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Make check payable to "Civil Justice Foundation" and send it to:

Edward L. Chester
Civil Justice Foundation
1050 31st Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007

Honor Roll of Champions Members give annually at one of these levels:

• $1,000 - Champion
• $2,500 - Advocate
• $5,000 - Counsellor
• $10,000 - Barrister

Grassroots members give between $200 and $999 annually

The Civil Justice Foundation provides a virtual lifeline to the activists and advocates on the front lines of injury prevention and justice preservation. It is the only national foundation devoted solely to protecting the individual rights, health, and well-being of the injured, providing small but significant grants to groups working to help injured people rebuild their lives or to prevent injuries from occurring. Funds collected by the Foundation from generous private donors go directly to the grassroots organizations fighting these battles across the country.

The foundation began in 1986 by members of the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) as a way to provide vital funding for grassroots consumer advocacy groups. To date, the Foundation has awarded more than $1,000,000 to more than 100 organizations. However, private donations are essential for maintaining this critical support.

As founder and first chair Roxanne Conlin (named by the National Law Journal as one of the fifty most influential women lawyers in America and one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America) points out, the foundation exists only because AAJ (formerly ATLA) lawyers contribute regularly and generously. The association itself makes an annual contribution, which pays the foundation's administrative expenses, and virtually every cent individuals contribute goes directly to progressive organizations across the country.

The Civil Justice Foundation has 2 categories of annual membership - Honor Roll of Champions Members and Grassroots Members. The Civil Justice Foundation Memorial also has created a Matching Grant program that is designed to help Foundation contributors maximize a memorial contribution to the Foundation. There are multiple options for donating and your contribution could be tax-deductible – help give injury activists a voice today.

Ms. Conlin encourages those who can to donate generously to the Foundation:

“At the very beginning, we decided that the logo for the Civil Justice Foundation should be a tree, fruitful and flourishing, offering shelter and protection to all. This symbol evokes the best in us as trial lawyers who know that our responsibility for helping others does not end when the case does.

Defending the civil justice system, which provides compensation to our clients, is a sacred trust. We understand the deterrent effect of individual lawsuits, but we know that, as trial lawyers, we usually are called upon after the harm has occurred. For us, injury prevention is not abstract. We know the victims of torts. We know their names; we hear their voices; we see their faces; we share their pain. We truly do care.

The Civil Justice Foundation gives us the opportunity to express our commitment to injury prevention in a real way. Be a champion of justice both in and out of the courtroom. Join the Civil Justice Foundation.”