Accountability to Community Service

At Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, our dedication to the nonprofit community is professional …and personal. We participate in various service and volunteer activities throughout the year to support clients and the community. See below for a list of activities that demonstrate the importance of lending a hand and what Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman believes is most important.

While community service participation helps us reaffirm our dedication to the Washington-area nonprofit sector, it also offers us an opportunity to recognize first-hand the impact of our work, recognize its value, and come together to make things better than they were yesterday.

Jeans for a Good Cause: Outreach with Style

Every Monday, our employees step into nonprofit offices locally and around the world and see what they accomplish. It is only fitting that every Friday employees make a donation to Jeans for a Good Cause to benefit local nonprofits.  The Jeans for a Good Cause program was started in 2006 to present staff with the ability to donate to their choice of nonprofits.  Since its inception, the program has raised more than $4,500 for at least five local nonprofits.

Individual employees have taken their love for philanthropy to the next level by hosting happy hours and participating in fundraising walks. Last October, Audit Supervisor Sara Kennedy and Auditor Tatsiana Maltsava raised over $4,600 walking in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. Part of that donation - $569 - came from a successful happy hour that co-workers supported. This year, Tax Administration Supervisor Tammie McRoy participated in a one-day walk in support of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Auditor Miriah Green recently hosted a happy hour to raise additional funds for the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk. The event raised $274.

Haiti Relief Donations, Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk and C&O Canal Clean Up (2010)

To help Haiti recover from its devastating earthquake, 38 employees donated to Haitian relief efforts. The firm generously agreed to match employees' personal donations. In sum, the Lutheran World Relief, American Jewish World Service, Action Against Hunger and Mercy Corps received $4,000 from our firm.

Twenty-five employees participated in The Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk on October 2, 2010. In total, employees and the firm donated $6,400 to the Lazarus Foundation. On October 23, 13 volunteers cleaned up the C&O Canal National Historical Park.

Sister Cities International and American Heart Association:
Taking Steps in the Right Direction (2009) Washington, DC

Volunteers helped Sister Cities International staff members prepare for the 5K for World Peace by registering participants and hosting the Food and Water station on October 24, 2009.

	Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman donated $100 for every walker. On Saturday, November 14, 2009, more than twenty employees walked 2.9 miles on the National Mall for the Start! Heart Walk.

Food For Thought: Manna and the National Center for Children and Families (2007-2008)

In 2007, GRF volunteers worked with Manna Food stocking shelves and boxing up items. In July 2008, fifteen volunteers registered and served food and beverages during AT&T's National Golf Championship. Donations benefited the National Center for Children and Families.

Higgins Family Cemetery: Bringing “Life” to a Local Cemetery (2006)
Rockville, MD

Rockville’s historic Higgins Family Cemetery has been successfully landscaped and restored following many years of neglect. As a part of Montgomery County’s annual volunteer day event, Gelman, Rosenberg and Freedman pitched in for the cemetery’s clean-up and restoration. The firm’s involvement paid off and helped to return a historical feel to the site.

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Hearts and Homes: Rebuilding Homes for Youth (2004, 2005)
Poolesville, MD

A team of Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman employees, friends and family helps clean up the grounds at a home for underprivileged children in Poolesville, MD for Hearts and Homes for Youth.

We lent a hand helping to clean up the grounds at a home for underprivileged children in Poolesville, MD. Hearts and Homes for Youth helps troubled children and youth who are abused, neglected, or runaways become independent, productive adults. The organization runs four group homes for at-risk youth who need therapeutic and rehabilitative services. GRF volunteered for the organization, two years in a row, to make sure these children have a safe and clean environment in which to live, work and play.

Croydon Creek: Restoring Natural Woodland (2003)
Rockville, MD

We are also proud of our work helping to restore natural woodlands in the wake of Hurricane Isabel (2003). Following the ruinous effects of Hurricane Isabel in the Washington metropolitan region, a team of GRF workers converged at the Croydon Creek Nature Center in Rockville, MD to clean up from some of the local hiking trails. We filled dozens of garbage bags with downed limbs and trash to create a natural environment we hope resembled the one at the Center before the hurricane blew through.