Why & How Hope Caldwell of KLH Group Is Helping To Change Our World

As a part of our series about leaders who are using their social media platform to make a significant social impact, we had the pleasure of interviewing Hope Caldwell.

Podcast: Creating Your Own Career Path with Hope Caldwell '03

Hope joined Johnson and Wales University students at this year’s Hospitality Summit on the Providence campus, where she shared her insights on building a successful company through community, collaboration, and meaningful social impact. Listen for an energizing chat with this dynamic alum about following our passions.

Podcast: The Prosper Project

Is it possible to create a business that incorporates a purpose into a seemingly unrelated business? Hope tells her incredible story of building a business and incorporating social impact in her luxury events. She reveals the beautiful story behind the KLH Group name. She explains how her event business survived a pandemic and where her company is today.

IMEX America attendees join community effort in clubhouse construction

There are few things more meaningful than supporting a sick child and bringing smiles to young faces. During the three days of IMEX America, the KLH Group invited attendees to a Clubhouse Build™, creating a special play space for Luna, a local Vegas child with paediatric cancer.

2020 South Carolina women in business

KLH Group Founder and Principal, Hope Caldwell, was not only selected as one of South Carolina’s Women in Business by Greenville Business Magazine, Columbia Business Monthly, and Charleston Business Magazine but she also made the cover!

The annual program recognizes women across the state in various industries who have achieved professional success and an exemplary record of service — to both their company and community.  

Amid pandemic, S.C. Co-op partners with KLH group to rally around co-worker with sick child

“Ashley Edens, our board assistant, showed me a promotional video about a program where you build playhouses for children with cancer and said maybe it was something we could do for Beckham,” said Mobley. “It looked great. She got approval from our CEO [Dwayne Cartwright] . I also told her, ‘Oh, by the way, put me down to help.’”   

KLH Group receives 2020 entrepreneur of impact award

The KLH Group is honored to be recognized as a  2020 Entrepreneur of Impact by ​HatchTribe​, an organization that helps women build powerful,  purposeful and profitable businesses.    

Berkeley electric employees build clubhouse for local boy with form of cancer

Channel 2 coverage of a Beckham Browns clubhouse build!

Entrepreneur of impact award: Hope Caldwell

We're delighted to introduce you to Entrepreneur of Impact Award winner Hope Caldwell of KLH Group. She is one of the amazing, everyday entrepreneur heroes doing good things for the world & her community during the COVID pandemic. We hope you're just as inspired by her story as we are!

KLH launches new service

Like many business owners in the hospitality industry, Hope Caldwell has had some time on her hands. Time to develop her vision for how KLH Group can create a large and lasting impact. Caldwell launched Mkakati, the fourth pillar of a business that already included destination management, event design and social impact events. With the introduction of the Mkakati pillar Caldwell plans to work with companies to identify opportunities to integrate purpose throughout the year. Then KLH Group will work with the company to create a shared story line that becomes the thread that ties all events together.

Bringing your soul values into the workplace: The ruby hour with Hope Caldwell

Have you ever had that moment where you're stuffing your face with Nutella and Ritz crackers during a His Dark Materials binge-fest, and then one of those horrific starving children in Africa commercials comes on? Read on if so :)

Conference attendees mentor budding entrepreneurs by casey gale

Newell Brands wanted the CSR project that would be part of its 2019 Marketing & Enterprise Leadership Summit program, held in Hollywood, Florida, March 12–15, to check off a few boxes. Newell, parent company of such brands as Rubbermaid, Sharpie, and Yankee Candle, had two requirements that are standard among CSR activities: The initiative needed to include a teamwork component so that attendees could work together and learn about one another, and it had to give back to the local community. But the company also wanted whatever project was chosen to include face-to-face interaction between its employees and those on the receiving end of their efforts.

100 connections by Matt Hampton

We’ve all heard it, our lives are stories. Each day is a new chapter, a new opportunity, whatever phrase you want to put in here. It holds a great deal of truth, and it often feels good to know you have a story uniquely your own. But there comes  a time when you have to let go of those stories, to see them for what they are, moments in the past, but not who you are. Hope Caldwell has the most amazing eyes, not in the sense of their color or their shape, but in the way that they see your stories, recognize them, but know they aren’t you. She has many of her own. Tales of triumph, of tragedy, of smiles, cries, and faith that would fill a thousand books, but they don’t do her justice.

Clubhouses for children with cancer. Building a place to dream, imagine and play

Written by Tonya McGue

Each year, the parents of approximately 15,600 kids will hear the words “Your child has cancer, “ according to CURESEARCH for children’s cancer. Across all ages, ethnic groups and socioeconomocis, this disease remains the No. 1 cause of death by disease in children.

One local company is creating a ray of sunshine in the lives of children with cancer. For the past three years, The KLH Group has brought the joy of participating in building a personalized clubhouse to over 20 children in the Lowcountry who become “the star” for the day.

KLH Group adds social impact to the luxury event market

Just when luxury corporate events seem to have exhausted every imaginable criteria: memorable, exciting, provocative and even outrageous, one event production company has added a new standard, impactful. The KLH Group, headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, specializes in pairing social impact service projects with corporate objectives and is changing the industry of upscale event planning.

ALHI unites industry with fourth annual “leaders meeting leaders” program

"This year’s IFLE featured a CSR team-building and lunch event partnering with Doors to Dream, a local nonprofit in Charleston founded by Hope Caldwell (president of KLH Group) that works with historically underserved youth. Participants had the opportunity to build clubhouses with children in the program while engaging their imagination," Balding says.