Our Commitment to the Local Community
From the firm’s earliest days, when R.M. Fitzgerald helped found the organization that would become the State Bar of California and Carl H. Abbott was active in the Alameda County Bar Association, FAB has had a tradition of community service.
Celebrating our 125th Anniversary
A crucial component of that service is our work with East Bay businesses and local minority and women residents. Our commitment to our local community, as evidenced by our ongoing volunteer efforts, as well as our financial contributions and sponsorships, demonstrates our dedication to FAB’s tradition of community service.
"I have discovered my greatest strengths in serving others. The investment I make in my community has made that discovery possible." Timothy Smallsreed, Partner
In addition to the work that FAB does as a firm, our lawyers are individually active in a wide variety of charitable endeavors. They work with, serve on the boards of, and even run many types of civic, community, cultural, and educational organizations, a number of which seek to improve the lives of the less fortunate in our community. These organizations include:
- Alameda County Bar Association
- Alameda County Volunteer Legal Services Corporation
- AIDS Legal Referral Panel
- Alta Bates Summit Foundation
- Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
- Church Divinity School of the Pacific
- Clausen House
- Coastal Conservancy Association
- East Bay Community Foundation
- Family Support Services of the Bay Area
- Girls, Inc.
- Housing and Economic Rights Advocates
- L. J. Skaggs & Mary C. Skaggs Foundation
- Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
- Mental Health Association of Alameda County
- Nell J. Redfield Foundation
- Oakland Boy's & Girl's Club
- Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
- Rebuilding Together Oakland
- San Francisco Opera
- Sustainable Agriculture Education
- Spark
- YMCA of the East Bay
Some of the entities that have received financial support from FAB and its attorneys:
- ACLU Foundation of Northern California
- American Red Cross
- Bay Institute
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency
- Catholic Charities
- Clausen House
- Diabetic Youth Foundation
- East Bay Community Law Center
- East Bay SPCA
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Fred Finch Youth Center
- Girls Scouts of America
- Girls, Inc.
- Goodwill of the East Bay
- Land Trust Alliance
- Greenpeace
- Legal Assistance for Seniors
- M3 Boys Foundation
- NARAL
- National Center for Science Education
- Natural Resources Defense Counsel
- Nature Conservancy
- NOW
- Oakland Chamber of Commerce
- Planned Parenthood
- Point Foundation
- Rebuilding Together Oakland
- Saint Vincent De Paul Society
- Save the Bay
- Sierra Club
- Smith River Alliance
- Spark
- Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE)
- Volunteers of America Bay Area
- Women’s Choice Clinic
- Women’s Initiative