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porate legal departments, public
interest groups and courts. In 2016,
the Highest Heights Initiative (HHI)
was established to provide financial
support to former SLIP participants
to assist with LSAT and Bar Examination preparation course costs and
bar examination fees.
For more details on SLIP and Highest Heights, please read the article
Law, among others. Including the
$125,000 in grants made in 2016,
since the joint grant program was
begun, we have made $875,000 in
grants. In 2017, we expect that total
to surpass one million dollars.
The Atlanta Bar Foundation needs
you to do your part. We ask that you
make a general contribution of any
size to the Atlanta Bar Foundation,
“Signing these scholarship
checks is one of my most
meaningful duties as President
of the Foundation.”
by former Foundation President
Wade Malone on page 12 of this
issue of the Atlanta Lawyer.
Several years ago, the Atlanta Bar
Lawyer Referral and Information
Service (LRIS) and the Foundation
combined their resources to create
a joint grant program. The joint
grant program takes applications
and makes grants to programs that
advance the charitable purposes
of the Atlanta Bar Association, as
described above. In addition to the
Summer Law Internship Program,
Minority and Diversity Clerkship
Program, and Police Scholarship
Fund discussed above, grant recipients have included the Truancy
Intervention Project, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Pro Bono
Partnership of Atlanta, Georgia
Asylum & Immigration, Georgia
Justice Project, Georgia Innocence
Project, Georgia Law Center for
the Homeless, Georgia Appleseed
Center for Law & Justice, Georgia
Lawyers for the Arts, and Green-
which will go to support the many
worthy programs described above.
Every Atlanta lawyer is urged to
become an Atlanta Bar Foundation Lifetime Fellow. This requires
a one-time donation of $1000 or
$1200 with an annual contribution
of $200 for six years. You can also
become a Sustaining Fellow by donating a minimum $150 annually.
We also request that you support
the Atlanta Santa Program by making a donation of any size to support
Santa and his Elves as they spread
holiday cheer to underserved children, seniors, and sick children in
hospitals. The Foundation online
donation portal can be accessed on
the Atlanta Bar Association website
here.
GREAT
IDEAS
FOR YOUR
YEAR-END
GIVING!
donate here
Atlanta Santa Program
Highest Heights Initiative
(of the Summer Law
Internship Program)
Lifetime and Sustaining
Fellows
Make a Tribute
or Memorial
Give a General Donation
The Foundation represents what is
best about our profession and our
Bar Association. We can only do
that with your support.
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The Atlanta Bar Foundation is a 501(c)3
organization and your donation is tax
deductible according to law.
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