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Boston Globe<\/i><\/a> to watch the Bold Type video interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TJ and Hadley Douglas, owners of Boston\u2019s South End wine retailer Urban Grape and founders of the BU Food &#038; Wine Urban Grape Wine Studies Award for Students of Color, were the subject of the latest entry in the Boston Globe\u2019s Bold Type series, which spotlights Boston-area entrepreneurs dedicated to making an impact on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16254,"featured_media":72338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[196,86,37,190,201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73907,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73906\/revisions\/73907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}