Chapters host community service opportunities throughout the year! We encourage all of our chapters to get involved and enhance their communities through volunteerism.

The combined effort of our chapters will transform and inspire while showing the positive impact of our organization across the world.

This page has been designed to support your efforts with key resources and ideas from your fellow chapters. 

Please reach out to the Chapter's Team (chapters@acc.com) with any updates.

2023

ACC Charlotte

• Community Service Event: Support Our Troops - ACC Charlotte packed holiday gift boxes to be sent to our deployed troops.

• Community Service Event: Back to School Supply Boxes - ACC Charlotte assembled boxes of school supplies for the Council for Children's Rights.

ACC Chicago

• Community Service Event - For Dignity and Health: Pack “Period Kits” for Homeless Women in Chicago - ACC Chicago assembled 300 “period kits” for The Period Collective (TPC) to distribute. TPC is a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides period products to unhoused and low-income individuals throughout the greater-Chicago area. Shelters and food banks very rarely receive donations of period products, and there’s a dire need. The organization's focus is to supply products to shelters, traditional housing facilities, food banks, schools, prisons and other organizations that work with homeless and low-income girls and women.

• Making Spirits Bright Community Service - ACC Chicago and Eversheds Sutherland packed holiday stockings for the Cnicago Youth Center.

• Chapter Community Outreach Event at Bernie’s Book Bank - ACC Chicago hosted its annual community outreach event at Bernie’s Book Bank in Lake Bluff.  Bernie’s Book Bank is like a food depository, except that instead of packaging food, Bernie’s Book Bank collects and packages gently-used children’s books for underserved school children in the Chicago area.

• In-Person Community Service Day at Legal Prep Charter Academy - Legal Prep is Chicago’s first and only legal-themed high school and serves 285 students from its West Garfield Park location.  Legal Prep’s mission is to provide a high-quality high school education in one of Chicago’s most under resourced communities and use its legal-theme curriculum and programs to give students the skills to be successful in college and life.  ACC Chicago repainted various common spaces in the school; organized its utility, supply, and storage spaces; provided basic garden work around the building; set up Chromebooks for upcoming school year; and organized Library books and shelves.

ACC Greater Philadelphia

• 44th Annual Philadelphia Bar Association's 5K Run/Walk for Charity - ACC Greater Philadelphia invited its community to join its in-person legal running team for the 44th Annual Philadelphia Bar Association's 5K Run/Walk for charity and helped benefit the Support Center for Children's Adovocates.

ACC Kentucky

• Community Service Event - Dare to Care Foodbank in Louisville - ACC KY answered the call for food security to benefit needy children, families and seniors.  Corporate Legal Departments were encouraged to collect dry and canned food items.

• Community Service Opportunity - Dare to Care Louisville - ACC KY partnered with local food banks to help those facing food insecurity in the Louisville and Lexington areas. 

• Community Service Opportunity - God's Pantry Lexington - ACC gathered teams to feed their community.

ACC National Capital Region

• ACC NCR Community Service Earth Day Clean Up - Earth Day was celebrated with the ACC NCR Community Service Committee by cleaning up local parks.

• ACC NCR Community Service Event: Food Packing at Manna Food Center - Please join our ACC NCR Community Service Committee and our Maryland Advisory Committee for an evening packing food at Manna Food Center. Manna Food Center provides food to nearly 2,000 households each month, helping the working poor stretch their limited dollars so they can afford a better life. Our group will pack 240 boxes of non-perishable items from Manna's warehouse and will prepare the boxes for distribution.

ACC Northeast

• Annual American Heart Association's 5K Run/Walk Walk for Charity - The "Legal Pace Makers" is the ACC Northeast NextGen Committee's team, and we are once again put on our sneakers and participated in the Lawyers Have Heart Race. 

• Community Service Event: Welcome Home Project - ACC Northeast packed and assembled "Welcome Home" bags. These bags benefited the Boston nonprofit, HomeStart which is working to end and prevent homelessness. 

ACC Ontario

• International Women's Day Social - ACC Ontario and The Shoebox Project filled Shoeboxes with gifts to be distributed to local women impacted by homelessness across Canada. 

ACC Singapore

• FTI Consulting - Charity Event for Ukraine: The Happy Child Foundation - The Happy Child Foundation does incredible work. Established in May 2007 by a group of volunteers, who have been assisting orphans and children with cancer for a long time.

ACC South Florida

• Community Service Activity w/Big Brother Big Sister - ACC South Florida teamed up with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami to offer a community service opportunity for members.Serving the community since 1958, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami (BBBSM) is the premier nonprofit mentoring organization in South Florida. BBBSM’s mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. This special event provided the opportunity for at-risk youth (Littles) who have not yet been matched with an adult mentor (Bigs) to be matched with an ACC volunteer for the day to engage in a fun-filled activity.

• Community Service - Red Apple Supplies Program - ACC South Florida members helped sort donated items, pack supplies for teachers and re-stock products for The Education Foundation of Palm Beach County's Red Apply Supplies Program on Saturday, April 22. The Education Foundation serves the educational and creative needs of children in Palm Beach County public schools by providing a means to transfer donated school supplies from businesses, organizations, and individuals free to teachers for use in classrooms throughout the school year. 

ACC Southern California

• Virtual Volunteer Opportunity: 9th Annual Children’s Rights Summit - ACC-SoCal participated virtually in Baker McKenzie’s 9^th Annual Children’s Rights Summit, hosted by Salesforce. The Children’s Rights Summit brings together disciplines and talent from across the legal community to envision and reimagine what justice for children could look like.

• IN-PERSON EVENT: Project Angel Food HQ, Los Angeles - ACC-SoCal partnered with Project Angel Food to help prepare and package meals for seriously ill community members. Project Angel Food’s kitchen is primarily volunteer-driven; however, volunteers do not need to be great cooks to participate. Under the direction of professionally trained chefs, volunteers will be chopping vegetables, stirring sauces, mixing batters, and packaging the medically tailored meals that Project Angel Food will deliver to critically ill men, women, and children in Los Angeles County.

• ACC Southern California COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT SUMMER BEACH CLEANUP! - ACC Southern California participated in the Justin Rudd Community Action Team Beach Cleanup to help create a clean and safe place for residents, visitors and aquatic wildlife.

• ACC-SOCAL COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT Assembling Free Resource Kits for Those in Need - ACC-SoCal participated in the Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) Summer Service – An Evening of Volunteerism. Participants volunteered to help assemble free resource kits for those in need

2022

ACC Charlotte

• ​​​Dress for Success - Dress for Success helps empower women in our community to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

ACC Chicago

• Legal Prep Charter Academy - Legal Prep is Chicago’s first and only legal-themed high school and serves 285 students from its West Garfield Park location.  Legal Prep’s mission is to provide a high-quality high school education in one of Chicago’s most under resourced communities and use its legal-theme curriculum and programs to give students the skills to be successful in college and life.  Founded in 2012, Legal Prep is consistently recognized in its eight years of operation as the highest rated open enrollment high school in a two-mile radius.

• Dignity and Health: Pack “Period Kits” for Homeless Women in Chicago - TPC is a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides period products to unhoused and low-income individuals throughout the greater-Chicago area. Shelters and food banks very rarely receive donations of period products, and there’s a dire need. The organization's focus is to supply products to shelters, traditional housing facilities, food banks, schools, prisons, and other organizations that work with homeless and low-income girls and women.

ACC Kentucky

• Dare to Care Foodbank in Louisville - Dare to Care relies on food donations in order to support our neighbors in need. When food is donated through food/fund drives, retail partnerships, or other means, it needs to be sorted in our warehouse before it is ready for an agency to distribute.

ACC Southern California

• SUMMER BEACH CLEANUP! - Justin Rudd Community Action Team Beach Cleanup to help create a clean and safe place for residents, visitors, and aquatic wildlife. All ages – as well as dogs (at neighboring Rosie’s Dog Beach) - are welcome. So please feel free to bring your family and friends (human as well as canine) to volunteer with us!

ACC South Florida

• Community Service Activity w/Big Brothers/Big Sisters - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami (BBBSM) has been serving the community since 1958 and is the premier nonprofit mentoring organization in South Florida. BBBSM’s mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

2021

ACC Colorado  

• Step Up to the Plate with the Miracle League of Metro Denver, Miracle League of Denver – a nonprofit in metro Denver that provides children and adults, who are living with various mental and/or physical challenges, an opportunity to play baseball as a team member in an organized league.

ACC Chicago

• Community Outreach Day with Friends of the Forest Preserves, Bunker Hill Forest Preserve This beautiful preserve is just one example of the rich diversity that once was the vast Illinois landscape. Its open savanna, oak woodland and river bluff ecosystems offer interesting views in all seasons. Join North Branch Restoration Project volunteers as we remove buckthorn and other weedy species, protecting these high-quality natural areas.

ACC San Diego

• Volunteering Beach Clean-Up, San Diego Surfrider Foundation - Surfrider is a community of everyday people who volunteer their time to passionately protect our ocean, waves, and beaches. Our volunteers are the lifeblood of the Surfrider Foundation.

ACC Southern California

• JOIN ACC-SOCAL IN SUPPORTING THE L.A. FOOD BANK – FOOD FROM THE BAR!, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank - Volunteering at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is one of the best volunteer opportunities in LA. By donating a few hours of your time, you’ll help us provide food for the 2 million people in Los Angeles County who face food insecurity. Volunteers help us by boxing, sorting and gleaning food that is later distributed through our network of more than 600 agency partners to our neighbors in need.

ACC Austin  

• Central Texas Food Bank Volunteer Day, Central Texas Food Bank - Volunteers are the heart and soul of the Food Bank. We have weekday and weekend volunteer opportunities—perfect for individuals and groups—helping prepare food donations for distribution and distributing food at mobile food pantries.

ACC Charlotte

• Back to School with Nest Academy: The Nest Academy is a small, non-profit private school in Charlotte with a vision to change the lives of its refugee, Immigrant and under privileged students to become confident, educated, and successful first generation high school graduates. The academy offers a tuition-free education to these refugees, immigrants and underprivileged youth, all from private funding, extending the children educational and extracurricular opportunities.

ACC Northeast Ohio

• Greater Cleveland Food Bank with Jackson Lewis: Throughout Northeast Ohio, one in six people is food insecure – meaning they may not know where their next meal will come from. The Greater Cleveland Food Bank seeks to bridge the meal gap, connecting individuals with the nutritious meals they need to succeed.

ACC Northeast

• Cradles to Crayons Giving Factory is an innovative, new clothing donation program to support children facing clothing insecurity in our communities.

2020

ACC Southern California 

• Volunteer Opportunity! October 10, 2020 - Election Protection - Election Protection - With Covid-19 and mail-n voting, it has never been more confusing to cast your vote. Volunteer with Election Protection, the country's largest non-partisan voter protection coalition, as we staff the remote national voter hotline and answer calls from voters (https://electionprotection.wetheaction.org).

ACC San Diego 

• Volunteer At The San Diego Food Bank: Help eliminate hunger in our community by volunteering at the San Diego Food Bank. Your volunteer support enables hunger-relief operations to continue during the COVID-19 crisis!

2019

ACC Charlotte 

• Family Event: Join Womble Bond Dickinson for an a-MAZE-ing Event with Community Service Project! - Autumn is sneaking up on us and before you know it, cooler weather and harvest time will be here!  Join Womble Bond Dickinson and fellow ACC Charlotte members and families for an afternoon of pumpkin decorating, hay rides, funnel cakes, and getting lost in the corn maze. Decorated pumpkins will be donated to the below organizations to help them enjoy and celebrate the fall season as part of a community service project; Featuring - Ronald McDonald House; The Relatives; Charlotte Rescue Mission, Florence Crittenton House
• ACC Charlotte held their 9th Annual Casino Night Fundraiser which honored Charlotte Family Housing and Race Matters for Juvenile Justice by donating 1045 lbs of food for Second Harvest Food Bank. 208 members, spouses, sponsors and guests attended the event.

ACC Southern California

• Community Service Day: Clean the Beach!On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, ACC Southern California and The Surfrider Foundation will partner to clean the beach in Santa Monica.  Participants will meet at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's offices and walk down the beach north of the pier.  We will help clean the beach for about 2 hours with casual cocktails to follow.
• Vincent's Meals on Wheels Community Service Day: Join us to serve as runners and accompany St. Vincent's drivers on delivery routes.

ACC South Florida

• Community Service - Dania Beach PATCH Gardening: ACC South Florida volunteers and their family members can assist with urban farming and gardening at the Dania Beach PATCH!, a community market garden.
• Four ACC South Florida volunteers (plus 1 spouse!) served lunch to 160 people at the Broward Partnership for the Homeless. The Broward Partnership is committed to reducing homelessness by promoting independence and self-worth through advocacy, housing and comprehensive services. ACC South Florida made a $750 donation towards the organization in addition to volunteering our time.

ACC San Diego 

• Holiday Community Service: San Diego Coalition for the Homeless: Help the San Diego Coalition for the Homeless get ready for the Holiday Magic for Kids Christmas Party.

ACC Minnesota

• Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans, in partnership with the law firm of Stinson Leonard Street, invites members to participate in a free legal clinic for low-income veterans. Topics include housing, employment, benefits, debt collection, expungement, family law including child support.

ACC Chicago

• Community Outreach Event at Legal Prep Charter Academy: Legal Prep is Chicago’s first and only legal-themed high school and serves 340 students from its West Garfield Park location.  Legal Prep’s mission is to provide a high quality high school education in one of Chicago’s most under resourced communities and use its legal-theme curriculum and programs to give the students the skills to be successful in college and life.  Founded in 2012, Legal Prep has consistently been recognized in its seven years of operation as the highest rated open enrollment high school in a two-mile radius.

• Community Outreach Event at Cradles to Crayons: Cradles to Crayons is "Helping kids to prepare…every day."  This charity provides the essential items children need to feel safe, warm, ready to learn, and valued.  Volunteer shifts are hosted in their Giving Factory where volunteers have the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and sort, organize, and quality check the items donated to the organization. Volunteers work in various stations like outfits, library, and the toy shop depending on group size and the inventory, in order to make a full KidPack.

ACC Colorado 

• ACC Colorado’s September Community Outreach! Members can give back to the community by volunteering at the Food Bank of the Rockies.

ACC British Columbia

• Community Service Social: Soup Sisters & Broth Brothers: prepare and cook 150-250 servings of healthy fresh soup that will be donated to Sereenas House, a housing program of the Atira Women's Resource Society. Seerenas House is a 56 single room housing development that provides safe and supportive housing for women in the Downtown Eastside.

ACC Northeast Ohio 

• Volunteering at the Cleveland Food Bank: Throughout Northeast Ohio, one in six people is food insecure – meaning they may not know where their next meal will come from. The Greater Cleveland Food Bank seeks to bridge the meal gap, connecting individuals with the nutritious meals they need to succeed.

  The Greater Cleveland Food Bank is the largest hunger relief organization in Northeast Ohio having provided more than 57 million meals in 2018 to hungry people in Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Ashland and Richland counties.

ACC Kentucky 

• Expungement Clinic: Recent changes in Kentucky law governing expungements provide a unique opportunity for attorneys, even those of us in corporate roles, to help our fellow Kentuckians get back on their feet.  Come join us and use your professional skills to improve the employment, housing, and other prospects for those in need in our community. In-house attorneys and law department staff are invited to participate.

ACC National Capital Region 

• Community Service Event with FeedMore: Come help us feed our community. Volunteers will be assisting in the Community Kitchen packaging meals, preparing small bags, and putting meals into boxes to be distributed to our partner agencies. Volunteers must be over 16 years old and able to stay for the duration of the scheduled shift.

ACC St. Louis Chapter 

• ACC St. Louis members are welcome to join in on packing toiletry kits for veterans in connection with ACC's Global Community Service Month.

ACC Connecticut 

• ACC Connecticut will volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, who build and renovate homes for people who are in need. Twelve ACC CT members will participate in a new construction project for a single family. 

ACC Tennessee 

• “This year, the west Tennessee and middle Tennessee sections of ACC TN will be supporting the Memphis Area Legal Services (“MALS) and Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands (“LAS”). The missions of both groups are to advance, defend and enforce the legal rights of low-income and vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Every year MALS and LAS work with hundreds of victims of domestic violence. These victims may be in transition and need small toiletry items or need to speak with an attorney regarding their legal issues at legal advice clinics. ACC TN will collect office supplies such as pens, color paper, copy paper, clip boards, dry erase markers, and notepads at the Memphis, September 18^th luncheon and CLE. The items will be utilized in the legal advice clinics which serve 100-150 people each month at various clinic locations in the Memphis area.

• ACC TN will also collect gift cards at its Nashville, luncheon and CLE which will be distributed to victims in transition who are working with LAS. The cards will be used to purchase food, diapers, gas or clothing for the victims and their families. Both MALS and LAS representatives will briefly speak prior to the monthly CLE about other pro bono opportunities for ACC TN members.”