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R&C Lawyers Volunteer at Childcare Learning Center
In honor of R&C's 160th Anniversary, R&C lawyer, Pamela Elkow, organized four groups of volunteers from the firm's Stamford office to read to the children at the Childcare Learning Center in Stamford.
Teaching Youth to Build Businesses
Robinson & Cole Partner David Bogan serves as a volunteer coach for The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship summer bizcamp and throughout the academic year to help teach entrepreneurship to low-income students, ages 11-18, to assist them in becoming economically productive members of society by improving their academic, business, technology and life skills.
SUCCESS Program Helps Prep Students
Led by the efforts of partner Brian Moran, Robinson & Cole founded The SUCCESS Foundation to help bridge the minority academic achievement gap in our area. SUCCESS (Students Undertaking College Career Enhancing Study Skills) operates an intensive 3-week summer study program for low-income students from Bridgeport, Norwalk and Stamford entering the 10th grade. The program gives the students a meaningful on-campus college experience along with instruction on subjects like time management, how to take notes, how to study, and effective communications skills. More than 80 companies in Connecticut and New York provided corporate funding of this project, which debuted last summer at Sacred Heart University with an inaugural class of 60 students.
Children's Bank/Children's Connection
Attorneys and staff participate annually in the Children's Bank/Children's Connection project that provides holiday and special occasion gifts for over 1,500 abused and neglected children throughout Fairfield County. Since its inception in 1980, this project has enabled social workers to deliver individually selected gifts to hundreds of children in need.
World Trade Center Disaster Relief Hotlines
Robinson & Cole associates Diane Bucci, Katherine Glynn, Ross Katz, Robin Keller, Meredith Leff, Christopher Major, and Regina Sweeney and paralegals Susan Gleason and Patricia Romanello joined other lawyers in staffing a disaster relief legal hotline over several weeks, fielding calls from all over the country, and remain available for continuing referrals of the many legal questions families have as a result of the events of September 11.
Making Strides against Breast Cancer
Our Stamford office joined a team of walkers and raised over $1,000 for Making Strides against Breast Cancer.
American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
Robinson & Cole and its employees contributed more than $38,000 to the Red Cross, including a matching contribution by the firm, to help those affected by the September 11 attacks.
Regional Bar Association's Valentine's Day Food Drive and Fall and Spring Clothing Drives
Attorneys in the Metro New York offices participate in the Regional Bar Association's Valentine's Day Food Drive and its Fall and Spring Clothing Drives, which provide suits, work clothes, and briefcases so that needy people can be well dressed for employment interviews. Additionally, a Metro New York team participates in the Regional Bar Association's Bennett Cancer Walk.
Greenville Fire Department Volunteer
A partner in our New York office is a volunteer firefighter and a Fire Commissioner in the Greenville (NY) Fire Department.
The Midnight Run
Twice a year for a program called The Midnight Run, a partner in our Stamford office and other adults rent a truck and drive a group of teenagers to New York City at about 10 p.m. and distribute bag lunch-type food, soup, and coffee, plus large quantities of clothing and blankets etc to the homeless. They are given locations by The Midnight Run organization, located in Tarrytown, New York, to stop around Manhattan where the homeless congregate for the night. It is a formative experience for suburban teenagers to actually talk with and serve people who are as individual as they are.
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