Firms

Arizona

WealthPoint LLC has opened an office in Phoenix, at 3131 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 330, and begun providing succession planning, legacy planning and life insurance planning to high-wealth clients.

California

Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Co., Fremont, was a sponsor of the 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Economic Summit and Conference. ... RBZ LLP has been named one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal for the third year in a row, moving up to No. 3.

Colorado

R T Higgins & Associates PC, Denver, has joined Eide Bailly LLP. Richard T. Higgins has joined the firm as a partner, bringing six staff members with him.

Georgia

Clements Purvis & Stewart PC, Douglas, has joined Enterprise Worldwide. Founded in the 1930s, the firm has three partners and a staff of 19, including 10 CPAs.

Illinois

Crowe Horwath LLP, Oak Brook, recently implemented its first intern day of service, with 85 Crowe interns and personnel from 10 offices volunteering at local nonprofit organizations for a total of more than 500 hours.

Indiana

The Construction & A/E Team of Somerset CPAs, Indianapolis, won the award for "Best Meal" in the CANstruction Event benefiting Gleaners Food Bank at the 2010 Indiana State Fair, with a canned-food structure called "Porko Hamdretti," a pig driving a race car made up of over 1,500 cans of pineapple, Spam, green beans, corned beef, peas, chicken, baked beans and grapefruit.

New Jersey

Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, LaPilusa LLC, Cranford, participated in its second Foundation Fighting Blindness Jean Day, supporting firm member Tara Lotito in the Race to Cure Blindness. Staff were encouraged to wear denim in exchange for making a donation.

New York

Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP announced its 5th Annual Citrin Cooperman High School Accounting/Business Student Grants, providing annual grants of $1,000 to students near the firm's offices in Philadelphia, White Plains, N.Y., New York City, and Springfield, N.J. ... Freed Maxick & Battaglia CPAs, Buffalo, has launched an interactive digital Facebook billboard on the inbound NY-33 Kensington Expressway, displaying real-time content from the firm's Facebook page to help raise awareness of local charitable and community-based organizations and their events.

North Carolina

Blair, Bohlé & Whitsitt PLLC, Charlotte, participated in the Ballantyne Rotary Club's 2010 School Supply Drive, acting as a drop-off site for donations of school supplies for students in the area. ... Drake Software announced plans to open a new call center, its third, in Hayesville in October. ... Hughes Pittman & Gupton LLP, Raleigh, has been certified Green Plus by the Institute for Sustainable Development after an extensive review of its organizational policies and procedures that lasted more than eight months.

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