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
TELL YOUR STORY
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 Denmark Chapter Elevate Education
An MPI Foundation grant helped the MPI Denmark Chapter host a one-day training course using the Event Design Canvas methodology.
“The course went really well—it was beneficial to the attendees, interactive and highly educational,” says Anne Dalgaard, chapter president. “The course was a great success and received a satisfaction score of 4.8 on a five-point scale.”
She says the training course is information-packed, and that breaking it up into two days could be even more beneficial.
Dalgaard says the grant made it possible for the chapter to offer members a certificate course on top of the “ordinary” seminars—a more substantial educational offering than was previously available.
“An educational offer like this makes it possible for us to show our members that there is more to MPI than our local seminars—that we are part of something bigger!” she says.
In 2018, the MPI Foundation awarded 256 total scholarships totaling US$292,238.
