2024
School Supply Drive for Coyote Ridge Elementary School: For the Foundation’s annual school supply drive initiative, the Foundation’s Cheyenne office was proud to support Coyote Ridge Elementary by collecting and donating backpacks and needed school supplies for students.
Home Build with Habitat for Humanity of Laramie County: The Cheyenne office was proud to support Habitat for Humanity of Laramie County again this year for the committee’s spring project. In 2024, Habitat for Humanity is honoring women in the Cheyenne community with builds titled “The Houses That Women Built” that include two new homes on Wills Road and rehabilitating a home on East 10th Street. Volunteers worked together with the future homeowners sanding drywall at one of the new homes, always a rewarding experience.
2023
Holiday Adopt A Family Supporting Needs, Inc.: The Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne office members were proud to support the Needs, Inc. annual Adopt A Family program for the holidays. Needs, Inc. provides food, essentials, and resources to Laramie County residents during their times of adversity. During the Adopt A Family program, the office was paired with a family of seven, with six children ranging from 16 months to 13 years. Each member of the family provided gift ideas on wish lists. Volunteers purchased and wrapped gifts to fulfill each family member’s wishes and delivered the gifts to Needs, Inc. to provide to the family in December for their holiday celebration.
Habitat for Humanity of Laramie County Home Build: In honor of the Foundation’s 25th anniversary, the Cheyenne office supported Habitat for Humanity of Laramie County by helping a Habitat partner family construct their new home. Volunteers worked together with the future homeowners to build and install several walls of the home and garage. It was a rewarding experience to help the family and their two young children see their future home come to life.
School Supply Drive for Cole Elementary via United Way: The Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne office proudly supported Cole Elementary for this year’s firmwide school supply drive by collecting around $400 worth of school supplies, including backpacks, crayons, sidewalk chalk, tissues, markers, pencils, and more. Volunteers coordinated with United Way of Laramie County to facilitate the drop-off of the items, after which United Way dispersed the school supplies throughout Cole Elementary as needed.
2022
Tie Blankets for CASA of Laramie County: This holiday season, the Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne office proudly supported the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Laramie County by donating around 20 tie blankets. The advocates of CASA provide blankets to the foster children they work with so that the children have something that is theirs and they can travel with them from house to house. A group of Foundation members, family, and friends gathered on an afternoon in December with purchased fabric of choice and a pair of scissors and went to work, creating some amazing, artistic blankets for the children of Laramie County.
Salvation Army Cheyenne Corps Adopt-a-Family: The Cheyenne office participated in the Salvation Army Cheyenne Corps’ Adopt-a-Family program for one of its 2022 Holland & Hart Foundation Holiday Projects by supporting four children of various ages. The office combined resources to purchase items on children’s holiday wish lists including gifts, toys, and clothing.
Friday Food Bag Foundation Drive: In honor of celebrating the firm’s 75th anniversary and longstanding value of serving its communities, the Cheyenne office supported the Friday Food Bag Foundation by setting up stands at three grocery locations to collect food and monetary donations. FFBF was founded in 2007 as a Holland & Hart Foundation project celebrating the firm’s 60th anniversary! Initial funds limited first deliveries to only 50 bags per week to the Title I Schools in the Cheyenne community. Thanks to the generosity of our community, combined with grants, FFBF now delivers over 1,100 bags of single serve, nutritious, non-perishable food to underserved students in Laramie County every week.
Homes 4 Hounds Fundraiser Benefiting K9s 4 Mobility: The Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne members and family joined Habitat for Humanity of Laramie County’s Home Construction Program for their “Homes 4 Hounds” event, a fundraiser benefitting K9s 4 Mobility. Volunteers worked in shifts helping with setup, greeting visitors, assisting with doghouse building or painting, and cleanup. There were some amazing doghouses constructed! The doghouses get displayed at the sponsoring businesses and on K9s 4 Mobility’s website and are raffled off to raise funds for K9s 4 Mobility programs.
2020
Wyoming Way Donation Day: Wyoming Way Donation Day was a drive-thru supply drive event supporting local nonprofits and was organized by a local pharmacist in Cheyenne to assist families directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The community was invited to donate non-perishable items, cleaning products, pet food, and toiletries, to be provided through nonprofit organizations to families throughout the community. The Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne office donated three boxes of non-perishable items. Five Foundation members and family also volunteered to help sort and organize the items being delivered. The first ever Wyoming Way Donation day raised over $5,700 and several truckloads of items were donated to the community!
Support Our Seniors – Food Delivery: The Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne members volunteered with Lynn Buys Houses to help seniors in the community with food assistance needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Volunteers helped load bags of donated food and delivered them to elderly families in Cheyenne. Approximately 50 bags of food were delivered!
Family Promise of Cheyenne – Food Delivery: The Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne Committee partnered with Family Promise of Cheyenne, an organization that provides children and their families experiencing homelessness with emergency and ongoing shelter, meals, and supportive services, to support a single mother in Cheyenne facing homelessness. For a week, the volunteers each made a home-cooked dinner for one night and delivered the meal to the doorstep of the family.
2019
Share the Warmth – Salvation Army: Each year, during the the Cheyenne office’s Open House holiday party, members of the community are invited to bring coats or other warm items to be donated to the Salvation Army in order to help people have a warm winter. In 2019 the Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne office members were able to to donate over 25 items to the Salvation Army.
Operation Back-to-School: Needs, Inc. provides food security, clothing, household items, school supplies, and referral services to Laramie County residents in need. The Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne office members were proud to support the Needs, Inc. annual Operation Back to School program for students, by collecting and delivering over $800 of school supplies.
2018
Community Food Drive: The Cheyenne Committee of the Holland & Hart Foundation collected food during the annual Foundation firm-wide Community Food Drive!
The Cheyenne “Downtown Hoedown”: Cheyenne’s annual July Frontier Days celebration included the first ever “Downtown HoeDown,” organized by the Downtown Business Development Agency. The DBDA closed down a street for food, concerts, and line dancing. Eight Holland & Hart Foundation Cheyenne members helped set up the street, putting together seats and hay bales for the party.
2017
A Family Christmas: For the holidays, we continued to support the Native American family that we provided school supplies for in August (Operation Back to School). Using donations and money raised by members of our office we provided each child with their their top wish for a dream Christmas, plus a new outfit, hats, gloves, and snow boots to get through our long winters!
Cheyenne Parks and Recreation Fence Staining: The Cheyenne office worked with the City of Cheyenne and Parks and Recreation to stain a fence at Romero Park. The fence, which had sorely needed a fresh coat of stain for some time, added beauty to a park in need in Cheyenne. Our group was able to re-stain the entire fence to help out the City of Cheyenne.
Operation Back to School – A family in Cheyenne obtained guardianship of seven nieces and nephews from a Tribal reservation in Wyoming. The family received no financial assistance from the State of Wyoming or the Tribe. Members of the Cheyenne office donated time and money to the family to provide the children with school supplies for the 2017/2018 school year. Each child was given a new backpack, necessary school supplies, two new outfits, and two pairs of shoes and new socks.
Greeters at Kiwanis Community House worked 2-hour shifts for the Cheyenne Day of Giving. Cheyenne Day of Giving is a one-day community event for businesses and organizations to come together at the Kiwanis Community House in Lions Park. Churches, businesses, community groups, and individuals drop off non-perishable food, personal care items, crafts and supplies, medical supply equipment, eyeglasses, hearing aids, and the like. Attendees can also register to be a bone marrow or organ/tissue donor, and give blood. Donated items and ‘wish list’ supplies purchased with cash contributions are distributed throughout the year to various agencies that assist those who are sick or economically challenged within the Cheyenne community.
2016
Cheyenne Food Drive: The Cheyenne office collected $470 and 398.5 pounds of food in this year’s annual food drive to help families in need over the holidays. With 32 people in the office, that’s a whopping 27.14 pounds per person!
2015
Cheyenne Day of Giving: On the annual “Cheyenne Day of Giving” in May, community members in Cheyenne collect food and other items for several local charities that help the sick and the economically disadvantaged. The office conducted a canned food drive, and a drive for medical equipment, leftover prescription medication, and craft supplies. In addition to donations, more than a third of the office volunteered over the course of the day boxing and loading the donated items for distribution.
Adopt-a-Family: The Cheyenne office adopted two families over the Christmas holidays that we are also helping on a pro bono basis. They are aiding the grandparents in obtaining permanent guardianship of their grandchildren through Equal Justice Wyoming. The office raised approximately $1,000 to spend between the two families, bought presents for six children, the grandparents, and meals for the families. Efforts included raising money, shopping, wrapping, and delivering the gifts and meals.
2014
Cheyenne’s Friday Food Bag Foundation Gets Financial Boost: A program started by Holland & Hart’s Cheyenne office in 2007 to celebrate the firm’s 60th anniversary has snowballed into a communitywide project and nonprofit foundation that soon will be delivering more than 800 bags of groceries every week to students and their families who otherwise would go hungry over the weekend.
The program, now formally the Friday Food Bag Foundation, began as a community service project of the Cheyenne office to provide weekend meals to students who qualify for the free/reduced-cost lunch program in Laramie County schools. It had been observed that many of those children were able to eat a hot lunch at school but had very little or nothing to eat most evenings and over the weekends.
Using seed money from the Holland & Hart Foundation as well as individual donations, staff and attorneys purchased single serve, non-perishable, easy to prepare food items, packed them in bags and delivered them to the schools for distribution.
Word got out in the community, and donations from individuals, firm clients, civic clubs, and churches started pouring in. By the end of 2009, the program had become too big for the office to handle alone. With donations and the help from Kiwanis, a nonprofit foundation was established.
With donations and volunteers from throughout the Cheyenne community, the program is currently distributing 530 bags per week to students in grades K-8. Recent grants and donations totaling $73,000 are now making it possible to extend the program into high schools, which will increase the number of bags distributed each week to more than 800. The high school program will include a volunteer component allowing students to contribute by volunteering their time to help fill and prepare the bags for delivery.
Festival of Trees: The Festival of Trees is an annual auction and fundraiser hosted by Magic City Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves adults with disabilities in Cheyenne by offering job training and job assistance, as well as social integration and activities. Members of the Cheyenne office committee of the Holland & Hart Foundation decorated a tree with the theme of “Peppermint Twist” for donation to the auction. A group of attorneys, paralegals and secretaries from the office shopped for the tree and decorations, and then the office gathered with their families on a Saturday afternoon to decorate the tree. The Peppermint Twist tree won the “People’s Choice” award and ultimately was auctioned off for $600, which went directly to Magic City Enterprises.
Additional Projects:
- Annual Firm-wide Food Drive
- Habitat for Humanity Build Day
- Lee National Denim Day
- Operation Back to School
- Stern Family Summer Project