Charitable Work

At Kirby & Holt, we witness the heroic efforts of our clients and their families as they courageously battle the challenges dealt them by tragedy. We are deeply honored to represent these clients in seeking the recovery they need and deserve.

Through this representation, we often  learn of others similarly struggling in our society, many of whom have no recourse in our judicial system. We feel called to help these people as well. We try our best to do that through our firm’s charitable efforts.

The Kirby & Holt Foundation began operation in January, 2000, as a vehicle to further this commitment and to allow the firm to honor the courage and spirit of our clients and their families.

Read more about the charitable efforts of our firm as well as the stories of some of our clients who have inspired these efforts.

• Promoting Gifts of Life - In Memory of Jon-Michael Dewitt Ogburn 
• Helping Children with Disabilities Communicate - In Honor of Haley Amanda Hale 
• Providing In-home Therapies for Children with Cerebral Palsy - Carli Snell Endowment Fund 
• Therapeutic Horseback Riding for Children - Luke Wilcox Scholarship Fund 
• Kirby & Holt gives New Hanover Schools Funds for First Adaptive Playground for the Disabled - in Honor of Morgan King 
• Helping disadvantaged high school students – The Wade Edwards Learning Labs 
• Lead sponsor of Easter Seals UCP annual auction 
• Easter Seals UCP of North Carolina – Kirby & Holt named “Philanthropist of the Year”  

Other projects include:

• Supporting 10 military families through Christmas
• A $50,000 donation to Interact, which aids battered women
• Raising $100,000 for hurricane relief
• Helping build an adaptive playground in Statesville for disabled children
• Purchase of playground equipment for Bugg Elementary School in Raleigh
• Sponsorship of a Legal Aid lawyer through the N.C. Legal Education Assistance Foundation
• Establishing scholarship a South Lenoir High School to honor a client
• Establishing a scholarship at Purdue University to honor a deceased client
• Helping to establish a scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to honor a client
• A long tradition of shopping for Christmas presents and delivering them to children and teachers at Walnut Terrace Child Development Center, a preschool located in one of Raleigh’s public housing projects.