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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.
Applications for
the 2009 award are now available. The deadline for project submission
is October 16, 2009.
Click here for award information and application.
The Foundation
of the Monroe County Bar (NY) was the winner of the inaugural 2008
NCBF-ALPS Foundations Services Award for Innovations in Fundraising for
its Telesca Center for Justice. Read
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The
North Carolina Bar Foundation
2009 Award Recipient
Read
more about the North
Carolina Bar Association Foundation's 4ALL, a five-front
program with a name that's a twist on "justice for all,"
and designed to involve all members of the legal profession in North
Carolina.
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Award Recipients |
The
South Carolina Bar Foundation
2008 Award Recipient
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'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 2000-05.
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 |
| 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.
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