PCMA Foundation Awards Grants
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 8/1/2005
The Professional Convention Management Assn. Education Foundation has distributed $417,000 in grants, the largest total in its history, to a number of meetings-industry research and education projects. Foundation Chairman Sheila Stampfli said the grants would benefit the entire meetings industry through the programs they will support.
The larger grants awarded include an array of educational and research efforts:
- $75,000 for the Convention Industry Council Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) program
- $70,200 for a college internship program allowing students meeting planning experience
- $50,000 for revision of a textbook used for certification training and college-level, meetings-industry courses
- $70,000 for teaching aids and visual aids for the revised textbook
- $63,730 for a 2005 PCMA chapter leadership retreat
- $39,000 for a CEO and senior marketing executives summit
- $30,000 to place past PCMA Industry Issue Forum sessions into DVD format
CIC President Mary Power said APEX would use its grant to help meet the $450,000 shortfall remaining in APEX's original $1.9 million budget. This will bring APEX's development phase, creating content, closer to its goal of completion this year, Power added.
