Message from Barbara Moses
President of the NYCLA Foundation
Dear Friends:
As the holidays approach, the NYCLA Foundation's annual appeal for the Second Century Fund is in full swing. On behalf of the Foundation-the fundraising arm of NYCLA-I ask you to help NYCLA protect access to justice for all New Yorkers, improve our court system, provide crucial pro bono services to low-income New Yorkers, assist unemployed and under-employed lawyers to get back on their feet - and preserve and modernize our beautiful headquarters building, where much of this work takes place.
Your dues, unfortunately, do not cover all of NYCLA's programs and services. We depend on your contributions to carry out the programs that make us proud to be members of NYCLA. The good news is that relatively modest donations go a long way at NYCLA. For example:
- $2,500 provides a fellowship to a young public interest lawyer struggling to pay his or her law school debt.
- $1,000 pays for one of the new computer terminals in the NYCLA Library.
- $500 underwrites the top award in our annual public high school essay contest.
- $100 supports our Legal Counseling Project, providing pro bono legal advice to needy New Yorkers.
You can make donations in these amounts - or in any amount you choose - simply by clicking here or by going to www.nycla.org and choosing "Giving to NYCLA." You can mail a check, payable to the "NYCLA Foundation," to NYCLA Foundation, 14 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10007. We are grateful for every contribution and are pleased to say "thank you" with a selection of DVDs, books, prints and other gifts, described on our website.
Since the NYCLA Foundation is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization, gifts are deductible to the extent provided by law.
NYCLA needs your support. Please join me in giving what you can.
Sincerely,
Barbara Moses
President of the NYCLA
Foundation