Leadership in the community is an integral part of our lawyers' professional lives. Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell believes that active involvement in the community makes us better lawyers and better equipped to understand the challenges that our clients face in tackling complex problems in public settings. The firm considers community, civic and charitable leadership indispensable to developing effective lawyers and counselors.

Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell lawyers are active members and leaders in our community. The firm encourages all our lawyers to play leadership roles in charitable and community organizations that are both related and unrelated to our firm’s practice areas. Our lawyers have served as Board members, pro bono legal counsel and informal advisors to a wide range of civic, community, religious, advocacy, charitable, municipal advisory and cultural organizations. These are not only local institutions in the cities in which we have offices but often have regional, state, national and international reach.

Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell was awarded the 2009 and 2010 Legal Aid Foundation Associates Campaign Award as Champions of Justice for having the highest firm per capita gift to the Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado. Every one of the Firm's Denver associates participated in the campaign.

Listed below are some of the organizations in which our lawyers have occupied leadership positions in recent years. Please contact the individual lawyer for more information on any organization listed below.

Cameroon Development Fund - www.cameroondevelopmentfund.org (John Putnam)
Colorado Center for Law and Policy - www.cclponline.org (Lisa Reynolds)
Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation - www.cihadf.org (Steve Kaplan)
Colorado Preservation, Inc. - www.coloradopreservation.org
(Sarah Rockwell)
Denver Civic Ventures - www.downtowndenver.com (Sarah Rockwell)
Downtown Denver Partnership Management Committee - www.downtowndenver.com (Sarah Rockwell)
Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. - www.neighborhoodlink.com (David Spector)
Industrial Areas Foundations Affiliates - www.industrialareasfoundation.org
(Thomas Devine)
Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver - www.mcartdenver.org (Peter Kirsch)
Musical Theater Center - www.musicaltheater.org (Charles Spitulnik)
Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement - www.stcharleschurch.org (Thomas Devine)

Businesses United for Denver Public Schools (Polly Jessen)
Denver Public Schools - www.dpsk12.org (Polly Jessen, Peter Kirsch)
Denver Public Schools Foundation - www.dpsfoundation.org (Steve Kaplan)
FrontRange Earth Force - www.earthforce.org (Lori Potter)
Mile High Montessori Early Learning Centers - www.milehighmontessori.org (Sarah Rockwell)
Oberlin College - www.oberlin.edu (Peter Kirsch, Charles Spitulnik)
Partners for Rural Improvement and Development in Ethiopia - www.pride-ethiopia.org (John Putnam)
Waldorf School of Washington - www.washingtonwaldorf.org (Charles Spitulnik, Allison Fultz)
Yale University Alumni Schools Committee - www.yale.edu/asc (Catherine van Heuven)

City of Boulder Environmental Advisory Board - www.bouldercolorado.gov (John Putnam)
City of Boulder Open Space Board - www.bouldercolorado.gov (John Putnam)
Denver Water Citizens Advisory Committee - www.denverwater.org (David Spector)
Lowry Redevelopment Authority - www.lowry.org (Sarah Rockwell)
Montgomery County Maryland Board of Appeals - www.mcgov.org (Allison Fultz)
Regional Air Quality Council - www.racq.org (Transportation Pricing Committee Chair - John Putnam)

Bluff Lake Nature Center - www.blufflakenaturecenter.org (Dan Reimer)
Center for Resource Conservation - www.conservationcenter.org (Polly Jessen) Colorado Conservation Voters - www.coloradoconservationvoters.org (Peter Kirsch)
River Network - www.rivernetwork.org (Peter Kirsch)
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado - www.voc.org (Sarah Rockwell, Peter Kirsch)

Airports Council International - North America (Environmental Steering Committee) -
www.aci-na.aero (John Putnam)
American Planning Association, Colorado Chapter - www.apacolorado.org (Peter Kirsch, Sarah Rockwell)
American Public Transportation Association - www.apta.com (Charles Spitulnik)
Colorado Lawyers Committee - www.coloradolawyerscommittee.org (John Putnam, Brooke McKinley, Catherine van Heuven)
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute - www.law.du.edu (Sarah Rockwell)
Transportation Research Board (committee on Environmental Effects of Aviation; Aviation and Climate Change Committee) - www.trb.org (John Putnam)

The firm has been recognized by a number of organizations for our work in the community. We are especially proud when our colleagues recognize the value of our contributions to the community. Among recent awards and recognition of firm lawyers, are recognitions from the following organizations:

Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado
Denver Public Schools
Rocky Mountain Food Bank
American Planning Association (Colorado)
American Rivers, Inc.

The firm has established a charitable giving program in which the firm makes contributions to organizations that have been important in the lives of our staff and lawyers. Any firm staff or lawyer can nominate a deserving organization; the firm’s charitable giving budget is allocated by a committee made up of partners, associates and staff. Listed below are links to the websites of some of the organizations to which Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell has made charitable contributions in recent years:

Bike Denver, Denver, CO - www.bikedenver.org

Capital Area Food Bank, Washington, DC - www.capitalareafoodbank.org

Center for Resource Conservation - www.conservationcenter.org

Denver Firefighters Burn Foundation, Denver, CO - ffbf.mosaicglobe.com

Denver's Road Home, Denver, CO - http://www.denversroadhome.org

Food Bank for New York City, New York, NY - www.foodbanknyc.org

Food Bank of the Rockies, Denver, CO - http://www.foodbankrockies.org

Musical Theater Center, Rockville, MD - www.musicaltheatercenter.org

National Association of the Mentally Ill, Lone Tree, CO - www.nami.org

New Hope Housing, Alexandria, VA - www.newhopehousing.org

Summer Scholars, Denver, CO - www.summerscholars.org

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, Denver, CO - www.voc.org