The MPI Foundation is a non-profit organization that will celebrate 40 years in 2024 as the leading meeting and event industry foundation devoted to funding grants, scholarships, and pan-industry research for the people who need it most. 

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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

 

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2234

PEOPLE DIRECTLY BENEFITED
IN 2020

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$5 MILLION +

IN FUNDS AWARDED
SINCE 2009

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60+

CHAPTERS BENEFITED FROM MPIF
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

 

 

 

 

“The MPI Foundation gave me the courage and boost that I needed to take a leap of faith and become a CMP.”

JO TRUETT
MPI Greater Orlando Chapter

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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.

 

 

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Attending the upcoming WEC Conference has always been a strong desire of mine. Thanks to your incredible generosity in awarding me a scholarship, that wish is now a reality!
Grant Helps Denmark Chapter Elevate Education

Grant Helps Denmark Chapter Elevate Education

By MPI Foundation

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.


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The Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Foundation fuels the growth and advancement of MPI members by providing professional development and career opportunities through grants and scholarships. The not-for-profit organization also propels the meeting and event industry forward by funding important and quality research initiatives.

 


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