Following 11 Mindful Matters Series events across the country, MGM Resorts International donated $20,000 to the Healing Center at St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. Here’s what I learned about the effort during the Mindful Matters Series event in Chicago.

Resume expert and meetings industry speaker Dawn Rasmussen’s pandemic experience was radically changed by saving an abandoned newborn deer, which she named Thor, and preparing him for a return to the wild.

U.K.-based Invisible Cities takes corporate social responsibility to new heights, training people who have experienced homelessness to become walking tour guides of their own city. 

By their very nature—and culture—Native American-owned casino resorts are huge benefactors to their tribes and the communities in which they operate.

These individuals stepped up to help their meetings and events industry colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic or advance the cause of social justice and fight systemic racism following the George Floyd killing. Read more.

How professionals in the meetings and events industry are lifting each other up during the hard times brought on by COVID-19. Read more.

Victoria, British Columbia-based Wear2Start Society gives a helping hand to assist local self-identified women in taking that first step to finding a job and launching a career by providing clothing, accessories, shoes, handbags and essential care items. The service, which is powered by donations, is free of charge to the client. Read more.

While many in the meetings, events and hospitality industry donate their time and money to helping the less fortunate in the communities in which they live and the destinations where they meet, entertainment producer Mark Sonder answered the call of his country by volunteering in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Hilton is keen to emphasize the charitable efforts that have helped define it for a century as it celebrates its 100th anniversary. Its Hilton Effect Foundation, Travel With Purpose, Meet With Purpose and the more recent Random Acts of Hospitality service initiative harken back to its founder’s belief in bettering humanity.