Category: CBM100

Seventy five years ago Crissy’s Uncle “jack” Thurman landed on Iwo Jima and was dispatched to help secure the airfield at the base of mount Suribachi. As an 18 year old marine fighting for the airfield, “I looked over my right shoulder, and I saw a flag going up, it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw in my life.”         Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell has kept an active commitment to serving the local community for… Read more ›

  John Shlesinger always had a passion for basketball considering he played in high school and countless amounts of pick up games. He continued to pursue his passion by coaching the basketball league with the Fort Hunt Youth Athletic Association (FHYAA) from December 2019 to February 2020 full of 15 to 16 year old boys. Fort Hunt Youth Athletic Association located in Alexandria, Virginia, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide the youth within the community the opportunity… Read more ›

As part of Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM)’s ongoing CBM100 charitable events, the firm’s administrator Linda Murphy spearheaded and managed the collection of gently worn coats and other winter items such as jackets, scarves and hats during the month of January for Central Union Mission. Central Union Mission is a faith-based not-for-profit organization and the oldest private social service agency–founded in 1884–in Washington, DC. Linda networked throughout the firm to enlist donations, generating several bags full of items from generous… Read more ›

On January 21, Senior Tax Accountant Ginger Wu and Tax Manager Brenda Haase led team members Aurora Wheeler, Lorraine Flude, Winnie Yang, Tana Papinova, Abbie Niehoff and Jenny Wang in decorating cookies for the Bethesda Fire Department and Montgomery County Police to show gratitude for keeping the communities they serve safe. The cookies were decorated with the circle from the Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) logo. Brenda spent more than 10 hours baking cookies for the team to decorate. The… Read more ›

On January 10, Litigation Support Manager Jordan Egert led Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) staff members Tana Papinova, Pat Drolet, Reema Patel and Kathleen Booker in volunteering at Rock Creek Conservancy’s Rock Creek Park clean-up event. The Conservancy aids in education, restoration, and preservation of Rock Creek’s history and beauty, including 33 miles of creeks. The CBM team combined forces, spending several hours together cleaning up the river banks and wooded areas near Broad Branch Road. Their efforts, combined with… Read more ›

On January 2, Staff Accountant Derya Gazioglu gathered Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) staff members John Shlesinger, Bhavin Patel, Grace Song, Mikki Obreja, Minji Kim and Michael Corvelli to volunteer at the DC Central Kitchen, a charitable organization which “was founded in 1989 by a young nightclub manager named Robert Egger. Robert’s idea for a ‘central kitchen’ involved picking up wasted food, turning it into balanced meals for shelters and nonprofits and using that process to train jobless adults in… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) kicked off its annual toy drive in mid-November in support of The Children’s Inn at NIH, a residential facility located on the grounds of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, that allows families with seriously ill children participating in research at the NIH to stay free of charge. With just over 100 team members at the firm, project lead Martina Childress, who serves as CBM’s editor and senior proofreader, challenged colleagues to each… Read more ›

In the words of Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) tax practice director, Richard Morris…. I didn’t know that December 3 was Giving Tuesday when I volunteered to help St Peter’s parish in Olney serve the noon meal at So Others Might Eat in Washington, D.C. but I did know it was the 493rd straight month my parish had done so.* While I’d been making a pot of chili and freezing it 11 or 12 times a year for SOME for… Read more ›

On Sunday, November 3, Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) Audit Supervisor, Lori Reynolds participated in the National Race to End Women’s Cancer, and annual Washington, DC-based race, which seeks to raise $500,000 for research purposes as well as awareness for the work of the Foundation for Women’s Cancer. The foundation has successfully generated $8.5 million in different research grant awards over the years, all dedicated toward supporting them the fight for a cure for women’s gynecological cancers. “Finding a cure… Read more ›

On Saturday, November 2, Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM)’s Assistant Controller Lisa Sippel and Tax Process Manager Lucy Gomez joined a large group of volunteers from the McLean Rotary Club to assemble meals in support of Rise Against Hunger, an organization that provides millions of meals to those in need in developing nations around the world. The meals prepared during their event, which consisted of soy beans, dried vegetables, rice and vitamin packets, went to help patients hospitalized in the… Read more ›