Since our inception over 60 years ago, Farella Braun + Martel has participated actively in our local communities. The founding partners led by example and are well known for their extensive contributions to the bar and nonprofit organizations. This commitment continues unabated today.
Community success requires involvement with and sponsorship of organizations that do good for others. As a firm, we sponsor, through direct financial contributions, organizations ranging from legal service providers to entities involved with education, the environment, and the arts.
Annual firmwide community service activities include:
- Rebuilding Together San Francisco – In the fall, Farella lawyers, staff, family, and friends come together to perform some much-needed renovations to low-income family homes, schools, and nonprofit centers.
- BASF’s Head Start Holiday Gift Program – Each year the firm “adopts” a classroom and provides gift cards to bring holiday joy to vulnerable, low-income families in need in San Francisco.
- BASF’s Food From the Bar Campaign – Every year our Food From the Bar committee of lawyers and staff creates fun activities within the firm that provide financial and other support for the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.
- Chapter One Online Tutoring Literacy Program – For several years, Farella lawyers and staff have participated in Chapter One’s “30 minutes per week” online reading program for first graders in local public schools.
We dedicated our 50th Anniversary to giving back to the community. The year-long program included $500,000 in direct gifts and a volunteer challenge to everyone at the firm. By year-end, more than 5,000 hours had been volunteered at more than 75 nonprofit organizations.
