Our annual Conference Cause has generated more than $200,000 and engaged 175+ volunteers.
Conference Cause
Each year, thousands of PLUS members gather for an event that is considered the industry's leading professional conference. The PLUS Foundation uses this opportunity to engage volunteers and raise funds to support a local charity hosting the conference.
PLUS Foundation Conference Cause 2010:
The Children's Shelter (San Antonio)
The Children's Shelter has provided services to the San Antonio area since 1901. The mission is to "Strengthen community by providing safety, well-being and lasting families for children." Services have expanded from emergency shelter to a continuum of care that includes foster care, adoption, residential treatment, child abuse prevention, teen pregnancy and parenting programs.
- EMERGENCY SHELTER CARE Provides 24 hour emergency care for up to 56 children per day.
- THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE Provides children with 24-hour substitute therapeutic family care.
- ADOPTION Facilitates adoption by recruiting, and training prospective adoptive families.
- RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT Provides care for children who have been victimized by abuse, neglect or abandonment.
- COMPADRE Y COMPADRE Brother to Brother is a fathers only parenting program.
- COMMUNITY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT Provides youth programs and partners with other agencies to prevent juvenile delinquency.
- PROJECT MOTHERS AND SCHOOLS Provides support groups, parenting classes, and tutoring to pregnant teens.
- NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP Serves first-time, low income mothers and families until the baby is two years old.
For more information visit www.chshel.org.
This will be the PLUS Foundation's seventh annual CONFERENCE CAUSE – a philanthropic initiative designed to reflect the generosity of the PLUS membership and to make a positive contribution to the communities that host the Annual PLUS Conference.
Conference Cause 2008:
- $25,000 was donated to the Child Life Program
- 6,000 "Welcome Packages" for children being admitted to the hospital were assembled and donated by PLUS Foundation volunteers
- Nearly 150 PLUS Foundation volunteers gave of their time and talent to Conference Cause 2008
Past Conference Causes
- 2007 - $56,000 to the Walter Reed Society, and a dinner/entertainment event for recovering soldiers and their families hosted by 48 PLUS Foundation volunteers.
- 2006 - $25,000 to Special Olympics/Special Children's Charities of Chicago, and 20 PLUS Foundation volunteers working the annual soccer tournament
- 2005 - $28,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Boston, and 20 volunteers held a bowling and pizza party for 100 kids and their mentors
- 2004 - $33,000 to the Armed Services YMCA of San Diego, and 23 PLUS Foundation volunteers fed over 300 servicemen and women from the USS Boxer
