The left image is a woman embracing a child while volunteering. The right image showcases Kim Fleming and Max Mann wearing Baird Gives Back t-shirts at an outdoor volunteer event.

2023 Baird Gives Back Week

At Baird, we believe giving back isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s at the core of what it means to call a community home.

Our firm has a long tradition of community involvement. We are proud to support our associates’ passion for service by matching individual donations, hosting workplace giving programs, backing deserving causes through Baird Foundation and supporting their individual volunteer efforts.

Many of our associates team up during Baird Gives Back, an associate-organized series of volunteering events in communities across the globe. Held annually since 2009, the event unites Baird associates, relatives and friends on three continents.

A closer look at Baird Gives Back 2023

In 2023, associates donated nearly 8,000 volunteer hours to help support non-profit organizations and individuals across the firm’s global footprint.

From May 15-20, more than 2,300 volunteers from over 100 Baird offices in cities such as Milwaukee, Louisville, Frankfurt, Chicago, Sarasota, London, Pittsburgh and many more participated in the firmwide event that launched 14 years ago. Associates helped with community-bettering projects, such as preparing and serving food, tutoring and mentoring students, walking and playing with shelter animals, working with seniors and cleaning up parks, riverbeds, gardens, and more.

The event is organized each year by the Baird Gives Back Associate Resource Group (ARG), which is comprised of Baird associates who share a passion for volunteering. The ARG's mission is to broaden and deepen associates' involvement in volunteer opportunities, career networking and advancement activities in their local communities. It is an extension of Baird's commitment to the communities in which its associates live and work, which is core to the firm's culture and brand.

A woman has a young child on her lap and one next to her reading a book together.A group of individuals are helping out at the ending hunger food bank.A woman is at the Urban Ecology Center outside with beautiful yellow flowers. Two individuals are posing with shovels and they are volunteering outside. A man in a Baird Gives Back t-shirt holds roof rafters at a Habitat for Humanity volunteer eventA woman and a man throw pieces of a tree at the Woodlands. A group of people are posted at the Misericordia home in Baird Gives Back t-shirts.Steve Booth and a woman in a Baird Gives Back t-shirt are volunteering at a food bank.A woman in a Baird Gives Back t-shirt is sparking a humorous conversation with a resident of the Heritage House. An individual is in a field of yellow flowers volunteering. A group of Individuals pose as they visit the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business.A man in a Baird Gives Back t-shirt is helping a child learn how to play chess.

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