Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman - Our Service to the Community

About Us : Our Service to the Community

Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman: Serving the Community

At Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, we perform more than just accounting services. Our dedication to the nonprofit community is professional…and personal. We participate in various forms of service and volunteer activities throughout the year to support our clients and the community. Most significantly, each year in late October, we participate in the Montgomery County Volunteer Center’s annual Volunteer Day.

We are proud of the impact we’ve had helping to restore natural woodlands in the wake of Hurricane Isabel (2003) and helping to clean up the grounds at a home for underprivileged children in Poolesville, MD. In both 2004 and 2005, GRF assisted Hearts and Homes for Youth, a nonprofit organization on whose Board of Directors GRF partner Jerry Rosenberg has served since 2001. The founders of this organization were provided a grant from the Montgomery County Council to open a boy’s residential group home. The home was built to help troubled children and youth who are abused, neglected, or runaways become independent, productive adults. A GRF team of employees, friends and family (pictured above) came out two years in a row to make sure these kids had a safe and clean environment to live, work and play in.

And while our 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 with like-minded friends who want to make things a little better than they were yesterday.

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

Rockville’s historical Higgins Family Cemetery has been successfully landscaped and restored following several 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. Although we found several unusual items sticking out of the ground, some could not be recovered, even after determined digging. Nevertheless, the firm’s involvement paid off and helped to return a historical feel to the site.

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Croydon Creek: Restoring Natural Woodlands
Rockville, MD

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 away detritus 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.

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Hearts and Homes: Rebuilding Homes for Youth
Poolesville, MD

GRF founding vice president Jerry Rosenberg sits on the Board of Directors of Hearts and Homes for Youth, a Silver Spring, MD-based nonprofit organization dedicated to helping troubled youths who are abused, neglected or runaways. HHY provides educational, residential, independent living and mental health programs to a culturally diverse client population to assist in their development as independent, productive adults.

In 2004 and 2005, GRF took advantage of the Montgomery County Volunteer Center’s Volunteer Day to help restore the residence and grounds of a Poolesville, MD residential center for troubled youths, which is administered by Hearts and Homes for Youth. Click on the photos below to see our team in action.

Click on the links below to view photos from Hearts and Homes:

2004 Photos (links to new page)
2005 Photos (links to new page)