The Incentive for Excellence

Does the holiday season make you want to count your blessings? Does the holiday season make you want to give back in some way? If so, you are not alone!

Fortunately for us, our SITE SoCal hospitality community will be coming together to celebrate our 20^th Annual SITE SoCal Holiday Event.

Your support matters. All donations, regardless of size, make a tangible impact on each charity – and a forever relationship. This year we will have the great opportunity to be introduced to three organizations making a huge impact in our local communities.

SITE Southern California Young Leaders worked alongside the Beauty Bus Foundation this week to help pack 600 gift bags for chronically or terminally ill men, women, and children. What a wonderful and inspiring opportunity to work with one of the three charities we highlighted at our 2014 Holiday Event.

CSR is one of the hottest words in the event industry over the past few years and we are certainly taking note. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming more and more recognized as a permanent slot in your meeting itinerary and rightly so. Businesses recognize the importance of off-setting their footprint and connecting with the local community. Organizing CSR projects provides businesses with:

• Connection and knowledge of the local area and the people that live there
• Great PR! It looks good on paper (and websites), folks. More and more clients are looking to work with companies who donate their time or resources to a good cause
• Provides a way for your employees to get to know each other, work together, and complete a project that they feel really good about

Here are 5 innovative CSR ideas from the pros for your next event…

Because of you and your generous donations to the San Diego Food Bank at the May 14^th meeting, we were able to assist 174 people in need and we exceeded our goal of 200 lbs!

Together we are making our community a better place!

SITE SoCal Community Services / Charities Committee