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The Florida Bar Foundation awards $10 million in grants
A complete list of grant recipients and grants can be found here. The Florida Bar Foundation awarded $1,467,000 in Children’s Legal Services grants, $1,081,000 in Administration of Justice grants…
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Family Law Section gives its third $75,000 gift to The Florida Bar Foundation
Florida Bar Foundation President Donny MacKenzie, left, and CEO Bruce Blackwell, right, accept a $75,000 check…
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Foundation-funded project protects the rights of chronically ill children to specialty care
Alex Rodriguez, 11, was one of five petitioners in a rule challenge brought by the Florida State University…
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Andre Bryant becomes 15th man exonerated by Innocence Project of Florida
Andre Bryant was reunited with his family Oct. 1 after spending eight years in prison for a robbery he…
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Foundation’s early investments in the fight against human trafficking continue to pay dividends
When her labor pains started, Jacinta Moreno, 15, pleaded to be taken to…
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Innocence Project of Florida achieves its 14th exoneration
Cheydrick Britt goes free after more than nine years of wrongful imprisonment Cheydrick Britt, second from right, with…
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Legal aid organizations struggle to retain attorneys cultivated by Bar Foundation and Equal Justice Works
From left, Florida Institutional Legal Services staff attorneys and former Equal Justice Works fellows Kristen Lentz, Cassandra Capobianco…
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Foundation helps fund newly formed Florida Innocence Commission
by Nancy Kinnally James Bain, 54, meets the press on Dec. 17, 2009, after being exonerated with the…
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Sarasota Young Lawyers reach out: Partnership brings civic education to area students
Stephanie Simmons’ American government students were among 40,000 in the Southwest Florida area who got an extra dose…
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Foundation grant helps demystify the bankruptcy process
In 2006, when then Florida Bar Foundation Secretary Kathleen McLeroy first heard about the uphill…
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Disproving guilt: The Innocence Project of Florida helps the wrongly convicted
Alan Crotzer celebrates after the Florida Legislature’s passage of a bill…
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