Many nonprofits use occasional pro bono assistance. But the Appleseed Network works to build and customize every project around the expertise and support of its pro bono partners. Partners participate in conception, design, and execution of projects at the national, state, and local level. They lead research, analysis, advocacy, public education, and litigation work. Pro Bono partners dramatically multiply the power of locally-led research, advocacy and litigation projects for social justice.
The Appleseed Network organizes its collective work through five different project areas, each guided by a Working Group composed of expert staff from Appleseed Centers and network board members. These project areas include criminal and juvenile justice reform; protecting the rights and assets of immigrant families; advancing education and protecting vulnerable youth; access to justice, good government and democracy; and combating poverty and building assets.
Appleseed’s Pro Bono Partners have contributed to major projects and helped us win victories all over the country and in Mexico including, but not limited to:
To learn more and get involved, please contact us via email or by calling 202.905.2788.
The Appleseed Network organizes its collective work through five different project areas, each guided by a Working Group composed of expert staff from Appleseed Centers and network board members. These project areas include criminal and juvenile justice reform; protecting the rights and assets of immigrant families; advancing education and protecting vulnerable youth; access to justice, good government and democracy; and combating poverty and building assets.
Appleseed’s Pro Bono Partners have contributed to major projects and helped us win victories all over the country and in Mexico including, but not limited to:
- Revising Appleseed’s “Deportation Manual” that helps immigrants prepare their families, finances, and personal property for the potential cataclysm of deportation.
- Helping to create America’s first “Breakfast after the Bell” law in New Mexico, which fights hunger by reducing the stigma felt by poor children who receive free school breakfasts.
- Working with Appleseed to make the case for and win reforms to payday lending and title loan laws in numerous states and at the national level.
- Providing research and economic analysis to help secure transparency and fair pricing consistency for immigrant consumers who send money abroad.
- Providing research, litigation, and lobbying support to help Texas become the 49th state to decriminalize truancy.
To learn more and get involved, please contact us via email or by calling 202.905.2788.
Below is a select list of pro bono partners we have worked with over the years.
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AARP
ACE Rule of Law Akerman Adams & Reese AFL-CIO Akin Gump Arent Fox Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Arnold & Porter Baker & Mckenzie Ballard Spahr Berk Law Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Columbia University Cooley Covington & Burling LLP Davis Wright Tremaine Dechert DeGuerre Law Firm, P.C. Dewey & LeBoeuf DLA Piper Dorsey & Whitney LLP Dykema Edgeworth Economics |
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
FINRA Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. GE Gibson Dunn Harkins Cunningham Hogan Lovells Huron Consulting Group Jáuregui y Navarrete, S. C. JBG Rosenfeld Jenner & Block Jones Day K&L Gates King & Spalding LLP Language Works Inc. Latham & Watkins Lee & Associates NYC Lowenstein Sandler PC Mayer Brown Maynard Cooper & Gale PC Montgomery Barnett LLP Morrison & Foerster Nixon Peabody Norton Rose Fulbright O’Melveny & Myers |
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Polsinelli Schulte Roth & Zabel Shearman & Sterling Sheppard Mullin Sherin and Lodgen Sidley Austin Sierra Real Estate Simpson Thacher Skadden Arps Squire Patton Boggs Sprint Steptoe & Johnson StoneTurn Group Thaler Pekar & Partners The Futures Company The Raben Group UnidosUS Weil Gotshal White & Case LLP Wiley Rein LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP William Alanson White Institute Wilmer Hale |
