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Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2010

The Firm’s Community Involvement

Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver

is proud that its lawyers contribute regularly to the community and in many ways:

Audubon Institute • Dress for Success • The Pro Bono Project • Tulane University Hospital and Clinic • CASA • KIDsmART • Langston Hughes Academy Charter School • New Orleans Young Leadership Council • Tulane University Medical Center • Anti-Defamation League • Dillard University • Summerbridge • Touro Infirmary • Audubon Zoo • Jewish Endowment Foundation • Downtown Development District • The Ogden Museum of Southern Art • HELP Program • ArtSmart • Teen Life Counts • Trinity Episcopal School • Goodwill Industries • Touro Synagogue • 50Forward • WGIRLS NOLA • Legacy Donor Foundation • Lakeview Civic Improvement Association • Teach for America • Fête Française • Tulane Cancer Center • Metrovision • Prospect1 • Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans • Symphony Chorus of New Orleans • Louisiana Children’s Medical Center • Isidore Newman School • American Cancer Society • Junior League of New Orleans • Arts Council of New Orleans • New Orleans Children’s Museum • Boys’ Hope Program • Louisiana Nature and Science Center • Louisiana Appleseed

The firm also makes significant annual donations to New Orleans’s charitable causes.

In 2010, for example, the firm donated to The Roots of Music, an acclaimed program founded by Derrick Tabb of the Rebirth Brass Band. The Roots of Music provides students with free after school music instruction, instruments, academic tutoring, meals, uniforms, a safe place to rehearse, and transportation. It also pairs local students to work one-on-one with college students from Tulane, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth and Stanford universities.

This year the firm also donated to Teach For America, a well-known and acclaimed program that has made a phenomenal and lasting impact on New Orleans’s at-risk youth post-Katrina by infusing New Orleans’s classrooms with the teaching and skills of 470 of the nation’s top college graduates.

In the past, Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver established a $20,000 scholarship fund for the New Orleans Charter Science and Math School to enable students to participate in ACT and SAT test preparation seminars. The seminars offer the preparation and practice needed to raise scores to make students more competitive as college applicants. If the students stay in Louisiana, earning a designated score on the ACT will qualify them for T.O.P.S., a full-tuition scholarship at any state college or university.

The firm also sponsored and built a home in The Habitat Musicians’ Village in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Conceived by New Orleans natives Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis, NOLA Musicians' Village provides a home for both the artists who have defined the city’s culture and the sounds that have shaped the musical vernacular of the world.

Further, the firm contributed to Tipitina's Foundation, which supports Louisiana and New Orleans' irreplaceable music community and helps preserve the state’s unique musical cultures.

The firm also established a scholarship for young dancers at Praise In Motion Dance Academy in honor of one of our early staff members, who passed away at a young age shortly after founding of the firm.

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