Annual Fund
You can make a difference in our legal community with a gift to The Chicago Bar Foundation
The Chicago Bar Foundation is the one place you can come together with your colleagues throughout the legal community to make a collective impact that none of us could on our own. The CBF is your resource and support for pro bono and related access to justice issues, your powerful collective voice on these issues, and your innovation lab for new pro bono and access to justice initiatives. Donors like you make the CBF’s work possible.
How can you strengthen innovation in our legal system?

Community Leadership
Addressing systemic issues that impact the entire pro bono and legal aid environment, and creates innovative solutions like the new Online Pro Bono Opportunities Guide

Legislative and Policy Advocacy
Giving our legal community a strong collective voice on access to justice issues, helping to make possible groundbreaking programs like the new Illinois Armed Forces Legal Aid Network

Court System Advocacy
Providing key assistance to the many thousands of people coming into the courts on their own through initiatives like the Resource Center for People without Lawyers in the Circuit Court of Cook County
Consider a gift to The Chicago Bar Foundation today!
Other Giving Options
All contributions to the CBF are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law and count towards the Illinois Supreme Court’s Pro Bono Reporting Rule.
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