YOUNG PROFESSIONALS BOARD GRANTS

Fat Tuesday Challenge Grants

$11,000

Grants made on behalf of winners of various challenge events held in conjunction with the 7th Annual Fat Tuesday Challenge co-hosted by the CBF Young Professionals Board and the Greater Chicago Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators.

The Pro Bono Project of New Orleans                                                       (special grant to provide assistance to Hurricane Katrina victims)

$5,500
Equip for Equality $1,000

Chicago Coalition for the Homess - Law Project

$500
Families' & Children's AIDS Network - Family Options Project $500
Health & Disability Advocates $500
Midwest Center on Law & the Deaf  $500
Public Interest Law Initiative $500
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic $250
Illinois Legal Aid Online $250
Lawyers for the Creative Arts $250
Life Span Center for Legal Services & Advocacy $250
National Immigrant Justice Center $250
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers $150
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services $150

Evanston Community Defender

$150

Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic

$100
Center for Economic Progress - Midwest Tax Clinic $100
Farmworker Advocacy Project $100

 

Illinois Legal Aid Online

(to support the development of a traffic court video produced in partnership with the CBA's YLS)

 

$12,000

Constitutional Rights Foundation

(to support the development of a mock trial video and to support the Chicago Lawyers in the Classroom Program at the Goudy School and other schools in the Chicago area)

$10,000

CBA YLS Law Explorers Program

(special grant from CBF Gray Fund)

$4,500

 

CBA Young Lawyers Section

(for the development and printing of YLS’ “Your Guide to the Law" brochure) 

$2,000

 

CBA Young Lawyers Section

(for the Goudy School)

 $1,000

 

TOTAL:  $40,500

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