About the Access to Justice Campaign
Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC)
Legal Aid of
North Carolina
(LANC) completed its inaugural three-year, statewide Access to
Justice Campaign in June 2009, having achieved significant results. With strong support from the private bar, communities, and
volunteers throughout the state, LANC met its goal of raising
$1,000,000 in the first three years. These funds will enhance
the lives of North
Carolina's most economically vulnerable
households by providing free, critical civil legal services.
In 2009, LANC staff and volunteers decided to increase our
three-year goal to $1.5 million to
be raised from individuals and law firms across the state through
our Access to Justice (A2J) Campaign. This was an ambitious
increase given the economic crisis, but the centralization of the
campaign process made this goal more manageable. We
streamlined the campaign, using the staff and resources in our main
office to help the staff in smaller LANC offices organize effective
local campaigns. By centralizing, we were able to grow the A2J
Campaign without affecting the capacity of local offices to provide
high quality legal services to clients.
In 2010, The North Carolina Bar Association’s president, John Wester,
decided to convene an Access to Justice Leadership Council
made up of local leaders from selected communities across the state.
These are communities in which there is clearly a lot of potential
to enhance our private bar campaign: Fayetteville,
Greenville, Morganton,
Pittsboro, Wilmington and Wilson.
The funds we are raising through A2J will enable LANC to address
more of the critical legal needs of our clients. LANC offers
powerful solutions to the most vexing legal problems confronting
low-income North Carolinians. LANC’s mortgage foreclosure prevention
efforts—as well as legal services for senior citizens, children,
people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence and
veterans—are more essential now than ever. In 2009, we served
nearly 25,000 North Carolinians. There are over 3.2 million
persons financially eligible for our services in our state, or
nearly 35% of the population.
The Access to Justice Campaign has generated financial support from
individuals and law firms, as well as from the North Carolina Bar
Association, local bar associations, and leading North Carolina
corporations. All 24 LANC offices benefit financially from
this statewide model. In addition, the Campaign provides
important benefits beyond the generous contributions received.
The Campaign has raised awareness of the vital services LANC
provides in communities across the state.
The momentum of our Campaign was also a factor in the
NC Bar
Association’s successful “4ALL Campaign." Begun in 2007,
the 4ALL Campaign is a strategic effort to raise awareness, funds,
and volunteers for legal services. The “4ALL” effort led to the
establishment of the
LANC Endowment Fund, which raised over $900,000 in its first two
years and helps secure a more permanent financial base for the
long-range future of LANC. The NC Bar Association Foundation
gave LANC an unprecedented $100,000 donation. In addition,
LANC has set up an endowment fund through the
North Carolina Community Foundation, through which we can pursue
increased corporate donations toward our sustainability.
As part of the 2009–2010 A2J Campaign, young lawyers in the Triad
organized to encourage their peers to actively support Legal Aid of
North Carolina. Their efforts during the first
“Triad Associates’ Drive” increased donor participation
statewide by 10% percent.
Together with our supporters across the state, LANC raised over
$350,000 in 2009–2010 via the Access to Justice Campaign in order to
support the critical legal services our offices provide across North
Carolina.
The 2011 Access to Justice Campaign runs from
November 2010 to March 2011, culminating on the annual
4-ALL Statewide Day of Service on Friday March 4, 2011.
Together with our supporters, LANC plans to raise $1.5
million over the next three years to support the critical
legal services our offices provide across North Carolina.
"Thank You" to our A2J Campaign Leadership!!!
We had a great year in 2009-10 under the statewide leadership
of Janet Ward Black (Ward Black Law)
and Reid C. "Cal" Adams, Jr.
(Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC)
Our Triad Area Campagin was chaired by
Afi S. Johnson-Parris (The Law Office of Afi Johnson-Parris, PLLC
) and Gerard
H. Davidson, Jr. (Smith
Moore Leatherwood, LLP
). Our Triangle Campaign was chaired by
John I. Mabe, Jr. (Williams Mullen)
and
John L. Sarratt (Harris, Winfield, Sarratt & Hodges, LLP.
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THANKS
to the 1,200+ DONORS in the
2009-10 Access to Justice Campaign
Special Thanks to our
CHARTER CONTRIBUTORS
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"Justice will not come
until those who are not injured
are as indignant as those who are injured."
Thucydides
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Mission Statement
Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm
that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income
people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove
legal barriers to economic opportunity.