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.

 

 

RECENT MPI FOUNDATIONS STORIES

Laura Johnson

Laura Johnson

By MPI Foundation

Laura Johnson, Hilton Membership Scholarship Recipient 2022-2023

How did your journey begin in this industry, and how has your involvement changed over time?
After college, I got a marketing job for a firm that did 2 seminars a year. with another company They decided to break away from the other company, and I volunteered to manage them. I never looked back. I read everything I could, went to tradeshows, and fell in love with the industry and doing educational conferences. After 6 years, I joined a new company and went from 2 events a year to 100 a year as Director of Training with a full staff for my previous employer. It gave me a whole new way of learning to organize multiple events. Now I'm on my own after starting my own meeting planning company in 2009.

What are your professional goals?
I'd like to grow my firm by expanding my skills, networking with others, giving back to the meeting planning community, publish articles on my lessons learned, and be a sounding board for those who need it.

How do you see this scholarship having an impact on your life?
I am excited to receive this scholarship so I can explore the possibilities that MPI can provide for my business and career but also to see what I can offer back to others with my years of experience as a planner.

Do you have a message for Hilton, a corporate donor for these funds?
Thank you so much to Hilton Hotels for providing a small woman-owned company with the opportunity to have new doors opened and expand my world of planning and hospitality. I commit to pushing it forward!


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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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