Hospitality Helping Hands
Saturday, January 12, 2008
12:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Experient and Marriott Convention & Resort Network
PCMA’s Hospitality Helping Hands is a chance for you to step out of the convention center and into a Seattle neighborhood to participate in a hands-on, community service project. This is a great way to meet new colleagues, see old friends, and start your PCMA Annual Meeting experience. We invite you to share your time and talents to see how a few hours can make a world of difference to those in need. Transportation, box lunch and a commemorative t-shirt will be provided. Your entire $75 USD participation fee will go directly to the local organization. Note: Participation is limited to 120 attendees. Please sign up on the registration form. All Hospitality Helping Hands registrants will be sent an email confirmation and full project details prior to arrival in Seattle.
In 2008, Hospitality Helping Hands volunteers will donate their time and talents to The Aloha Inn and Food Lifeline. As Washington's largest hunger relief agency, Food Lifeline works to provide nutritious food to hungry people in Western Washington. Volunteers will sort, label, and repackage bulk food products into smaller family sized portions for distribution. At the Aloha Inn, volunteers will paint both common areas and individual rooms to brighten up resident living quarters. The Aloha Inn provides temporary housing for homeless people and allows residents to save money for permanent housing while providing access to job training and support services.
Click here to view the 2007 Hospitality Helping Hands Photo Archive!
Looking for another way to help?
PCMA's Network for the Needy program will be collecting items for Dress for Success of Seattle at the 2008 PCMA Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. We encourage you to please bring the following items:
- professional tote bags
- umbrellas
- professional gloves, hats, scarves
- new hygiene items, (including make-up, hair care and toiletries)
- new hosiery
- other women’s professional items
Dress for Success Worldwide was founded by Nancy Lubin in New York City in 1996, with a $5,000 inheritance and a desire to make a difference. Today, there are 80 affiliates around the world. Dress for Success Seattle (DFSS) was founded in 1998 and is now managed by the YWCA of Seattle, King County, Snohomish County. The mission of Dress for Success is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help them thrive in work and in life.
Dress for Success Seattle works with women in transition, easing their passage from domestic violence, homelessness, outdated skills, limited English proficiency and a myriad of other situations which have kept them from realizing their full potential. DFSS offers more than clothing – they offer the support of a Professional Women’s Group for networking and career development and the Woman2Woman program which offers one-on-one mentoring and life coaching. They also manage the YWCA’s Working Wardrobe program which is a clothing bank available to women referred by community program partners. DFSS depends on the generosity of individuals, foundations, retail partners and volunteers to make our mission a reality.” In Summer, 2007, DFSS will suit their 5000th client.
