I wish to go to New York and be like Kevin from Home Alone
Elijah, age, countrycondition/illness

Fairmont: Global Flagship Hotel Partner of Make-A-Wish

Together, Make-A-Wish and Fairmont, Accor, have an opportunity to join in a meaningful partnership with purpose. Through our efforts and impact, we can inspire our respective communities and grow new ones.

We are excited about the opportunity to form a partnership knowing that, together, we can help the impossible become possible by granting more wishes to children with critical illnesses. The kindness of the Fairmont and Accor family, that helps to grant wishes to children fighting critical illness will reflect the kindness that can exist in our world. Children who receive wishes will never meet everyone who helped to make it happen, but they will know there is enormous support backing them in a world that hasn’t always been so kind to them.

This proposal provides short overview about Make-A-Wish and a strategic partnership opportunity, highlighting the impact Fairmont could provide wish children, their families and communities, as well as both of our organisations.

About Make-A-Wish

Founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1980, when a group of caring volunteers helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, Make-A-Wish is one of the world's leading children's charities.

International Wishes Granted since 2015

With the help of generous donors and over 45,000 volunteers, Make-A-Wish has collectively granted approximately nearly 480,000 wishes worldwide since 1980.

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Together we can make a difference

During our introductory meetings, Fairmont identified some goals for a global integrated partnership with Make-A-Wish, we look to cover those here in our partnership proposal.

Fairmont & Make-A-Wish Global Partnership

We Are Better Together

Your contribution to Make-A-Wish has a significant impact on the world. You are helping to transform the lives of wish children, their families and even entire communities. A child fighting a critical illness did not do anything to deserve the hand they were dealt. While we can’t change their diagnosis, we can play a role in changing their life.

Together Fairmont, Accor and Make-A-Wish will do this by showing them there is still hope and joy in the world. A wish can remind them of a world beyond their current circumstances. Similar to your own values, we will use innovation and imagination to not only bring guests dreams to live but those wishes of our young beneficiaries.

Through our partnership, you are:

Engaging Fairmont employees

We will create a internal communication strategy and providing opportunities for Fairmont employees to engage in partnership directly - in wishes and special events locally.

Granting wishes worldwide

Helping Make-A-Wish impact communities across five continents through our more than 100 global offices and your hotel locations

Connecting with our cause

Sharing the unique stories with Fairmont employees and customers which shows the impact Fairmont is making through our partnership. We will create a partnership with purpose.

Benefits to Fairmont Accor

Working in partnership with Make-A-Wish we will:

Enhance reputation value for Fairmont
Strengthen local markets social impact
Provide stories to engage Fairmont wider stakeholders in a partnership mission that directly relates to your core business
Help create a culture of inclusion and understanding with Fairmont and Accor employees, uniting markets and people all around the world
Foster brand affinity from employees towards the Fairmont name, helping staff to be proud of where they work

Most importantly; we will help create and maintain a happy and healthy workforce.

Research by ‘Action for Happiness’ shows that the happiness of a close contact increases the chance of being happy by 15%. The happiness of a 2nd-degree contact (e.g. friend's spouse) by 10% and the happiness of a 3rd-degree contact (e.g. friend of a friend of a friend) by 6%.

Let’s Play it Forward!

Thank you for your consideration

I wish to have a staycation in Sentosa
Nayumie, 7, Singaporeend stage renal failure

Thank you, Fairmont for considering Make-A-Wish.

We strive to do more because we know that the wish granting experience can be a critical part of a child’s healing process. Make-A-Wish granted more than 30,000 wishes last year, but we are far from meeting the global need. There are still thousands of children diagnosed each year with a critical illness whom Make-A-Wish is trying to reach through medical outreach and established global infrastructure that supports and delivers life-changing wishes. To be able to grant the wish of every eligible child, we need Fairmonts support in our pursuit.

Together, we can make a meaningful difference, and truly deliver holistic care for children, focusing on their physical needs, as well as the psychological one also.

For more information, please contact:

Amanda Crozier

Director, Corporate AlliancesMake-A-Wish International
Email: acrozier@worldwish.org Phone: +44 7815622719

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