Manager, PMI Educational Foundation| PMIEFPa, United States
Today, we’re celebrating PMIEF’s 35th anniversary! For decades, the PMI Educational Foundation has empowered individuals and communities by bringing project management to life in classrooms, nonprofits, and youth programs around the world. As members of the PMI community, this impact happens because of you!
Whether you’ve volunteered your time, shared your skills, or simply been inspired by PMIEF’s mission to use project management for social good, you are part of the story.
Let’s celebrate the last 35 years and look forward to the future together. Share in the comments below:
-What is your hope for how project management can empower future generations?
-What excites you most about the foundation’s mission?
-Looking ahead, what part of PMIEF’s work inspires you?
Head of International Project Management Office| Deutsche TelekomPraha, Czechia
For me my main hope is that we will able to have gender balance at all the levels, C-Suite included. This does not mean to have an equal number of seats, but more to have equal access to the highest seats worldwide. I would like on the one hand to see that women that are going to come, will not experience what women in the past experienced. On the other hand, I would like to see from younger generation a respect for the past and for what women before them did in the past. Saving Changes...
As a professional educator with vast experience working in remote First Nation communities across Northwestern Ontario Canada, I hope, and I foresee a future where an average high school graduate in remote Indigenous communities (especially the fly-in communities) will have the capacity to manage community-based projects without hiring a consultant who is thousands of miles away.
There is a significant gap in capacity building among youths in indigenous First Nation communities across Canada, particularly in remote flying communities, where numerous ongoing projects lack competent local capacity to manage them effectively.
I am excited that future generations of youths have the structure in place to help them achieve their goals of becoming a PM professional and building their capacity. That means the current generation of PM at PMIEF is forward-thinking. Thinking and preparing to pass the baton to the next generation.
I am inspired by PMIEF’s work of providing volunteering opportunities for volunteering enthusiasts like me. I also love the idea of PMIEF collaborating with NGOs. I would advise that PMIEF collaborate with NGOs like Teach for Canada, Anishinaabe Aski Nation, Northern Chiefs (Keewaytinook Okimakanak Tribal Council, etc.) in Canada to reach Indigenous youth. Thank you for the awesome initiative @PMIEF Saving Changes...
Financial Management Specialist | US Peace CorpsYaounde, Centre, Cameroon
Providing us with the platform to volunteer is one great thing that's outstanding...
I hope the foundation can create platforms for community volunteers to meet Saving Changes...
Project & PMO Manager | Research & Enterprise Mentor| GFB HoldingSouth America, Brazil
It's wonderful to celebrate! It's truly important to take time to appreciate our accomplishments. In my view, PMI has gathered and organized a tremendous amount of knowledge. It's also crucial to support the community in learning how to focus on immediate needs, while progressively building capacity and increasing maturity for future demands. Additionally, and perhaps controversially, we must be careful not to get lost in the endless pursuit of knowledge, forgetting to create value from what we've already acquired. It's equally important to refine the knowledge that's available. Be careful with mind obesity!
Project Manager| AWR Development (BD) Ltd. Cox's Bazer , Bangladesh
Happy 35th, PMIEF! My hope is that project management becomes a life skill for future generations—helping them turn ideas into impact with confidence and empathy. Truly inspiring mission! Saving Changes...
Consultant| Canarys Automation LtdBangalore, Karnataka, India
For me, the real power of project management for future generations lies in confidence and agency. When young people learn how to frame a problem, break it into achievable steps, collaborate with others, and see progress unfold, they don’t just complete projects—they start believing they can shape outcomes in their own lives and communities. What excites me most about PMIEF’s mission is how it applies project management beyond corporate settings—into classrooms, nonprofits, and social initiatives where structure, clarity, and purpose can create disproportionate impact. Teaching project thinking early equips students with life skills: critical thinking, ownership, empathy, and adaptability. Looking ahead, what inspires me most is PMIEF’s focus on access and inclusion—bringing project management to youth who may not otherwise encounter these tools. When project management becomes a language for solving real-world problems, especially in underserved communities, it becomes a force for long-term social change, not just professional advancement. Saving Changes...
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