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Hollywood, you can keep your Oscars! Within the Bay Area legal community, there was only one award on everyone’s mind this week: Koko. This week, the Anniversary Koko Challenge wrapped up with the annual Koko Awards, celebrating the success of the legal community’s fight against poverty, hosted by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP. Over [...]
A gorilla that learned sign language and 50 Bay Area law firms walk into a bar… and over the course of 25 years raise over $27 million for local charities. How you ask? In 1987, the Bay Area General Counsel Group and United Way of the Bay Area formed a partnership to inspire the legal [...]
Last night, stuffed gorillas made the rounds at the annual Koko Challenge awards ceremony. The Bay Area legal community came together for the last few months to fundraise and volunteer, partnering with United Way to help cut poverty. This year, lawyers raised a record $1.6 million The plush gorilla toys are the mascots for the [...]
Tonight – the prized stuffed gorillas will be given out to winners of United Way’s Koko Challenge! The Bay Area legal community, in their “class action against poverty,” has been raising money for United Way’s poverty-cutting programs over the last few months as part of the Challenge. Top competitors receive Koko gorilla stuffed animals which [...]
How many lawyers in gorilla suits does it take to tackle poverty? It might sound like joke, but to the 31 Bay Area law firms competing in United Way’s Koko Challenge this year, fighting poverty is something they all take very seriously. Every year, the legal community comes together to raise money to fight poverty. [...]
On December 16, the Bay Area General Counsel Group and United Way of the Bay Area announced the 2010 Koko Challenge Award winners during a ceremony hosted at the San Francisco offices of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. The 23rd annual Koko Challenge recognized local law firms for running exceptional United Way fundraising campaigns by [...]
Last week, United Way kicked-off our 22nd annual Koko Challenge at a gathering of law and community leaders hosted by Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. The Koko Challenge is a fundraising contest among local law firms that run United Way fundraising campaigns. The firms compete for top honors by excelling in total dollars raised, innovation and [...]
Yesterday evening, United Way and the Bay Area General Counsel Group presented the 21st Annual Koko Challenge Awards, recognizing local law firms for running exceptional United Way fundraising campaigns. This year, 18 participating firms raised $1.3 million for charitable causes – up 10.5% over 2008. The 2009 top award recipients, recognized by firm size, were: • Baby Koko [...]
Nonprofit organizations have great potential to address our community’s most challenging problems, but often lack the resources to fulfill that potential. Correspondingly, more than half of the Bay Area nonprofits who responded to United Way’s Nonprofit Pulse Survey stated they needed more in-kind support from specialists, such as pro-bono legal or marketing counsel. Forty-four percent of [...]
