Since the firm's Managing Partner, Paul Phillips, announced the firm’s $100,000 challenge grant to the Holland & Hart Foundation, each H&H office has identified and is making progress implementing a special project to help celebrate the Firm’s 60th Anniversary. 

As Paul described, the purpose of that grant is to “bring us together around service to our communities. . .to honor our past and live up to our principles.”  Below are the guidelines circulated by the Foundation Board, used by the offices in identifying their projects.

1.  100% Participation.  Consistent with the Foundation’s goal of encouraging personal involvement, the project should seek 100% involvement from all of those in the office, each contributing what they can.  Our hope is that every member of the Holland & Hart family will see their way clear to committing at least one hour – 60 minutes (one for each year) – to the project the office picks. 

2.  Teamwork.  The project should seek to involve everyone in the office in the project, working together. 

3.  The Money Follows Our Volunteers.  The projects should be chosen to fit within the involving volunteer activity that is the Foundation's mission.  Each of our offices generally has raised the money needed for its volunteer projects, by everything from book sales to bake sales to silent auctions.  In other words, the worthiness and merit of the volunteer activity should drive the project, not a simple “pass-through” of funds to a worthy organization. 

4.  A "Once-in-a Decade,” Landmark Contribution.  The Board encourages each office, through personal involvement, and, if necessary, through additions to the funding that can be provided by the firm’s grant, to make its project one of lasting significance to the community, one that the whole office and firm can proud of.

5.  Firm-Wide, Shared or Common Purpose.  The Board would like, where possible, for the 60th projects to have at least a shared set of common purposes that we can all feel a part of and jointly support through the firm’s funding.  The Board is asking each office to do its best to have its project address the important needs of education, hunger or homelessness, with an emphasis on the needs of children.   

Using the above guidelines, each office identified a project, garnered the support of the office personnel, and received seed money. 

Use the menu to the left for more information on the various office projects chosen.