ConventionPlanit.com Staff Donates to PMPI Charity of the Year

Dec 08

Ashley ChalmersNews charity, MPI Comments Off

This year, in lieu of purchasing holiday gifts for one another, our staff decided to make donations  to the Children’s Inn at NIH…

…a private, nonprofit, family-centered residence established to keep children  with their families while the children participate in ground-breaking medical research for serious illnesses at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Children’s Inn at NIH is the Potomac Meeting Professionals International (PMPI) 2010 Charity of the Year.

Since opening in June of 1990, The Inn has hosted more than 10,000 families from all 50 states and 74 countries. The Inn has the capacity to house up to 74 families per night. In fiscal year 2008, 1,400 children and their families called The Inn home.

There is no charge for a family to stay at The Inn.

These young patients range in age from birth to young adulthood. They face medical challenges such as cancer, heart, lung, growth and blood diseases and mental disorders that lack successful treatment and are only researched and treated at NIH.

“Everyone who is in good health has much to be thankful for during this holiday season,” says ConventionPlanit.com Co-Founder and Principal Katherine Markham, CHME.

“We all decided that giving to this worthy cause was the right thing to do this year to help these children and their families. We pray that their treatments will succeed and that they recover.”

What are some of your favorite charities? Does your company or organization contribute to one in particular?