COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Horack Talley is committed to making the community a better place; this is why the firm as a whole and as individuals are committed to a number of causes including the following:

Habitat for Humanity

United States military service

Volunteer attorney in the Custody Advocate Program at the Council for Children’s Rights in Charlotte

U.S. Green Building Council, Charlotte Chapter

Pro bono work for Mecklenburg County Legal Aid and Legal Services for the Elderly

Community Health Services

YMCA Board of Advisors

Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation Advisory Council

Chairman of Thompson’s Children’s Home

North Carolina State Bar Association and Mecklenburg County Bar involvement

Women’s Impact Fund

Volunteer attorney for The Children’s Law Center

Board of Directors for the Humane Society of Charlotte

State Council Chairman of the North Carolina Lions

Board member of the Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra

CREW Charlotte

YWCA Central Carolinas

Board of the Urban Land Institute

Adjunct Professor at Central Piedmont Community College

Service on the Boards of various non-profit corporations in the Charlotte area

Harvard Alumni Association

The Junior League of Charlotte

United Way Young Leaders

Service on the Board of Directors at the Seigle Avenue Preschool Cooperative

Humane Society of Charlotte’s Pet PALS (Professionals’ Animal Lovers Society)

Coalition to Unchain Dogs

The VEGA Project

Vestryman at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church

Council member at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church

Deacon at Myers Park Presbyterian Church

Volunteer at the Hickory Community Theatre

Exhibits Committee for the Catawba Science Center

Huntersville Greenway Advisory Committee

Board of the Mecklenburg County Asthma Coalition

Admissions interviewer with the Middlebury College Alumni Association

President of the Charlotte Chapter of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association

President and Board of Directors of Myers Park Country Club

Committee chairman Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Committee

Mecklenburg County Solid Waste Management Committee

Crisis Assistance

N.C. Latino Coalition Citizenship

Open Arms Ministries Outreach

Mecklenburg County Real Property Council

President and Vice-President of the Charlotte Basketball Committee

Past-president of the Charlotte Sportsman’s Club

Charlotte Rescue Mission

Goodwill Industries

Board of the Home Builders Association of Charlotte

A Child’s Place of Charlotte

Assistant Scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troup 17

Guardian ad Litem for the Council of Children’s Rights, for abused and neglected children and in various custody cases in Mecklenburg County