Kingsmill Resort has a mantra that states the hotel should “be more than another business in the community, be a community member.”
The statement is a testament not only to Kingsmill Resort, but to all the Associated Luxury Hotels International hotels who made a difference by supporting charitable organizations and communities in need this past year.
Here’s a look at how ALHI hotels’ commitment to service impacted their neighbors in 2025.
Claremont Resort & Club
Each quarter the Claremont Resort & Club and Claremont Conservatory teams join forces to volunteer at Garber Park, located behind the resort, to cleanup and landscape the green space. In the afternoons, the hotel’s team refreshes the on-site Chef’s Garden, where many of the herbs featured in the hotel’s culinary offerings are grown. The hotel is committed to preserving and enhancing the natural environment in the neighborhood it calls home.
Fairmont Orchid - Hawaii
Fairmont Orchid - Hawaii sponsored 14,400 meals for Hawaiʻi Island families in need through a partnership with The Food Basket, Hawai‘i Island’s Food Bank. As part of this initiative, the resort supported an ʻOhana Food Drop, providing fresh produce, pantry essentials and other critical items to local families ahead of the holiday season.
“Our Fairmont Orchid ‘ohana is honored to work alongside The Food Basket to ensure that our Hawai‘i Island community is cared for and nourished,” said Marion te Winkel, Hotel Manager at Fairmont Orchid - Hawaii. “In addition to supporting the ‘Ohana Food Drop, we are thrilled to host the annual Turkey Trot at our property, a beloved tradition that brings the island together and raises money to make the holidays brighter for those who need it most.”
Fairmont Orchid - Hawaii hosted its 8th annual Turkey Trot 2025, a festive 5K run/walk with all proceeds benefiting The Food Basket. Guests and community members were invited to join in the fun, enjoy a morning of fitness and aloha, and give back to Hawai‘i Island families. Participants enjoyed complimentary refreshments and cocktails and prize opportunities, with a grand prize winner receiving a one-night stay at Fairmont Orchid.
“It’s this kind of partnership that reminds us how powerful community can be when we come together to care for one another,” said Kristin Frost Albrecht, Executive Director of The Food Basket. “This has been a really challenging time for Hawai‘i Island, and the Turkey Trot is always a wonderful opportunity to reach families, enjoy time together, and celebrate the spirit of giving.”
Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin
Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin continued its commitment to supporting the local community by hosting the annual Veterans Concert, organized in partnership with the Municipality of Noordwijk and the Veterans Foundation Noordwijk. The hotel sponsored the event by providing the venue, food and beverages. About 500 guests attended the concert, which was open to all veterans in the region and throughout the Netherlands, along with their families. The highlight of the evening was Vrijheid in Beeld (“Freedom in Focus”), a unique concert experience by the Royal Military Band ‘Johan Willem Friso,’ created in collaboration with filmmaker Frank van Osch. Four musicians from the orchestra shared their own family stories about war and liberation—brought to life through an evocative blend of film and music.
Halekulani
A team of 20 colleagues from Halekulani spent the day volunteering with Kāko‘o ‘Ōiwi, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring traditional Hawaiian agriculture in the He‘eia wetlands. As part of an ongoing commitment to caring for the land and supporting local food sustainability, the hotel team worked directly in the lo‘i kalo (taro patches), helping remove invasive weeds, restore the fields and strengthen habitat areas for endangered native waterbirds such as the ‘ae‘o (Hawaiian stilt).
Through these efforts, Kāko‘o ‘Ōiwi continues to increase local food production and provide fresh kalo and other crops to the community, efforts that help feed up to 3,000 residents. The partnership allows both hotel staff and guests to learn about traditional Hawaiian farming practices, deepen cultural understanding and contribute meaningful hands-on support to a vital community resource.
Hotel Effie Sandestin, Autograph Collection
The team at Hotel Effie Sandestin, Autograph Collection participated in two initiatives that reflect dedication to environmental stewardship and community care.
The first was on International Coastal Cleanup Day, where hotel staff joined volunteers across the globe in one of the world’s largest annual beach preservation efforts. Working alongside the local community at the Sandestin Main Beach Access, the volunteers spent the morning removing debris and restoring the shoreline. This collective effort not only resulted in a cleaner, healthier coastline but also helped raise awareness about small, everyday actions that can protect our oceans and beaches for future generations.
A second initiative was Thanksgiving Bag Packing with Caring & Sharing, partnering with Caring & Sharing of South Walton, a support organization for local low-income families. The volunteers helped pack Thanksgiving meal bags for more than 650 Walton County families.
Kingsmill Resort
Adhering to its mantra to “be more than another business in the community, be a community member,” Kingsmill Resort expanded its volunteer efforts beyond the work traditionally done on behalf of initiatives such as a food drive benefiting local food pantries, a school supply drive benefiting the Grove Christian Outreach Center, and clothing drive supporting Boots to Suits. This year, the hotel added blood drives with the American Red Cross, mobile mammogram events with Sentara Healthcare, and shifted its promotional item purchases to DLA Promotions, which donates 100% of its profits to eye, tissue and organ donation.
The school supply drive generated enough supplies to outfit multiple classes of children with supplies; the clothing drive for Boots to Suits filled up multiple clothing racks with donations; and the food drive is on pace to be the largest to date. There have been two blood drives and two mammogram events this year and more are planned for 2026.
Limelight Denver
The Front Range Community Fund is an employee-run initiative that grants proceeds to non-profits, tackling issues such as environmental stewardship, minority leadership programs and assistance for the unhoused. One dollar per night from every Limelight Denver hotel reservation goes to the fund, along with employee and guest donations; Limelight Denver then matches the guest and employee donations up to $20,000 annually. An all-employee board grants the funding annually to local non-profits serving and improving the community. The board is currently conducting interviews to distribute the approximately $50,000 raised so far this year. Contributions and time are also donated to local efforts such as: the Denver Public Schools Foundation, where Limelight Denver employees conducted a school supply drive to support students as they headed back to school; volunteered time to Girls on the Run, which works to empower young women, at the end-of-season 5K; and assisted in the Cherry Creek Clean Up, beautifying green space nearby the hotel and for residents of Downtown Denver.
MGM Resorts
The largely employee-funded MGM Resorts Foundation distributed grants to deserving charities. Nearly $3.2 million funded 134 grants to nonprofits in the regions in which MGM Resorts operates. Grants support organizations focused on food insecurity, homelessness, affordable housing, health and wellness, K-12 education, workforce development, family services and services for seniors and veterans. MGM Resorts employees have volunteered more than 1 million hours, including over 66,000 hours so far in 2025. During Hunger Action Month, more than 300 employees joined forces to pack nearly 77,000 meals for Three Square, Nevada’s largest food bank. These meals were distributed to at-risk seniors and children to ensure they have food over the weekend.
Nobu Hotel Barcelona
The hotel continued its support of Fundació Avismón, dedicated to improving the lives of elderly individuals experiencing unwanted loneliness, by participating in activities designed to provide companionship and emotional support, helping to combat social isolation and promote well-being. As part of the Sant Jordi celebration on April 23, staff visited a local residence to gift red roses. Another initiative supported the Down Syndrome Foundation labor inclusion program. This partnership resulted in integrated a member of the foundation into the hotel’s housekeeping team. Additionally, the hotel maintains a partnership with Fundació Joia, an organization focused on the social and labor reintegration of individuals with mental health challenges, helping organize immersive experiences in the culinary area, where students from the foundation visit hotel kitchens as part of practical training.
Omni La Costa Resort & Spa
This year, team members participated in a beach cleanup, volunteered at Feeding San Diego with Omni La Costa Resort & Spa interns, and adopted a family through Solutions for Change this holiday season. The hotel has also hosted a canned food drive, clothing drive, firefighter food drop-off and raised money for Got Your Back San Diego, a food assistance program.
Omni PGA Frisco Resort & Spa
The 2025 SAVOR event hosted by Omni PGA Frisco Resort & Spa raised $10,000 for the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB), helping provide access to more than 30,000 meals for neighbors in need across North Texas, where hunger is a growing crisis. The hotel team also volunteered at a partner food bank, as Texas now leads the nation in hunger, and North Texas ranks eighth nationwide in food insecurity. Nearly 664,000 people—40% of them children—struggle daily to access enough food.
Paséa Hotel & Spa
As wildfires impacted the Los Angeles region in early 2025, Paséa Hotel & Spa extended a special evacuee rate to support displaced residents, resulting in 215 room nights booked. The hotel also contributed to regional relief efforts, including donations to Best Friends Animal Society to support pets affected by the fires, as well as a contribution to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank through the Orange County Restaurants Wildfire Relief Dine Out fundraiser.
Portola Hotel & Spa
The hotel partners in a quarterly beach cleanup project with Save Our Shores, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering thriving and sustainable ecosystems in the Monterey Bay. The hotel team collected trash, recycling and cigarette butts at Del Monte Beach. Through four beach clean ups, 50 participants collected 19 pounds of recycling, more than 42 pounds of trash and three pounds of cigarette butts.
Prince Waikiki
A portion of every guest stay is donated to the hotel’s charitable program, The Prince Commitment, which supports Hawai'i-based nonprofits. In the past year, $100,000 was raised and donated to local organizations such as: Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, which focuses on coastal stewardship through cleanups, education and advocacy; the Hawaii Community Foundation-Maui Strong Fund, providing financial resources to support the recovery needs of the people and places affected by the devastating Maui wildfires; Make A Wish Hawaii; Honolulu Museum of Art; and Anuenue School, which empowers children by providing a quality education in both Hawaiian and English.
Prince Waikiki also added the Bishop Museum and the Hawaii Theatre to its list of nonprofit recipients.
"The Prince Commitment is our way of giving back to the community that has supported us for many years," said Sean Ganhinhin, General Manager of Prince Waikiki.
Rosen Hotels & Resorts (Rosen Centre Hotel and Rosen Shingle Creek)
This year, approximately 449 associates volunteered at 37 service projects, resulting in 1,525 volunteer hours. Highlights include:
Each year in June, to honor the company’s anniversary, Rosen Hotels & Resorts hosts Day of Service with U.S. Hunger, and more than 60 associates packaged 10,000 meals. The company also volunteers with U.S. Hunger and the city of Orlando on Martin Luther King Day for MLK Million Meal Pack, with 1 million meals packed throughout the day.
A Tree-Mendous Affair is an annual holiday event that invites local non-profits to compete in a friendly, festive tree decorating competition at Rosen Shingle Creek. This year, 28 organizations are signed up to participate, including The Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida, Best Friends Animal Society, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, The Coalition for the Homeless and many more. The nonprofit organization whose tree receives the most votes receives a contribution from the Harris Rosen Foundation.
As part of Rosen Hotels & Resorts’ 50th anniversary celebrations in 2024, the company launched its ‘I Can Make An Impact’ campaign which encourages associates to volunteer and become more involved in the community. The program was so successful, the company adopted it as part of its annual community engagement initiatives. The impact team sponsors at least two service projects each month but encourages associates to go beyond that as well. Notable engagements this year include volunteering with Honor Flight Central Florida on Veteran’s Day to honor veterans; helping at United Against Poverty’s food pantry to aid in the fight against food insecurity; participating in Habitat for Humanity builds with associates and Rosen scholars; and volunteering with Runway to Hope to uplift children and families battling pediatric cancer. Earlier this year, 30 members of our leadership team volunteered at 4Roots, supporting sustainable agriculture while helping to grow food for local communities.
The Royal Sonesta New Orleans
A major focus this year has been empowering the next generation of hospitality professionals. As an employer partner of Reconcile, The Royal Sonesta New Orleans provides students with real-world training across departments—from engineering to culinary—and welcomed one Reconcile graduate as a cook in Restaurant R’evolution. Team members regularly contribute to Reconcile by leading professional-development sessions, participating in mock interviews, attending graduations and choosing Café Reconcile for team meals to support the organization’s work.
The hotel continued its relationship with the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI) by participating in job fairs, encouraging staff to pursue continuing education, and supporting training through New Orleans & Company. This year, PJ’s barista Trinell Bacchus completed 15 hours of NOCHI training. Additionally, the Royal Sonesta became the first hotel partner for LSU Health Sciences Center’s PAYCheck program, providing internship opportunities for young adults eligible for Louisiana Rehabilitation Services. The hotel is a participant in the NOLA Employer Quality Network by sharing anonymous employee data, learning from research-backed insights, and implementing recommended practices to enhance job quality and engagement for its team.
The hotel also supports United Way Southeast through its sponsorship of the Got Gumbo event, and mobilized team members to volunteer at Second Harvest Food Bank.
Silverado Resort
Silverado Resort supported several initiatives including its ongoing volunteer work with Connolly Ranch and participation in the 5th Annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s benefiting the Alzheimer’s Association.
During the quarterly community service day at Connolly Ranch, team members contributed to the ranch’s mission of environmental education and sustainable living, assisting with garden and farm projects that directly support programs for local students and families. The resort team participated the 2nd Annual Earth Day Community Service in partnership with Napa Parks & Recreation, working at Napa’s Oxbow Preserve to remove invasive ivy and restore the health of the watershed.
For the fifth consecutive year, the team at Silverado Resort joined the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
Stein Eriksen Lodge
The hotel, inspired by Stein Eriksen, an Olympic champion who believed in giving back as much as he achieved, is a key supporter and partner of the Youth Sports Alliance, hosting the organization’s annual fundraiser to help youth access sports and outdoor opportunities that build confidence and character. Through the Stein Eriksen Scholarship Fund, YSA, the Lodge and its partners have awarded over $1.2 million in scholarships since the program’s inception, directly supporting young athletes and students in Summit County. Beyond YSA, the Lodge’s philanthropic reach extends to initiatives serving homeless individuals, veterans, first responders, seniors and children.
The Broadmoor
The Broadmoor partners with The Empty Stocking Fund, a philanthropic endeavor that channels resources to 20 health and human services agencies across the region. This collaboration has already touched the lives of more than 350,000 individuals—from crisis intervention to empowering self-sufficiency. Creative partnerships also support this mission. For example, members of the Soli Deo Gloria Community Choir fill International Hall with uplifting music during complimentary Easter and holiday concerts. Parking fees collected during these events help bolster contributions to The Empty Stocking Fund, and Care and Share Food Bank. The resort’s Pitty Pat Club, named in honor of Julie Penrose’s beloved black miniature poodle, provides guests traveling with pets an array of tailored services—from custom bedding and special pet menus to expert referrals. A portion of the proceeds from pet fees is donated to the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region and The Empty Stocking Fund. Additional fundraising efforts include contributions from events like Empty Stocking Fund cookie sales; funds generated by closing day admissions to Seven Falls and closing day parking fees for The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway; and even a portion of holiday ticket sales to the 2025 U.S. Senior Open.
The Maybourne Beverly Hills
The Maybourne Beverly Hills began the year by hosting a Community Fire Relief Fundraiser, bringing together employees and residents to raise donations for those affected by the devastating Los Angeles fires. All contributions were distributed to key organizations supporting recovery efforts. In February, The Maybourne Beverly Hills partnered with five other Beverly Hills hotels for the Eat. Donate. Love campaign, where proceeds from each participating hotel went directly to Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts, raising over $25,000. On February 13, the hotel celebrated Valentine’s Day with a special event benefiting Project Camp, an organization creating pop-up camps and schools for children whose schools were lost in the fires. Through ticket sales and a silent auction, more than $7,500 was raised to provide safe spaces for kids while families rebuild, an initiative that will return in 2026. The hotel also partnered with Wolfgang Puck and the city of Beverly Hills to host the Beverly Hills Autumn BBQ in Beverly Cañon Gardens, a celebration featuring award-winning chefs and mixologists. This event supported No Kid Hungry, with 20% of ticket sales and 100% of silent auction proceeds donated, raising over $41,000 to help end childhood hunger.
The Sanderling Resort
The hotel launched a Community Impact Fund supporting six local nonprofits across Dare and Currituck counties. The initiative is made possible through the guests who pay into the program, which focuses on advancing local causes in education, conservation, hunger relief and holiday giving.
“We’re fortunate to work in a place where community truly means something,” said Janae Gier, Director of Sales and Marketing at The Sanderling Resort. “Whether it’s helping a teacher, supporting a student-athlete, or assisting a local family, this fund is our way of saying thank you to the Outer Banks—especially during the quieter months, when our neighbors need it most.”
The $30,000 raised supported organizations such as North Carolina Coastal Federation; Beach Food Pantry; Toys for Tots in Dare, Currituck and Camden counties; First Flight Nighthawk Athletic Club; Currituck Education Foundation; and Dare Education Foundation.
Resort employees participated in shoreline cleanups, local drives and community outreach events.
The Community Impact Fund also supports an Outer Banks Advantage Locals Discount Card for residents and the annual First Responders Day, a fall celebration honoring the region’s dedicated police, fire and EMS teams.