Our Grants
IADC Foundation grantees reach millions of people – students, lawyers, workers, judges – with education and access to legal resources.
Current Grantees
Through its grantmaking, the IADC Foundation supports organizations around the world that advance the rule of law and expand access to a fair and just legal system.
Its current grant recipients include:
The IADC Foundation is providing a grant to the United Nations Office Against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to support their GRACE Initiative.
The objective of the GRACE (Global Resource for Anti-Corruption Education and Youth Empowerment) initiative is to promote a culture of integrity around the world, by employing a whole-of-society approach to prevent and counter corruption with a view to empower the next generation to become ethical leaders of tomorrow.
The GRACE initiative will bring to the international community knowledge and experience working with educators, academics, youth, and anti-corruption authorities to foster a culture of rejection of corruption.
IADC WEBINARS
IADC Webinars provide members, their colleagues, and their clients with valuable virtual educational opportunities. Webinars are one hour in length and offered complimentary.
FOUNDATION FORUM
The Foundation of the IADC sponsors a special forum on major topics of interest each year at the IADC Midyear Meeting.
Past speakers have included Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.; Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; Minnesota State Supreme Court Justice Alan C. Page; legal analyst Roger Cossack; National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg; Senator George J. Mitchell; Harvard law professor Arthur R. Miller; former FBI Director William Steele Sessions; former Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco; former Deputy Solicitor General and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr; and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
iCivics was founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2009 to ensure that all Americans have the knowledge and skills to participate in our unique experiment in self-government.
Today, iCivics is the nation’s leading provider of and advocate for meaningful high-quality, nonpartisan civic education used by 145,000 educators to teach 9 million students in all 50 states. iCivics envisions a thriving American democracy supported by informed and civically engaged young people.
Visit the iCivics website to learn more. To learn more about what is happening in your state, visit the CivxNow (a project of iCivics) State Affiliate page.
Justice Without Borders provides transnational legal assistance for victims of labor exploitation and human trafficking, primarily migrant workers, in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They enable victims to seek rightful compensation from their abusers, even after returning home. They also drive groundbreaking civil litigation that turns the extraordinary of cross-border compensation claims into the ordinary. As a regional organization, they work with frontline aid organizations, caseworkers, government agencies, law firms, lawyers, law students, legal aid associations, and university clinical legal education programs.
The National Foundation for Judicial Excellence (NFJE) joins bar associations, law schools, think tanks, and other non-profit organizations that strive to strengthen and preserve the civil justice system. Their mission is to address important legal policy issues affecting the law and civil justice system by providing meaningful support and education to the judiciary. They do this by publishing scholarly works and by engaging in other efforts to continually enhance and ensure judicial excellence and fairness for all engaged in the judicial process. For the past 22 years, NFJE has hosted an annual judicial symposium to which it invites all state court appellate judges from around the country to attend. NFJE covers the expenses for the judges to attend, and it is proud to say that more than 3,600 judges from almost all 50 states have attended its program.
National High School Mock Trial Championship, Inc. and its membership engage thousands of high school students who gain skills and confidence as we pursue our mission to promote an understanding and appreciation of the American judicial system through academic competitions and other endeavors for students. The annual National Championship takes place each May and currently welcomes teams from 46 that include states, territories, and South Korea.
To help support high school students in their efforts throughout the year on their mock trial teams, the IADC Foundation has a YouTube channel with videos on key components of the trial with tips and techniques to help students succeed.
The ILF was founded to address the global crisis in access to justice. Its mission is to make justice a reality for poor people by fighting to guarantee high-quality legal representation for everyone arrested or detained. Every day, millions of men, women, and children are held in jails around the world because they cannot afford a lawyer to defend them. Without legal representation, many face torture or other abuses, languish behind bars for years awaiting trial, or are wrongfully convicted. The denial of access to legal aid, and a lack of qualified criminal defense lawyers, particularly impacts poor and otherwise vulnerable populations who are disproportionately arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated. Over the past two decades, the ILF has established a practical and effective approach to meet the urgent need for quality criminal defense in diverse legal systems.
From the ground up, the ILF trains and empowers lawyers to be proactive advocates capable of providing high-quality criminal defense services. Case by case, ILF lawyers transform their criminal justice systems and strengthen the rule of law. At the same time, the ILF works with governments and organizations to build sustainable, effective legal aid institutions. The ILF also performs high-level advocacy, pushing countries, international institutions, and donors to prioritize legal aid as a fundamental human right and as crucial to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Make an Impact
Support the initiatives of the IADC Foundation and help advance programs that strengthen the civil justice system, expand legal education, and foster global collaboration.