Hospitality Helping Hands was created as a way for the meetings industry to give back to the community in which the PCMA Annual Meeting is held. Each year PCMA holds its Annual Meeting in a different city and tries, through Hospitality Helping Hands, to leave the community better than before the start of the Annual Meeting.

For two days prior to the PCMA Annual Meeting, attendees have the opportunity to participate in "hands-on" community service projects. Each person involved pays a "participation fee" and works side-by-side with other attendees to help the chosen charity. In addition to a unique networking opportunity, each attendee receives the satisfaction of helping out the community. The entire participation fee will go directly to the local organizations involved in Hospitality Helping Hands in a given year.

For more information about the 2009 Hospitality Helping Hands projects,  click here.

For photos from 2008 projects,  click here .

Hospitality Helping Hands is a Network for the Needy® (NFTN) program. NFTN promotes volunteerism through the meetings and convention industry and is sponsored in part by a generous grant from GES Exposition Services.

For information on Hospitality Helping Hands, please contact Liz Giannini at lgiannini@pcma.org or 312.423.7231.