Hospitality Helping Hands

Saturday, January 10, 2009 and Sunday, January 11, 2009

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Network for the Needy® Founding and Principal Partner – GES Exposition Services

PCMA’s Hospitality Helping Hands, a Network for the Needy Program®, is an incredible opportunity for you to step out of the convention center and into a New Orleans 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 and a commemorative t-shirt will be provided. Your entire $75 USD participation fee will go directly to the local organizations.

View the 2008 Hospitality Helping Hands Photo Archive

 

Choose to Help One of These Three Charities:

ST. BERNARD PROJECT
The St. Bernard Project strives to help rebuild the lives of Hurricane Katrina victims family by family. Volunteers will assist in painting, spackling and rebuilding sections of the houses affected by the storm. The St. Bernard Project is scheduled Saturday, January 10: 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

SAVE OUR CEMETERIES

At the Save our Cemeteries sites, volunteers will help landscape the historic tomb areas that are a special and unique part of New Orleans heritage.The Save Our Cemeteries Project has scheduled two opportunities to help. Choose to volunteer Sunday, January 11: 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. or 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

CITY PARK

At 1,300 acres, City Park is one of the largest urban parks in the country. Volunteers will be helping to beautify areas of the Park with activities such as trimming, clearing, gathering and planting; all essential for the recovery of the Park and for the Park to take its place in the cultural and recreational rebirth of New Orleans. The City Park Project has scheduled two opportunities to help. Choose Saturday, January 10: 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. or 11:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.


Important:

Participation is limited to 500 attendees. It is important for you to select the project on wish you would like to work when you register so that we can accommodate all interested attendees.  All Hospitality Helping Hands registrants will be sent an e-mail confirmation and full project details prior to arrival in New Orleans.  If you are not able to participate but still wish to donate to these charities you can.  Please indicate your donation on your registration form.


If you have questions, please contact Liz Giannini at 312-423-7231 or lgiannini@pcma.org.

Looking for another way to help?

All New Orleans libraries were affected during the storms of 2005 and they need our help to get them back up and running. PCMA's Network for the Needy program will be collecting items for Better World Books. Proceeds from the sale of these books will benefit the New Orleans Public Library Foundation. 

Acceptable Donations:

  • Books with an ISBN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isbn). The ISBN may be printed in barcode format on a book’s back cover (or inside a mass-market paperback’s front cover). Alternatively, the ISBN may be printed in 10-digit or 13-digit format on the book’s copyright page.
  • DVDs, music CDs and books on CD with original artwork and casing
  • Software that has not been opened
  • Gently used children’s books – no ISBN required
  • Textbooks that were published within the past three years

Unacceptable Donations:

  • Damaged books (missing cover, warped, moldy, etc.)
  • Books without an ISBN, unless you know that they are rare and collectable*
  • Academic journals, literary criticisms, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book or incomplete sets
  • Magazines, periodicals, books published by magazines (e.g., Readers Digest Condensed Books), activity books
  • Case law or procedural law course packets or tax documents
  • LP records, VHS, cassettes

For those interested in shipping directly in advance (postage paid) please use the following shipping info:

BETTER WORLD BOOKS
Attn: Rebuild NOPL
55740 Currant Road
Mishawaka, IN 46545
Remember to mark boxes “Rebuild NOPL”