BELLEVUE, Washington—Staypineapple introduced a collaboration with Procure Influence. This partnership grows Staypineapple’s dedication to uplifting communities and advancing the hospitality trade and company’ experiences by means of intentional sourcing.
The Procure Influence market has hundreds of merchandise made in the US throughout hospitality classes, together with grab-and-go snacks, meals and beverage, tub and spa merchandise, retail, furnishings, artwork, VIP facilities, and extra. Every authorised vendor within the Procure Influence market employs people with boundaries to work, creating jobs and supportive companies that assist weak populations construct a future, together with resettled refugees, veterans, people with disabilities, and individuals who have skilled psychological well being challenges, poverty, dependancy, incarceration, intercourse trafficking and extra.
Procure Influence tracks every transaction’s affect on its platform by calculating the variety of shift hours of labor created by every buy, permitting hospitality firms to report on their affect objectives and measure their progress.
With this dedication, Staypineapple joins the Dignity of Work Pledge, an initiative Procure Influence and the American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) launched earlier this yr to create 100,000 hours of paid employment for ignored populations.
“Our dedication to the individuals round us is on the coronary heart of every thing we do,” mentioned Dina Belon, president of Staypineapple. “We’re devoted to empowering girls and veterans and providing alternatives that uplift and honor their distinctive contributions. Collectively, we’re shaping an trade that not solely welcomes the world however improves it.”
Staypineapple is presently providing snack merchandise at its motels from a group of companies together with Canine Tag Bakery, which equips veterans with instruments to rediscover their goal after serving the nation and re-enter their communities with confidence and assist, and Girls’s Bean Mission, which hires girls experiencing persistent unemployment to assist break down the boundaries they face.
Staypineapple will proceed to work with Procure Influence to develop on the obtainable merchandise supplied, additional supporting companies and their efforts to supply alternatives to underserved and underrepresented members of the group.
“By embracing accountable sourcing, Staypineapple is displaying us that doing good could be simply as daring and thrilling as their model,” mentioned Jen Collins, co-founder and president of Procure Influence. “As a frontrunner in sustainability and rising boutique lodge model, we’re excited to accomplice with them to develop their affect by means of the merchandise they procure.”
