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Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell lawyers are active members and leaders in our communities. The firm encourages 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 institutions are not only local to the cities in which we have offices but often have regional, state, national and international reach.

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.

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.

Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation www.cihadf.org (Steve Kaplan)
Colorado Preservation, Inc. www.coloradopreservation.org (Sarah Rockwell)
Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver www.mcartdenver.org (Peter Kirsch)
Musical Theater Center www.musicaltheater.org (Charles Spitulnik)
Denver Civic Ventures www.downtowndenver.com (Sarah Rockwell)
Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. www.neighborhoodlink.com (David Spector)
Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement www.stcharleschurch.org (Thomas Devine)
Industrial Areas Foundations Affiliates www.industrialareasfoundation.org (Thomas Devine)

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

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

Bluff Lake Nature Center www.blufflakenaturecenter.org (Dan Reimer)
Colorado Conservation Voters www.coloradoconservationvoters.org (Peter Kirsch)
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado www.voc.org (Sarah Rockwell, Peter Kirsch)

American Planning Association, Colorado Chapter www.apacolorado.org (Peter Kirsch, Sarah Rockwell)
Colorado Lawyers Committee www.coloradolawyerscommittee.org (John Putnam, Brooke McKinley)
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute www.law.du.edu (Sarah Rockwell)

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:

Denver Public Schools
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 committee. Listed below are links to the websites of some of the organizations to which Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell has made charitable contributions in recent years:

High Country Foundation (publisher of High Country News), Paonia CO www.hcn.org
Partners for Rural Improvement and Development in Ethiopia, Boulder CO www.pride-ethiopia.org
Capital Area Food Bank, Washington, DC www.capitalareafoodbank.org
Mile High Montessori; Denver, CO www.milehighmontessori.org
cityWILD, Denver, CO www.citywild.org
Colorado Correctional Industries K-9 program www.coloradoci.com
New Hope Housing, Fairfax, VA www.newhopehousing.org
Musical Theater Center, Rockville, MD www.musicaltheatercenter.org
Trips for Kids Metro DC, Washington, DC www.tfkmetrodc.org
Journeys Within Our Community www.journeyswithinourcommunity.org
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America www.ccfa.org
Bluff Lake Nature Center, Denver, CO www.blufflakenaturecenter.org
Front Range Earth Force, Denver, CO www.earthforce.org