Community

November 14, 2024 

On World Refugee Day 2024, we marked the first anniversary of our global partnership with the International Rescue Committee ('IRC'). Founded in 1933, the IRC’s mission is to ‘help people affected by humanitarian crises to survive, recover and gain control over their future.’ We provide the IRC with financial and pro bono support to help ensure its focus can remain on supporting those most in need across the 40+ countries where the IRC works with its local partners. We are pleased to report that since the inception of our global partnership, we have recorded over 2,000 hours on more than 40 different pro bono matters for the IRC involving colleagues from across the globe and multiple jurisdictions. 

November 14, 2024 

Each year, our offices participate in the annual Fall Giving campaign, a long-standing firm tradition. We come together for a two-week fundraising sprint to raise money for local nonprofit partners and charities our people care about most.

For the past few years, we have kicked off our campaign with the Great Giveback Game Show in partnership with Impact 4 Good, During the kickoff trivia event, offices across the firm compete against each other for a chance to win levels of prize donations to the winning office’s featured charity. Additionally, each individual who participates in the kickoff event is seeded funds into their personal giving account on Eversheds Sutherland Spark to make a donation to any charity of their choice.

During our 2024 Fall Giving campaign, we raised an incredible $205,000 while coming together in our local offices for community service events to support local our local charities. A sincere thanks to all our people for their generosity and for participating in the campaign each year.

 

 

November 13, 2024 

We are proud to be a longstanding partner and supporter of Bread for the City for over 25 years. Bread for the City provides food, clothing, medical care and legal and social services to those in the DC community to help reduce the burden of poverty. Throughout the years, our volunteers have distributed holiday meals, assisted clients in the law clinic and through pro bono work, and tended to the rooftop garden. 

A couple of recent projects include:

Summer associates in our Washington DC office spent an afternoon volunteering at Bread for the City’s food pantry and learning more about the organization’s holistic services offered to the community, including its vital legal clinic programs. The summer associates also helped the office’s community service committee collect new and unused socks to bring along as donations to their visit with Bread for the City.

Colleagues in our Washington office had an amazing time volunteering with Bread for the City during their Holiday Helpings program. For 32 years, this program has stood as beacon of hope and support for thousands of families across Washington DC. Volunteers helped distribute a turkey/chicken, holiday fixings, and produce, ensuring families have a complete and joyous holiday meal. Thank you to Bread for the City's dedicated team and volunteers for helping bring warmth and cheer to many households this holiday season!

 

 

October 19, 2024 

A dedicated team of volunteers from the Atlanta office participated in the Habitat for Humanity: Brush with Kindness Volunteer Project, where our volunteers spent the day painting the home of a local homeowner. The Brush with Kindness program provides painting to the exterior of homes in neighborhoods where Habitat for Humanity also builds. 

 

 

August 29, 2024 

The Austin office community service committee organized a volunteering shift at the Central Texas Food Bank working to inspect, clean, sort, box and prepare donated food and non-food items to distribute to the community.

The Atlanta office committee hosted a kickoff social event and donation drive for the Midtown Assistance Center, collecting food and personal hygiene items for those in need in the community totaling 140 lbs. in donations.

We have also supported the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) through volunteering and hosting food drives. The ACFB distributes an average of 9.7 million pounds of food each month, or approximately 8 million+ meals to neighbors who are food insecure in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.   

 

 

August 19, 2024 

Colleagues in Chicago participated in a beach cleanup organized by Alliance for the Great Lakes, coming together to pick up trash and debris to protect and maintain the environment for everyone to enjoy.

 

 

August 15, 2024 

The New York office community service committee hosted a back-to-school drive supporting NYC’s foster youth through The New York Foundling! Kudos to the committee and all those in NYO who donated critical school supplies.

The Washington office community service committee also hosted a school supplies drive supporting Alexandria City Public Schools and students in need to help start off the school year right.

 

 

January 16, 2024 

In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, our Atlanta office partnered with Hands on Atlanta to honor Dr. King’s life and legacy by participating in a garden cleanup activity by weeding, planting and mulching the native plant garden. Throughout the firm, we also hosted an acts of service campaign across our offices over the MLK weekend.

 

 

November 30, 2023 

Our Chicago office hosted a community service event with members from the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Chicago to pack holiday stockings for Chicago Youth Centers (CYC). Volunteers from Eversheds Sutherland and ACC Chicago packed 800 holiday stockings with toys, games, activities and treats for deserving children in the Chicago community. Since 1956, CYC has been the place “where Possibility Lives: a trusted partner on Chicago’s South and West sides, ensuring that kids have a safe place they can go to explore, to discover, to process, and ultimately to envision a bright future that they can create for themselves.

 

 

April 22, 2023 

Volunteers from our Washington DC office celebrated Earth Day by participating in a cleanup activity in partnership with the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS). The AWS Earth Day Cleanup is its largest annual volunteer event, where volunteers go to dozens of sites around the watershed to pick up trash, serve their communities and enjoy the Anacostia River.