The Florida Bar News: Bay Area Legal Services meets challenge to establish Richard C. Woltmann Endowment
The Florida Bar News recently covered that Bay Area Legal Services has met a matching challenge made by an anonymous donor who to create the Richard C. Woltmann Endowment at Community Foundation Tampa Bay:
Bay Area Legal Services has met a $250,000 matching challenge made by an anonymous donor who pledged up to $500,000 to create the Richard C. Woltmann Endowment at Community Foundation Tampa Bay.
Created in honor of former President and CEO Richard “Dick” Woltmann’s 43 years of leadership, the endowment ensures long-term access to justice.
A standout moment in the campaign came when Carlton Fields shareholders Jason Quintero, Kathleen McLeroy, Gary Sasso, and former Florida Bar President Gwynne Young rallied its attorneys to raise $25,000 from individual donations in honor of Woltmann, which the firm then matched with an additional $25,000.
Bay Area Legal Services has had a life changing impact, literally, on thousands of people in our community. It has saved people from losing their homes, their children, their jobs, and their health, and has given so many the opportunity to make a better future for themselves. Dick Woltmann has been the driving force behind this effort for decades.”
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