Michelle A. Shell, MCCA Chairman and
James E. Rooney, MCCA Executive Director

A CULTURE OF CARING

The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority views its mission as twofold – hosting large events that create economic impact for the city and the Commonwealth, while having our work mirror and enhance the civic life of the communities we serve. As a state authority, it’s our responsibility. It’s also a part of our success strategy. Ultimately, our goal is to lead the way among state agencies and within the meeting and convention industry in areas such as community giving, environmental respon-sibility, support of the arts, and the fostering of diversity – both within our organization and within the events we attract to Boston and Springfield.

This fall, the MCCA released its first MCCA Corporate Social Responsibility Report, a document that touts our work while setting benchmarks that will allow us to enhance and better target this outreach.

From supplier diversity to the diversity of our staff; from making New England’s largest building one of its greenest, to having our staff donate gifts and prepare meals for the Ronald McDonald House in Springfield, our goal is to not only benefit the state through the business we create, but to extend that benefit to families and com-munities beyond our walls.

At the end of this summer, with both the National Urban League and Blacks in Government holding their national conferences in Boston for the first time in decades, we achieved a major goal of our corporate social responsibility program. Our facilities are Boston’s front door to an international audience that is meeting and doing business in America’s most historic city. And when attendees walk though that front door, we want them to see not only a world-class facility, but the faces and facets of the communities we serve. We want them to see Massachusetts.

The same goes for the events we host. When the meetings and conventions that come through our front door are rich in diversity and international scope, we not only enhance our image as a worldly meeting place, but help Boston and the Commonwealth affirm their place on the world’s stage.

We don’t seek limelight for these efforts. We don’t want a pat on the back. It’s just what we do, and we hope in the future, it’s what we continue to do.

View the corporate social responsibility report at http://bit.ly/MCCA_CSR