January 2008 Eliana Theodorou, a young lady recognized by a local group based on her grass roots organizing skills related to environmental causes within her community, was awarded a laptop by TechLaw’s New York office as part of TechLaw’s Community Involvement Program that allocates annual funding to each regional office for use toward one or more community projects each year.
Ms. Theodorou was the Young Women Achiever for Excellence in Environmental Activism at the Annual “Women Achievers Against the Odds”Awards Breakfast hosted by the Long Island Fund for Women & Girls in November of 2007. The fund, which promotes programs that improve the lives of women and girls, highlights and addresses community and women’s issues and develops philanthropy.
Ms. Theodorou, a high school senior, founded her school’s environmental club and also assisted her community in establishing a household materials recycling program. She was instrumental in raising community awareness concerning local waterfront environmental issues. |
Ms. Theodorou was formally recognized at the Awards breakfast, which was attended by more than 600 business, university and community leaders from throughout the New York metropolitan area.
The intent of TechLaw’s Community Involvement Program is to provide support for projects related to TechLaw’s role in the community, in addition to fostering and solidifying local relationships. Individual offices can combine their stipends for greater impact or to fund larger projects, as well as to build inter-office relationships. TechLaw hopes this program will continue to strengthen relationships within the communities in which our personnel live and work, with increased benefit to the communities.
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