Whether you’re an industry veteran or just getting started in your career, the MPI Foundation is committed to giving back to you and your industry, making you both stronger. A donation to the MPI Foundation helps secure the meeting and event profession for the future. When you help the people who bring people together, you help change the world.
How We've Helped
2234
PEOPLE DIRECTLY BENEFITED
IN 2020
$5 MILLION +
IN FUNDS AWARDED
SINCE 2009
60+
CHAPTERS BENEFITED FROM MPIF
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
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The MPI Foundation offers grants for education, training, research and other special interest needs that enrich our industry as well as scholarships to complement MPI membership, education and career opportunities. With these grants and scholarships, together, we move this community and our global industry towards critical recovery.
The MPI Foundation partners with organizations throughout the year to hold Rendezvous events and proceeds benefit the MPI Foundation.
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Care to help? That’s easy! In your chapters, destinations, or companies, PARTICIPATE in MPIF events, auctions, or legacy of giving programs. If you’ve ever benefited from an MPI Foundation award, now is your chance to give back.
“I’m a huge proponent of giving back. When you have the ability to help, I think you should help.”
RANDY ALLEN DAVIS
MPI Foundation Scholarship Recipient
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The generosity displayed throughout 2020 is making an important impact in 2021. Those funds are benefitting hundreds of MPI members, chapters, and industry initiatives during one of the most tragic and humbling viral occurrences of our lifetime. We’re giving HOPE.
RECENT MPI FOUNDATIONS STORIES
Grant Helps Atlantic Canada Chapter Attract Top Speaker
The MPI Atlantic Canada Chapter received an MPI Foundation grant that helped them pay for an event speaker/moderator.
“We held a speed networking event for Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) where people got five minutes to meet with others in the industry, then they switched off,” says Claudia Habib, immediate past president of the chapter. “We wrapped it up with a lunch where our speaker summed up the best ways to network and make lasting connections.”
She says the grant covered half of the speaker’s fee, and without it the chapter would not have been able to have such a professional speaker.“She sat in on committee meetings and helped us promote the event with her
videos and social media channels,” Habib says.
She says the MPI Foundation helps small chapters with the bottom line, and helped the Atlantic Canada Chapter produce a well-attended and well-received event.
In 2018, the MPI Foundation awarded 256 total scholarships totaling US$292,238.
