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. 

Do you have a story about how the MPI Foundation has impacted you? It’s easy to record a video with Gather Voices, we'll show you how...just click the button below.

 

 

We look forward to sharing it with the MPI community and our industry. Thank you!

 

 

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

 

home-fundation-hands

2234

PEOPLE DIRECTLY BENEFITED
IN 2020

home-foundation-hearthands

$5 MILLION +

IN FUNDS AWARDED
SINCE 2009

home-fundation-hearthand

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

GET HELP

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.

GET INVOLVED

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

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!
Our overall experience with this program was very positive.
MPI Foundation/HB Cares Autism Work Experience Project

MPI Foundation/HB Cares Autism Work Experience Project

By MPI Foundation

2017 MPI Foundation Grant Awarded

MPI Foundation provides grants to organizations that support and improve the community at large. HelmsBriscoe, the global leader in meetings procurement and site selection services, received a grant from the Foundation for its HB Cares Autism Work Experience Project. The initiative aims to raise funds to help young adults with autism gain work experience in the hospitality industry.

hb-cares-anna-sqAnna is a talented and dynamic Fine Art graduate, with some experience in the hospitality industry. Like other people on the autism spectrum, she can find new environments, people and situations challenging at times. Anna can also experience hyper sensitivity to noise, perceiving it louder or have difficulty filtering it out.  

The Autism Speaks program helped Anna look at every part of her potential employment journey, learn more about herself and her Autism, and meet people with similar disabilities. This empowered her to learn and understand not only how the workplace operates, but how she could raise awareness and understanding of Autism to advocate for herself in employment.  

hb-cares-robert-sqRobert studied IT at college and but had not had any previous work experience. Due to his autism condition, Robert has difficulty meeting new people and can find verbal communication challenging when put on the spot.

The Autism Speaks program placed Robert with a welcoming team at a local conference center in the human resources department. He was given clear instructions on tasks and became comfortably acclimated to an office environment. Robert’s confidence improved, along with his communication and attitude toward work. Robert is now able to better understand his own strengths and skills and knows what to expect in work situations.

 


Author

mpi-foundation-blue-tm
MPI Foundation

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.

 


AD HERE
READ MORE STORIES

 

 

 

MPI Foundation Legend Contributors

($50,000+ Annual Contributors)



SEE ALL CONTRIBUTORS