Adult Literacy Tutors Association

Hyatt Regency Trinidad

Education & Personal Advancement

ALTA provides critical adult literacy training and workshops in more than 50 locations throughout Trinidad and Tobago. It helps adults, especially parents, increase their self-sufficiency and employability.

Bring Me A Book Hong Kong

Divisional Office of Hong Kong

Education & Personal Advancement

Hyatt associates regularly attend Bring Me a Book's "Read Aloud Trainings" to learn strategies to engage and teach children to read.  Recently, the team organized a book donation and visited a classroom to read with children.

Calgary Ubran Projects Society (CUPS)

Hyatt Regency Calgary

Heath & Wellness

Since opening 12 years ago, Hyatt Regency Calgary has actively supported CUPS, an organization providing services of impoverished children and families, through fundraising, donating meals, painting classrooms and supporting local families through the annual "Adopt-a-Family" holiday campaign.

Caritas of Austin

Hyatt Place Austin-North Central

Economic Development & Investment

For nearly four years, Hyatt Place Austin-North Central has partnered with Caritas to employ clients through its housekeeping training program.  In fact, seven of the hotel's 30 associates were hired through this training program.

Dunkelziffer e.V.

Park Hyatt Hamburg

Heath & Wellness

Since 1998, Park Hyatt Hamburg has partnered with Dunkelziffer e. V., which raises awareness and provides support to child victims of sexual abuse, to sponsor fundraisers, seminars and holiday events for the organization.

Emily Griffith Foundation

Hyatt Regency Denver

Economic Development & Investment

Since 2006, Emily Griffith Foundation's Women Intensive Skills Camp has educated and trained more than 1,000 refugees - 192 of which completed training at Hyatt Regency Denver.  The hotel provides students with job shadow experiences and has hired graduates, including one student who received the hotel's prestigious Employee of the Year Award in 2011.

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