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NCBF-ALPS
Foundation Services Award for Innovations in Fundraising
NCBF Award for Bar Foundation Excellence in Public
Service Programming
The
NCBF-ALPS Foundation Services Award for Innovations in Fundraising
has been established to honor excellence in state and local bar
foundation fundraising. Innovative fundraising techniques, from training
board members to creating original programs, are important to successful
fundraising. Recognition of these efforts benefits all NCBF members by
providing information on programs that work and can be replicated by other
bar foundations.
The Foundation
of the Monroe County Bar (NY) is the winner of the inaugural 2008
NCBF-ALPS Foundations Services Award for Innovations in Fundraising for
its Telesca Center for Justice. The Monroe County Bar Association and
the Foundation of the Monroe County Bar led an effort to co-locate with
four civil legal services organizations. All the organizations are housed
together in a centrally located ten story office building in the heart
of downtown Rochester, convenient to public transportation, the courts
and other social services agencies. This Partnership for Equal Justice
is not only raising funds to offset costs of the co-location effort but
provides for shared services and collaboration to plan for the future
stability of all the Equal Justice Partners. Read
more
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The
NCBF Award for Bar Foundation Excellence in Public Service Programming
recognizes
a bar foundation for an innovative, imaginative program and/or grant
award for public service projects in the legal arena. The
award honors a bar or law foundation for its creative response to
important societal issues.
The award will
emphasize the following criteria:
- Innovation
and creativity of the idea
- Efficiency
of execution
- Outcomes
of the project or grant; and
- The ability
to be replicated by other bar foundations and to be flexible enough
to change course as emerging needs arise.
Click
here to see programs that have been submitted for this year's award
competition. The award winner will be honored during the
2009 NCBF Annual Meeting in Chicago.
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Each year, the NCBF
Award for Bar Foundation Excellence in Public Service Programming honors
a bar foundation for "demonstrating excellence and impact in either
its programs or grant-making awards to its community."
The South Carolina
Bar Foundation is the recipient of the 2008 National Conference of Bar
Foundations (NCBF) Award for Bar Foundation Excellence in Public Service
Programming.
The foundation's project,
Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI), is an initiative conducted by the
South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families and serves non-violent,
low-income fathers who are underemployed or unemployed and behind in their
child support payments. ATI components are successfully integrated into
seven fatherhood programs around the state. Fathers may be ordered to
participate by the court or may enter the program voluntarily. Read
more.
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Cincinnati
Bar Foundation
2007
Award Recipient
The
Cincinnati Bar Foundation is the recipient of the 2007 National
Conference of Bar Foundations (NCBF) Award for Bar Foundation Excellence
in Public Service Programming. This award is given annually to a
bar foundation demonstrating excellence and impact in either its
programs or grant-making awards to its community. In establishing
this award, NCBF seeks to recognize and honor the noble work of
bar foundations that quietly and effectively build communities,
understanding and hope.
The
foundation's project, Out of the Crossfire, is a gunshot violence
intervention program created to address the dramatic rise in the
incidences of gun violence-a 500 percent increase in Cincinnati
from 2000-2005. During the year 2000, 75 gunshot wounds were treated
at Cincinnati's University Hospital Trauma Center. For the 2005
calendar year, the hospital saw more than 350 gunshot wounds. This
dramatic increase in gunshot wounds was accompanied by a staggering
health care cost as well as an enormous personal impact on the injured
victims. The purpose of Out of the Crossfire is to break the cycle
of violence, help the participants lead a productive life and relieve
the community of crime and the economic drain on limited resources.
The
program utilizes the expertise of social service providers, outreach
workers, lawyers, business and faith-based organizations, community
members, physicians, nurses and other members of the trauma team.
Collaboratively, these individuals focus on the restoration of health
and well-being of the gunshot victim. The program begins on the
first day the patient is able to consent and continues for years
during his or her recovery.
Out
of the Crossfire includes an evaluation of the survivor's social
circumstances with specific attention to issues such as job and
vocational rehabilitation, continuing education, substance abuse
and/or mental health counseling, circumstances of living conditions,
environmental factors and peer group, as well as legal and court
responsibilities. Survivors are mentored and referred to local agencies
providing educational and job training programs, employment opportunities,
counseling, life skills training, legal assistance, medical coverage
and follow-up care.
In
the first year of this program, a weekly life skills class for Out
of the Crossfire participants, including in-patients, discharged
patients and their family members, has been formed. Some participants
receive assistance with completing their GEDs and help with relocation.
A database of qualified community resources has been developed for
referral-making purposes and volunteer peer role models have been
recruited as volunteers to assist clients pursuing lifestyle changes.
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Allegheny
County Bar Foundation (Pittsburgh)
2006 Award Recipient |
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Thirteen
years ago, two members of the Allegheny County Bar Association started
Attorneys Against Hunger as a grassroots campaign to raise money
for hunger relief. Over the course of the last 12 years, the campaign
has evolved into one that hunger service agencies rely on to fight
hunger in Allegheny County.
In
2004 and 2005, the campaign raised over $171,000, bringing the total
raised over the 13-year history of the campaign to over $500,000.
The funds raised are distributed to 12 hunger service agencies in
the community. The campaign benefits from the long-standing support
of LexisNexis, which underwrites the administrative costs of the
campaign, enabling every dollar donated to go directly to hunger
service agencies in need. Additionally, a family of the bar association
and a local firm award a challenge grant as an incentive to encourage
member participation. If the target goal is met, the grant is released
to the campaign.
For
more information about "Attorneys Against Hunger," visit
www.acbf.org/grants/atty_against_hunger.
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