Our Community Involvement
The law firm of Fine, Farkash & Parlapiano, PA, takes great pride in supporting the charitable and community activities that make Gainesville and north Florida such a wonderful place to live. We regularly purchase television and radio air time for charitable agencies to use to gain public awareness for their causes. In addition to supporting organizations and events, attorneys practicing with the Firm are, and over the years have been, involved in a number of charitable and community activities throughout Gainesville and greater north Florida Area. Educational and environmental programs have been our particular focus. We have established or contributed to Endowed Scholarships in memory of lost loved ones whose families we have represented. We have helped support spinal cord injury support groups in honor of clients. We volunteer in schools from elementary school through graduate education.
We are proud to support the following programs and organizations:
Educational
- Dade Community Foundation, Tracy Paules Memorial Fund (Contributor)
- Santa Fe College, Christa Leigh Hoyt Memorial Scholarship (Endowed)
- Santa Fe College, Charisma O’Connor Memorial Scholarship (Endowed)
- Leadership Gainesville Alumni Association/Kids Start (Sponsor)
- University of Florida Law Center (Donor, Volunteer)
- Bucholtz High School (Contributor)
- Hawthorne High School (Contributor)
- Oak Hall School (Contributor)
- PK Young School Sports Boosters (Contributor)
- Law Week (Participant)
- Duval Elementary School, Rockin’ Reader Book Program (Sponsor)
Environmental
- Alachua Conservation Trust (Board Member, Sponsor)
- University of Florida’s College of Law, Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC) (Bald Cyprus Sponsor)
- Adopt a River (Contributor)
- Keep America Beautiful (Contributor)
- Lake Santa Fe Lake Dwellers Association (Contributor)
- Current Problems, Riverfest (Sponsor)
Legal
- Gainesville Area Legal Panel for the American Civil Liberties Union (Past Chair)
- Florida Bar Children’s Fund (Contributor)
- Guardian Ad Litem (Pro Bono Attorney Volunteer, Contributor)
- Clara Gehan Eighth Judicial Circuit Florida Associates of Women Lawyers (Contributor)
- Florida Justice League (Member, Contributor)
Arts
- Friends of Music of the University of Florida School of Music (President, Sponsor)
- The Santa Fe Spring Arts Festival (Award Sponsor)
- Dance Alive (Sponsor)
- Santa Fe High School Band Boosters (Contributor)
- Hippodrome State Theatre (Sponsor)
- The Gainesville Friends of Jazz and Blues, Inc. (Sponsor)
Civic
- NAACP Annual Freedom Fund Banquet (Supporter)
- Historic Gainesville, Inc. (Past Board Member)
- Alachua County Humane Society (Board of Directors, Treasurer)
- Gainesville Community Foundation Women’s Giving Circle (Member)
- Florida Justice Association (Members)
- Junior League of Gainesville (Sustaining Member, Past Treasurer)
- Community Action Foundation of Citrus County, Inc. (Sponsor)
- Habitat for Humanity (Participant)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters (Contributor)
- Cub Scout Pack 576 (Contributor)
- Boy Scout Troop 163 (Contributor)
- Children’s Wish Foundation (Contributor)
- Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary (Contributor)
- Hope for the Holidays (Contributor)
- North Central Florida YMCA (Contributor)
- Scouts of Hawthorne (Contributor)
- United Way (Contributor)
- St. Francis House (Volunteer, Contributor)
Health and Fitness
- American Cancer Society (Sponsor)
- Shands Jacksonville Spinal Cord Injury Support Group (Sponsor)
- Chain Reaction, March of Dimes (Supporter)
- American Heart Association (Contributor)
- Children’s Miracle Network (Contributor)
- Hospice of North Central Florida (Contributor)
- Muscular Dystrophy (Contributor)
- National Children’s Cancer Society (Contributor)
- March of Dimes (Contributor)
- Red Cross (Contributor)
- Floridians for Patients (Donor)
- Special Olympics Winners Circle Member (Donor)
- Gainesville Recreation & Parks Department (Sponsor)
- Gainesville Cycling Club (Sponsor)
- Florida Bicycle Association (Sponsor)
- Gainesville Area Rowing (Contributor)
- People to People Sports (Contributor)
- Rising Star Gym (Contributor)
- S.V.L. Soccer (Contributor)
- Running Rattlers (Contributor)
Religious
- University of Florida Hillel (Contributor)
- All Saints Anglican Church (Contributor)
- Congregation B’nai Israel (Past Vice-President, Sponsor)
- Congregation B’nai Israel (Past Day School Board President)
- Gainesville Community Ministry (Contributor)
