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LEGAL COMMUNITY CONTINUES ITS TRADITION OF GIVING
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or a second consecutive year, the Montgomery Bar Association and Montgomery Bar Foundation joined in the nationwide campaign to promote Giving Tuesday (#GivingTuesday), a national day of giving, observed on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014. Since members of our Bar have a longstanding tradition of giving back to the community, the concept of promoting a day dedicated to charitable giving at the start of the holiday giving season seemed natural for leadership of both organizations. As Executive Director Nancy R. Paul explains, “You’d be hard pressed to find a member of ours who doesn’t volunteer time to a local non-profit, serve time on a board, coach little league or contribute pro bono hours to organizations like MCAP, Mission Kids, Legal Aid, or any number of other charitable causes throughout the year.” Knowing how passionate members of our legal community tend to be about the various causes they support, the Montgomery Bar Association and Bar Foundation again elected not to raise funds for any one specific project, charity or cause, but rather to promote and remind those within a generous earshot to embrace Giving Tuesday and expand upon our legal community’s inherent culture of giving. Both organizations did so by reminding their respective community members, partners and the community-at-large to support this national day of giving SIDEBAR
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in the following ways: • by helping to spread the word to friends, family and colleagues; • by making a donation, volunteering time, or raising awareness for their favorite charity; • by taking time to learn about a cause in the community to align with and get behind. For those who missed the opportunity to get behind our second annual Giving Tuesday campaign, we’ll remind you that it’s never too late for charitable giving, or to volunteer time to your favorite cause. For those who haven’t found a cause to align with and get behind, please put some time aside to learn about your Montgomery Bar Foundation. It’s the perfect cause for members of our legal community who believe even our most vulnerable neighbors deserve equal access to justice, and care enough to act locally.
Here are just some of the ways that our members, firms and others in our legal community observed Giving Tuesday or otherwised helped take our legal community’s culture of giving to new heights this past the holiday season:
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