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Building on the positive impact of IHG's responsible business programs, such as IHG Hope Schools and IHG Shelter in a Storm, the IHG Foundation is a charitable foundation that funds community projects with lasting impact. In China, the IHG Foundation is run in strategic partnership with the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and focuses on four key areas: helping communities develop hospitality skills, providing support for those impacted by disasters, facilitating local community investments and protecting the environment.

Since its global launch in February 2016, the IHG Foundation has made 16 grants for 13 organizations around the world and a total of 9 reactive grants to support disaster relief across the globe. In China, the IHG Foundation has supported the Sichuan Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to fund a project providing hospitality training to 200 single mothers and unemployed women from low-income communities in Chengdu. The IHG Foundation also provided disaster relief after the tornado in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, and flooding across China this year.