COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Pro-Bono Work
Firm Philanthropy
In addition to spending time in the community, our Community Service Committee selects one local organization each month to focus our fundraising efforts towards. In 2023, with the help of the firm, we raised over $3,000 in donations for local charities. As a firm Marks Gray has collected donations from attorneys and staff during times of local, national and international crisis. During Hurricane Katrina, the firm raised over $11,500 toward relief efforts. The firm raised $5,130 for “Faith-Hope-Love Infant Rescue,” a non-profit orphanage in Haiti that was hit hard by the earthquakes in 2010. This nonprofit is run by a former Marks Gray employee. The following is a select sampling of community and charitable organizations we partner with:
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- American Red Cross
- Best Buddies of Jacksonville
- Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Northeast Florida
- Boys Home
- Bright Holidays
- Children’s Home Society of Florida
- Communities in School
- Duval County Teen Court Board
- First Coast Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- First Coast Women’s Services
- Florida Urgent Rescue (FUR)
- Freed to Run
- Gabriel House of Care
- Girl Scouts of Gateway Council
- Girls of Virtue
- Hubbard House of Jacksonville
- Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce
- Jacksonville Commodores League
- Jacksonville Community Council, Inc.
- Jacksonville Historical Society
- Junior League of Jacksonville
- Juvenile Arthritis Foundation
- K9 for Warriors
- Leadership Jacksonville
- Learn to Read
- Malivai Washington Youth Foundation
- March of Dimes
- Meninak
- National Military Family Association
- Navy League of the United States, Jacksonville Council
- One Woman’s Place
- Operation New Hope
- Ronald McDonald House
- Rotary International
- Safe Animal Shelter
- Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation, Board of Directors
- Trinity Rescue Mission
- United Way of Northeast Florida
- Willing Hands
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