Chapter and Meet-Up Policies
Guidelines to help members and organizers succeed on Books, Brunches & Booze Platforms and within their chapters
At Books, Brunches & Booze, we believe that real-life community is really, really important. When people come together, they create new possibilities for each other. Ideas spread, networks form, movements start. At its simplest, life is just better when you have people to enjoy it with.
Books, Brunches & Booze exists to help bring people together. Books, Brunches & Booze is a community that builds friendships and provides opportunities that will help them thrive.
To make this possible, Books, Brunches & Booze requires chapters to meet some basic requirements.
✔ Growth opportunities
Books, Brunches & Booze Meet-Ups/events should offer opportunities for members to better themselves in some way. This could mean:
Meeting new people
Building community
Volunteering for a cause
Supporting each other
Encouraging a passion
Exploring new places
✔ Host events that create real human connections
Books, Brunches & Booze is a community that helps people make real-life connections—it is not a community or platform for only advertising sales or special promotions. Meet-Ups/events must focus on creating an experience that adds value for attendees. This can mean learning something, playing a game together, making new friends, or enjoying each other’s company. People should leave Books, Brunches & Booze Meet-Ups/events feeling inspired or more connected to their community in some way.
Here are a few examples of what’s acceptable to post as a Books, Brunches & Booze event:
Discussions that offer new perspectives
Adventures that get people out of their comfort zones
Meet-Ups that allow people to get to know each other
Tours that help people discover new places and ideas
Workshops that help people sharpen their skills
Group speakers that spread new ideas
Games that connect people through fun, shared experiences
✔ Meet in real life
Connecting online is just not the same as connecting in real life. Books, Brunches & Booze chapters need to meet locally and in-person so that real-life communities can grow. Books, Brunches & Booze should not be used only for hosting online meetings, conference calls, or webinars.
✔ Be honest and transparent about your chapter’s intentions
Books, Brunches & Booze hosts must always be honest and transparent with their members so that everyone knows what to expect at the chapter’s events. Chapter and Meet-Up/event names and descriptions must accurately convey sufficient information that allows members to make informed decisions about their participation. This includes, at a minimum, being clear about:
The nature of the chapter’s activities, interests, and intentions
The chapter’s membership requirements
Fees if necessary for specific event/activities
If Books, Brunches & Booze receives reports that a chapter is not accurately disclosing any of this information, we may remove the chapter at our sole discretion.
Prohibited chapter and Meet-Up/event practices within Books, Brunches & Booze
Helping people find their crew is what Books, Brunches & Booze is all about—however, there are a few types of communities that we cannot support on our platform due to safety, legal, or ethical reasons. If Books, Brunches & Booze determines that your chapter or its events fall into any of the following categories, we may remove the chapter at our sole discretion.
Books, Brunches & Booze does not support chapters and Meet-Ups/events related to any of the following themes.
✘ Violent, dangerous, or criminal behavior
Chapters must not contain content or promote events that could promote or facilitate illegal or violent activity, such as:
Buying, selling, or trading firearms, ammunition, or drugs
Pyramid schemes
Acts of physical harm against other people
Animal abuse
Acts of vandalism
Chapters must not contain content or promote events that could threaten public or personal safety, including:
Advocating for, inciting, or making aspirational statements or threats to commit violence against any group of people, individual person, or specific location
Weapons and explosive-making
Militia gatherings or any calls for violence in response to private or public events
Exposure of an individual’s personal information
Promotion or glorification of self-harm (for example, suicide, eating disorders or substance abuse)
Chapters must not contain content or promote events that incite hate, violence, or harassment against individuals or groups of people based on personal attributes such as race, color, religion, descent, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, or a medical or genetic condition.
Chapters must not advance conspiracy theories that promote hatred or violence against individuals or groups based on any of the above personal attributes. Conspiracy theories that diminish or deny the documented suffering of a group of people are not permitted.
Chapters must not contain content or promote events that organize, promote, provide for, distribute services for, or recruit for terrorist organizations.
✘ Targeted to individuals under 21
Books, Brunches & Booze members and hosts must be at least 21 years old. Books, Brunches & Booze chapters and Meet-Ups/events must be only targeted to people over the age of 21.
✘ Misrepresentation or concealed intentions
Chapters must not contain content or promote events that conceal or misrepresent the primary purpose of the chapter or its Meet-Ups/events, including:
A chapter created with the purpose of deliberately spreading false or deceptive information
A chapter created with the sole purpose of making a statement or sparking controversy
✘ Pick-up artists or seduction techniques
Chapters must not contain content or promote events that involve pick-up or seduction techniques, or wingman tactics.
✘ Sexual exploitation
Chapters must not contain content or promote events that promote or facilitate sex trafficking, prostitution, or any other type of sexual exploitation.