Corporate Citizenship
DC SCORES and Special Olympics Maryland
Raised money for DC Scores and Special Olympics Maryland via Host’s internal, online charitable marketplace. Employees bid on hotels stays, home décor, sports memorabilia and more donated by our hotels, vendors and local businesses. Every bid contributed directly to support the two local organizations to empower youth and promote holistic health and well-being.
$29K
RAISED
Rock Creek Conservancy
Partnered with Rock Creek Conservancy to help protect and restore Rock Creek and its wildlife and parklands by wrangling and removing non-native, invasive plants and weeds around the grounds of the Rock Creek Park Nature Center in Washington, D.C.
15
VOLUNTEERS
4
LARGE PILES OF WEEDS
Back-to-School Drive
Partnered with Playtime Project to host a back-to-school drive for kids facing housing insecurity in the Washington, D.C. area. Donated school supplies—including pencils, paper, notebooks, binders, calculators and many other essentials—to ensure local students in need are equipped to succeed this school year.
235
BACKPACKS FILLED WITH SUPPLIES
Latin American Youth Center
Organized by Host’s Green Team, partnered with Latin American Youth Center to beautify the grounds at their Maryland Multicultural Youth Center. Volunteers helped mulch and plant shrubs and flowers in the entryway and build a vegetable and herb garden that will be cared for by the youth in LAYC’s after school programs.
125
FLOWERS PLANTED
50
HERBS, FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PLANTS
Comfort Cases
Partnered with Comfort Cases to help bring hope and dignity to youth in foster care. Volunteers packed backpacks filled with comfort and personal care items for a child’s first few days in the foster care system and made fleece blankets. Ran a toiletry drive where we collected travel-sized toiletries and other essentials to include in bags for children.
195
BACKPACKS PACKED
100
TOILETRIES DONATED
A Wider Circle
Organized a clothing drive, collecting new and gently used men’s and women’s professional clothing and accessories for A Wider Circle’s Professional Development Center, which provides professional clothing free-of-charge to anyone who needs it. Toured the organization’s facility in Silver Spring, MD to see first-hand the impact of our clothing donations and our furniture donations from local hotel renovation projects.
18
BOXES OF CLOTHING DONATED
16,211
PIECES OF FURNITURE DONATED
Holiday Giving
Partnered with Central Union Mission to help make the holidays a little brighter for less fortunate families in our local community. Sponsored 70 at-risk local children whose families are struggling financially by purchasing gifts and winter coats and wrapping presents.
300
GIFTS
$6,000
EMPLOYEE DONATIONS
Warrior Canine Connection
Purchased items for supply bags that are presented to a veteran when paired with a service dog. Volunteers wrapped each item, assembled the bags and wrote thank you notes to be included in each bag. Representatives from WCC, along with three service dogs, were available to talk about how their training program provides therapeutic benefits for veterans, and participants enjoyed snacks from Dog Tag Bakery in Washington, D.C., which serves as a teaching ground to empower veterans and military families to find renewed purpose.
440
DOG ITEMS
40
SUPPLY BAGS AND CARDS
Habitat for Humanity
Built playhouses with Habitat for Humanity Metro Maryland at the Silver Spring Habitat ReStore. Participants spent the day deciphering instructions, assembling the structures and painting each playhouse with bright and cheerful colors. Volunteers also took part in an insightful lunch-and-learn led by Habitat team members. The completed playhouses will be donated to Habitat partner families, auctioned off to raise funds for the organization’s programs and services or gifted to local institutions that serve children.
24
VOLUNTEERS
6
COMPLETED PLAYHOUSES
Second Chance Wildlife Center
Teamed up with Second Chance Wildlife Center to help injured and orphaned wild animals in our area. Volunteers cleaned out the organization’s barn, carrying out old cages, machinery and pieces of wood to the dumpster, filling all three dumpsters to the brim. Volunteers also had the opportunity to help with the animals being cared for, including turtles and baby squirrels.
28
VOLUNTEERS
3
BOXES OF DONATED MATERIALS
FRESHFARM
Partnered with FRESHFARM—a local nonprofit that works to create a more equitable and sustainable food future—to build the legacy FoodPrints garden for young students at the School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens in Washington, D.C. Volunteers helped mulch garden paths and build pollinator and vegetable gardens.
25
VOLUNTEERS
Project Clean Stream
As part of our strategic partnership and support of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, participated in Project Clean Stream—the Alliance's seasonal clean up where volunteers come together in their local communities to help foster a healthier and more sustainable Chesapeake. Helped keep our parks and streams clean by picking up trash around Rock Creek Trail near Host’s corporate headquarters in Bethesda, MD.
45
VOLUNTEERS
DDEI Campaign Founding Donor
Founding Donor of the Nareit Foundation's Dividends Through Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DDEI) Giving Campaign, which supports charitable and educational organizations that will help create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive REIT and publicly traded real estate industry. Funding supports programs that focus on educating and creating opportunities for diverse individuals and businesses within the industry.
$50K
FOUNDING DONOR
Junior Achievement
Sponsored the entertainment storefront designed at JA Finance Park in Montgomery County — a reality-based mock city where students experience the challenges of making real-life financial decisions.
12,000
STUDENTS
REACHED
Sponsor
ENTERTANMENT
STOREFRONT
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