American Bar Association, Fund for Justice and Education
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Grants
13
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Total Awarded
$2,730,108
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Years
1980 - 2017
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Categories
Grants
2017 ( 6 months)
$55,000
The American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education supports the public service and educational programs of the American Bar Association (ABA). With over 400,000 members, the ABA is the voice of the legal profession in the United States. This award enables the ABA Center for Innovation to support hurricane and flood victims through the expansion of FloodProof, a web-based tool and application to help secure housing title and other critical documentation needed to receive federal, state and local relief and compensation.
2016 (1 year)
$37,000
The American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration seeks to ensure fair treatment and full due process rights for immigrants and refugees within the United States. With this award, the Commission
updates a seminal resource first published in 2004, the “Standards for the Custody, Placement and Care; Legal Representation; and Adjudication of Unaccompanied Alien Children in the United States.” Developed through consultation with experts and legal practitioners, the updated Standards reflect changes in law, policy, and practice in the intervening years. The Standards inform legal service providers in representing children in immigration matters and offer best practices related to custody, placement, care and adjudication of these cases.
2014 (2 years 9 months)
$150,000
This grant to the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education will support the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), an immigrant legal service provider located on the United States-Mexico border. The grant will support technology upgrades and strategic planning to accommodate the rapid growth ProBAR has experienced as a result of the surge in arrivals of unaccompanied immigrant children at the southern border. ProBAR will expand capacity for legal service and derive policy recommendations from its practice in support of stronger protection for child migrants under U.S. law.
2008 (1 year)
$200,000
In support of initiatives to support the International Criminal Court’s investigations in Darfur, Sudan.
2006 (1 year)
$183,000
In support of a training program to prepare Sudanese lawyers for effective advocacy before the International Criminal Court.
2003 (1 year 8 months)
$250,000
In support of capacity building and institutional strengthening of the Rwandan judiciary, including the traditional Gacaca courts.
1988 (1 year)
$102,397
To publish and distribute the ABA Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards.
1986 (1 year)
$67,711
To support an analysis of legal and policy issues involved in the privatization of corrections; to develop a handbook and model statute.
1982 (1 year)
$695,241
To support the Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards Project.
1981 (1 year)
$535,000
To support the Action Commission to Reduce Court Costs and Delay (over three years).
1980 (1 year)
$100,000
To support the ABA Action Commission to Reduce Court Costs and Delay.
1980 (1 year)
$304,759
To develop standards of criminal justice for the mentally disabled.
