Impact Experiences offers on-property activities that can be incorporated into the conference agenda during lunch breaks, receptions, and coffee breaks, including:

• Partnering with the hotel’s culinary team to prepare the ingredients for a regionally adapted dish for donation to a local hunger relief organization.
• Assembling school supplies and art materials in backpacks for donation to students whose academic success is threatened by poverty.
• Collaborating in teams to assemble emergency preparedness kits for shipping to a disaster relief facility or community organization.
• Designing and creating greetings and birthday cards for children in a local pediatric healthcare facility or children’s organization.
• Impact Hour is a platform for leaders from The Ritz-Carlton Community Footprints partner organizations to showcase how they are successfully addressing social and environmental issues.
• Additionally, Signature Impact Experiences invite our group guests to take part in an off-site volunteer activity, unique to the destination.

The nation’s capital is a historical city of grand monuments and beautiful expanses of parkland — and the National Park Service (NPS) is charged with protecting these beloved treasures. Group guests can join an NPS representative to learn about the city’s inspiring history and help beautify the landscape, remove invasive plants and preserve local species.

Please contact your meetings and special events professional for details on how Impact Experiences can be matched to your group.

Meetings at The Ritz-Carlton are carefully designed to create an unparalleled guest experience while protecting our natural resources. Together with our property-based Ritz-Carlton Environmental Action Conservation Teams (REACT) you and your attendees can support our efforts to reduce our environmental imprint and make a meaningful difference. Within our hotels, we reduce energy and water usage, offer a linen and terry reuse program, and utilize environmentally preferable cleaning products. Our meeting venues support a sustainable future by offering recycled paper products and pens, water service options, organic and local food and sustainable seafood options. The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. is pleased to include these additional environmentally responsible meeting practices for you and your attendees to further complement our legendary service: 

• Rainforest Alliance certified coffee 
• Natura® water filtration systems in lieu of bottled water 
• VolunTeaming options for your group’s free time 
• Donation of surplus unused prepared foods, as regulations permit 
• Unused promotional products and event supplies donated to local community partners 
• Donation or reuse of event or wedding florals to local community partners 
• Linenless Buffet Tables
• 100% Paperless billing 
• Composting of all food waste 
• Public space and guest room recycling 
• LED and CFL lighting throughout the hotel