Introducing the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts

The Chicago Council of Lawyers founded the Fund for Justice in 1970 as part of their mission to help lawyers demand fairness and effectiveness in the justice system. In 1997, Fund for Justice began its collaboration with the Appleseed Network and Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice was...
January 6, 2021

Thank You for a Successful End of the Year Fundraising Campaign

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our end of the year campaign! We successfully met our goal to receive an anonymous donor’s $40,000 matching funds. Your donations ranged from $20 to a very generous $10,000 and totaled $50,200 for the campaign. We appreciate every single donation. When you part...
January 5, 2017

Giving Tuesday is Here!

Today, Tuesday November 29th is Giving Tuesday. Research into individual charitable giving shows that giving is a fundamentally social act. A 2004 study found that our impulse to give is stronger when we see our friends or people we admire donating, and a 2014 Red Cross survey shows that we give wh...
November 29, 2016

Why Our Staff has Chosen Chicago Appleseed

Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, the social media celebration of charitable giving. We'd like to take a moment to share with you why our staff attorneys has chosen to work with Chicago Appleseed and thank you for supporting their advocacy.   Ali Abid, Staff Attorney and Criminal Justice Policy Ana...
November 28, 2016

The Value of Your Support

#GivingTuesday is next week and we're celebrating the successes funded through your donations. Here are four things your donations supported this fall at Chicago Appleseed. We had a major victory in preserving and expanding the hearing officer program in the domestic relations/child support cour...
November 25, 2016
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