Community Outreach
Giving back to the community is a value deeply embedded in the culture of Calfee. From food banks and area schools to Habitat for Humanity and Toys 4 Tots, our community service efforts are approached with the same kind of enthusiasm we bring to our practice. Many Calfee attorneys support charities and several are service-sector leaders in various community diversity-driven projects. Below are a few of the organizations we support.
Community Programs
- Achievement Centers for Children
- Aubrey Rose Foundation
- Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland
- Catholic Charities of Southwestern Ohio
- CET
- Center of Science and Industry
- Children's Hunger Alliance
- Children's Law Center, Inc.
- Cincinnati Observatory
- Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
- City Year
- Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center
- Cleveland Law Library
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation
- Cleveland Zoological Society
- College Now Greater Cleveland
- Commercial Real Estate Women, Inc. of Cleveland
- The Council of State Governments
- Down Syndrome Association
- Downtown Cincinnati Inc.
- Goodwill
- Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services
- Habitat for Humanity
- Hamilton County Development Co., Inc. (HCDC)
- Hamilton County Planning + Development
- Harvest for Hunger
- Heartland Hospice Care
- Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation
- Jewish Federation of Cleveland
- Kids Voting USA
- Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
- Mid-Ohio Foodbank
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- The Nature Conservancy
- Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame
- Oyler School
- Pelotonia
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Saint Martin de Porres High School
- Shaw High School
- St. Rita School for the Deaf
- Stepping Stones
- The Squash Academy
- Greater Cleveland Partnership Equity & Inclusion
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- Toys for Tots
- United Way
- University Circle Inc.
- Velo Sano
- Warren County Arts and Culture Center
- Youth Opportunities Unlimited
Pro Bono
Calfee is very active in pro bono activities. We are a longtime and recurring participant in the Cleveland Legal Aid Society’s Volunteer Lawyer’s Program, including Legal Aid's Free Advice Clinics and Evening Law Clinics. In addition to these one-off pro bono advice sessions for Cleveland Legal Aid, many Calfee lawyers regularly take on responsibility for longer-lasting and varied types of projects, lawsuits, and challenges for Legal Aid clients.
Calfee's lawyers also spend time each year handling pro bono matters for the Northern District of Ohio's pro bono mission, the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's (CMBA) pro bono project, and the Bankruptcy Bypass program sponsored by CMBA; Wills for Heroes, a program that prepares free estate plans for fire, police and other first responders; and the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center.
In Columbus, Calfee attorneys have donated many hours of legal services to the Franklin Park Conservatory and the OSU Fisher Business School Business Plan Competition, providing legal services to the winners of the challenge.
In Cincinnati, Calfee attorneys actively support and donate legal services to many area nonprofits, including Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio, which engages attorney volunteers to provide nonprofits with free legal services tailored to their business needs.
"When we're called upon to help people that are less fortunate, or in the case of nonprofit entities, that don't have big budgets...to hire an attorney or law firm at an hourly rate, [helping] is the right thing to do."
Christopher S. Williams, Calfee Management Committee member, Litigation Partner and Chair of Calfee's Pro Bono Committee
