Over eight years, Hilton and the Hilton Global Foundation have partnered with Aurora Foxes - a catering college and training hotel for young adults with learning disabilities. The overall aim of Aurora Foxes is to equip these young adults with life and employability skills they need to be ‘Work Ready’ and ‘Life Ready.’ Through a grant from the Hilton Global Foundation, in April 2022, Aurora Foxes launched the Flying Fox food truck, a mobile catering truck which aims to broaden the skills of the students giving them hands-on experience with outdoor and off-site service and food preparation, hygiene, and storage as well as carry the Aurora Foxes name further. To date, Hilton has hosted over 30 work placements, currently employs 10 Foxes graduates in 8 hotels, and has provided 80+ learning and career growth opportunities for students through the Flying Fox food truck.

Over eight years, Hilton and the Hilton Global Foundation have partnered with Aurora Foxes - a catering college and training hotel for young adults with learning disabilities. The overall aim of Aurora Foxes is to equip these young adults with life and employability skills they need to be ‘Work Ready,’ and ‘Life Ready.’ Through a grant from the Hilton Global Foundation, in April 2022, Aurora Foxes launched the Flying Fox food truck, a mobile catering truck which aims to broaden the skills of the students giving them hands-on experience with outdoor and off-site service and food preparation, hygiene and storage as well as carry the Aurora Foxes name further. To date, Hilton has hosted over 30 work placements, currently employs 10 Foxes graduates in 8 hotels, and has provided 80+ learning and career growth opportunities for students through the Flying Fox food truck.

Employability skills for young people with disabilities

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Hilton operates in areas where the risk of disaster or other catastrophic losses exist. In 2022, Hilton communities were devastated by Hurricane Ian and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Hilton is deeply committed to supporting communities in times of hardship and, in the aftermath of both crises, the Hilton Global Foundation partnered with World Central Kitchen and Project HOPE to provide hot meals and emergency support to those in need.

Responding in times of crisis

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World Central Kitchen

The Hilton Global Foundation partnered with Clean the World Foundation to support the operations of a Mobile Hygiene Unit (MHU) that provides showers and other wraparound services to individuals experiencing homelessness in Orange County, FL. The MHU operates 4.5 days a week with at least 5-6 hours of shower services a day. Additionally, the MHU is available to support victims of disaster in Florida. In the Fall of 2022, Hurricane Ian displaced many individuals across the state, the MHU was deployed to Hertz Arena to provide shower services to those seeking shelter there because of the storm

Providing showers to the unhoused community in Orange County

Clean the World Foundation - Hilton Global Foundation

Clean the World Foundation

Over the course of the last three years, Hilton Global Foundation and the International Youth Foundation (IYF) launched and continually increased access to Passport to Success (PTS) Concierge, an eight-module hospitality training course. This course teaches key skills to succeed in the industry, identifies the pathways most suitable to one’s attributes and skills, and provides central life skills in hospitality and tourism. The course was developed to reach a broad audience, particularly young people in countries where there are larger gaps to success and career opportunities. The modules are available in five languages with mobile phone capabilities even in lower bandwidth environments.