2023
Esperanza Shelter, Seeds of Hope Children’s Halloween Party: To celebrate the Holland & Hart Foundation’s 25th anniversary, the Santa Fe office partnered with the Esperanza Shelter for its Seeds of Hope Children’s Halloween Party for its adolescent clients and children. The event was “a resounding success” with 42 participants enjoying games, crafts, delicious food, and creative costumes. Volunteers provided and set up decorations, fun gift bags, pumpkins, pizzas, costume contest prizes, and supplies for festive games. The Esperanza Shelter’s Director of Development shared that the celebration created a positive life experience for Esperanza’s Seeds of Hope clients and their children who have experienced domestic violence situations.
The Food Depot Food Bank Drive: Holland & Hart Foundation’s Santa Fe office supported The Food Depot by participating in a non-perishable food drive. The office collected items to benefit The Food Depot’s hunger-relief programs. The Food Depot Volunteers sort the items in their warehouse before they travel across Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico to schools, food pantries, senior centers, shelters, and other partner agencies.
2022
Habitat for Humanity Home Build: In honor of Holland & Hart’s 75th anniversary, the firm celebrated its longstanding value of serving its communities by coordinating a firmwide afternoon of service. The Santa Fe office supported Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity by assisting with construction on a new home build, with one team making adobe bricks for a front wall and a second team working on electrical wiring for the house. The impact of projects like this promotes affordable homeownership for Santa Fe area residents by constructing simple, adequate, and energy efficient new homes and repairing or rehabilitating existing homes through the cooperative efforts of partner families, volunteers, donors, and staff.
New Mexico Wildfire Relief: As multiple fires raged throughout the Santa Fe region, the Holland & Hart Foundation Santa Fe office coordinated a firmwide effort to provide greatly needed supplies for displaced families and firefighters working the front lines. Four drops were made. Pet food and animal supplies were collected and delivered to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society, Española Humane animal shelter, and to firefighters to feed pets left at homes. Over 200 donated items were delivered to the Peñasco High School and Glorieta Conference Center, which are housing an influx of displaced families. Peñasco High School is a main hub of support for wildland firefighters. Additionally, the drive raised $750.00 in donations for the Santa Fe Fire Department in support of specialized wildfire-fighting needs.
2021
Annual Santa Fe Indian Market Fundraiser: The Santa Fe office was excited to again participate in selling parking spaces for the popular Santa Fe Indian Market event in August. This initiative is a key fundraiser for the Holland & Hart Foundation, where the funds raised go towards assisting individuals through chosen local charities in the community. This year, the fundraiser brought in $1,475 for local charities.
Share the Warmth – 2021 Winter Drive: The Holland & Hart Foundation Santa Fe office proudly supported St. Elizabeth Shelters and Supportive Housing in Santa Fe during the firmwide 2021 Winter Drive by donating much needed clothing for homeless individuals and families. The office collected approximately 40 items for men, women, and children, including jackets, pants, gloves, and hats.
Back to School Supply Drive with EJ Martinez Elementary: As part of our 2021 School Supply Drive project, the Holland & Hart Foundation Santa Fe office members proudly supported EJ Martinez Elementary School in the Santa Fe Public School district by collecting and donating needed school supplies for students.
2019
Back to School Drive: The Holland & Hart Foundation Santa Fe office members proudly supported the Santa Fe Public School’s Adelanta Program that supports students & families experiencing homelessness. The office collected basic school supplies requested by the organization, including 22 backpacks, notebooks, 70 pencil pouches, binders, and other various school supplies.
Annual Santa Fe Indian Market: The Holland & Hart Foundation Santa Fe office sells parking spaces for Santa Fe’s popular Indian Market event. This is the office’s main fundraiser which assists the charities to which we donate. This year, just over $1500 was raised. The contributions impact and help an incredible number of individuals across the chosen charitable organizations.
2018
St. Elizabeth’s Shelter Clothing Drive: For several years, the Santa Fe Holland & Hart Foundation office members have partnered with St. Elizabeth Shelter and Supportive Housing to help those in need over the holidays. St. Elizabeth Shelter is a local non-profit that provides emergency shelter, food, case management, and counseling, as well as supportive housing to homeless individuals and families. This year, St. Elizabeth identified a need for warm clothing items as many members of the local homeless community do not have adequate clothing to survive the colder temperatures of winter months. Every member of the office rallied to donate coats, socks, sweatshirts, gloves, hats, blankets, and other cold weather gear and delivered the items to St. Elizabeth’s in early December.
Annual Santa Fe Indian Market: The Holland & Hart Foundation Santa Fe office sells spaces in its parking lot during Santa Fe’s popular Indian Market event. The office raised $1675, which in turn is used to benefit St. Elizabeth’s Shelter, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), and Mother Tongue (a literary program), impacting an unquantifiable number of individuals.
2017
Adelante Sock Drive: The Santa Fe office collected 145 pairs of socks for Adelante, a group that helps homeless children and families through the Santa Fe school system.
St. Elizabeth’s Shelter Dinner: For the second year in a row, members of the Santa Fe office cooked dinner at St. Elizabeth’s Shelter, a men’s shelter, and also gave them a check for $500. Almost every person in our office participated by preparing or buying an element of the meal. We made a dinner that the shelter’s residents really enjoyed.
Pitching in to pick up trash and prevent soil erosion protecting an arroyo with Watershed Santa Fe. Arroyos feed directly in the Santa Fe River and are an integral part of the New Mexico surface water system. These often neglected drainages are typically filled with trash and plagued by erosion issues, making them potentially dangerous in heavy storms. Our small, but determined team of five volunteers worked to clear an arroyo as part of Watershed Santa Fe’s rescue program.
Fundraising for Charity during the Santa Fe Indian Market: For over 20 years the Santa Fe office has been raising money for charitable causes by charging to park in the firm’s parking lot during Santa Fe’s Indian Market weekend. This year was no exception and a number of Santa Fe staff members and attorneys – including Joanna Garcia, Kathrina Storm, Ruth Sougstad, Larry Montan͂o, Adam Rankin, Brad Berge, and John Anderson – came in on the weekend to raise over $1100 for the Foundation. Santa Fe office members will meet this fall to decide which organizations to support over the course of the next year. Last year the money raised at this fundraiser went to CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), St. Elizabeth’s Shelter, the American Cancer Society, and Girard’s House.
2016
Indian Market Fundraiser: Our main fundraiser, selling parking spaces for the Annual Indian Market, netted us an all-time high of $1,880 this year! Almost every member of the office and various family members helped to cover shifts at the parking lot all day on Saturday and Sunday. Special thanks to Brad Berge, Michael Campbell, Bill Carr, and Mark Sheridan for facilitating our use of JP Partners’ parking lot. We used the money raised to support several projects sponsored by the office including: CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), St. Elizabeth’s Shelter, American Cancer Society, and Girard’s House – a grief center for children.
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5-Mile Walk: This year, the American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5-Mile Walk was quite personal for our office. John Anderson’s wife, Jackie, endured several rounds of chemo and is an amazing SURVIVOR. In addition to the generous monetary donations by everyone in the office, eight members of the office walked alongside Jackie in support of Jackie and all other survivors. With $1535 in donations, we placed 4th out of 59 teams!
Our small, but dedicated group of walkers included Charlie Baser, Lisa Ortiz, Little West, John Anderson his wife Jackie Davis and daughter Juliet, and Deb Guinn and Tony Tupler.
2015
Mother Tongue Project: Mother Tongue Project, a program to actively engage teen parents with learning by providing language and literacy resources, now offers an English class designed for teen moms at Capital High School in Santa Fe. Nine volunteers from our office applied book covers to preserve books for the growing library inventory.
Fundraising: Our main fundraiser, selling parking spaces for the Annual Indian Market, net us a whopping $1500 this year! We used this money to support several projects we were involved with including: CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), Big Brothers/Big Sisters, American Cancer Society, Mother Tongue Project, Carlos Gilbert Elementary School Halloween Carnival and the Santa Fe Empty Stocking Fund. The participation level at all events this year was phenomenal!
Halloween Carnival: The Carlos Gilbert Elementary School Annual Halloween Carnival is this school’s major fundraiser and has been a beloved tradition in Santa Fe for many years. We chose to contribute to this event because Adam Rankin’s children, Theo and Sylvia, attend the school. The school’s annual goal is to raise money to pay for extracurricular programs, educational activities and supplies, after school clubs, field trips and other programs not otherwise available (e.g., NDI, SF Performing Arts, Wise Fool, etc.). The event is popular not only with those attending the school, but for the entire City of Santa Fe.
Cancer Awareness Walk: We participated in our first American Cancer Society’s 5-Mile Cancer Awareness Walk and we had a blast. We came in second place out of 60 teams! Our initial goal of $500 was eclipsed with donations amounting to $2,625 for this worthy cause.
Food Depot: Each month, the Food Depot supplies food to people in need through 120 partner agencies in nine Northern New Mexico counties, including homeless programs, youth programs, group homes, senior centers, day care centers, domestic violence shelters and more. As part of the Holland & Hart Foundation annual firm-wide food drive, the Santa Fe office committee of the Holland & Hart Foundation donated $670 and more than 40 cans of food to the Food Depot.
