• The Innocence Project. The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
  
  
• Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama. The Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama is a private, nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. EIJ litigates on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.
  
  
• The National Institute for Trial Advocacy. NITA offers the same high-caliber training it provide to the nation's largest firms to legal service attorneys, public defenders, and attorneys who have chosen to work in child advocacy, tribal law, death penalty defense, immigration, domestic violence and other vital areas of public interest. Through its Spangenberg Scholarships (named after the Barristers Society's first president, Craig Spangenberg), the Foundation makes it possible for public interest lawyers and sole practitioners to attend NITA's hands-on advocacy training programs.
  
  
• Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children. CASA recruits and trains some 70,000 volunteers to serve as advocates for abused and neglected children within the child welfare system. CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children, to make sure they don't get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in an inappropriate group or foster home. Volunteers stay with each case until it is closed and the child is placed in a safe, permanent home.
  
  
• New Orleans Pro Bono Project. The Pro Bono Project's recruits volunteer attorneys to work on a pro bono basis to provide quality civil legal services to indigent clients in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Tammany and Washington parishes.
  

Contributions may be made on line through this web page or sent to:

International Society of Barristers Foundation
Professor Donald H. Beskind
312 West Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

All gifts will be acknowledged, and, in the case of memorial or honoring gifts, the Foundation will notify the individuals or families involved.