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Community Involvement

Snyder Cohn is proud to have established deep roots in the community. We participate in and contribute to many local organizations. Our associates suggest worthy causes they would like us to sponsor and then we rally as a team. We are an organization who pays it forward. At Snyder Cohn, people count!

In 2009, some of our community projects included:

  • The Montgomery County Medical Society Alliance and MCMS collect new teddy bears and other plush stuffed animals to be given to children who may have suffered neglect, physical and/or sexual abuse. The Tree House Child Assessment Center of Montgomery County assesses approximately thirty children each month. The Tree House provides a safe, neutral, culturally-sensitive, child-focused setting, and the stuffed animal provides comfort at a very difficult time for the child. In January of 2009, we donated so many stuffed animals they asked us if we had collected from the entire building!
  • Race for the Cure. In June of 2009, our team of associates—Snyder Cohn Cares to –Cure—represented us in the Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure. Our team was part of the nearly 45,000 participants who walked that day, raising more than $4.3 million in the metropolitan D.C. area. Up to 75 percent of the Komen Global Race’s net income will stay in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to fund local screening, treatment and education programs for the medically underserved.
  • Bethesda Chevy Chase Chamber/KIND. The Bethesda Chevy Chase Chamber annually sponsors KIND-Kids in Need Drive, helping needy kids with school supplies. Many area children start school without the needed supplies, and KIND helps provide the tools they need to succeed. In August of 2009, our associates contributed to our collection box. We collected so many items that the boxes completely filled a car!
  • Snyder Cohn Halloween Project for the Children’s National Medical Center. The CNMC has a total of 283 beds, and typically all are occupied. In October of 2009 our associates gathered during lunch hours and an after-hours event to assemble 300 trick or treat bags with fun finger puppets and foam pumpkins. These bags helped brighten Halloween for the kids who were unfortunately not able to participate in Halloween festivities in their own homes.
  • Holiday Wish List Project for D.C. Children’s Advocacy Center (Safe Shores). Safe Shores sponsors an annual holiday assistance drive for children who are victims of sexual and physical abuse, who deserve to have holiday wishes and certainly deserve to have them come true. In November/December of 2009, our associates fulfilled 22 wish lists of the total 150 kids the center was sponsoring. We had so many gifts that the bags filled the back of a pick-up truck and then spilled over into the cab!
  • Annually, we participate in Daffodil Day, which is a fund raiser for the American Cancer Society. Eddie Snyder personally delivered daffodils to each of our associates to thank them for their contributions to our many causes and to our firm in general.
  • At the request of one of her Leadership Montgomery classmates, one of our partners, Maureen McCarthy has joined the Board of Crime Solvers. As Maureen describes it, “it is pretty cool” other than her husband calling her “McGruff the Crime Dog!”