Foundation Grants

The IADC Foundation supports a variety of organizations and projects through grants. The Foundation Board recently updated its grant vetting process to ensure it has a diverse and wide-reaching portfolio of grants for organizations around the world that support the rule of law and access for all to a fair and just legal system.

Its current grant recipients include:

Justice Without Borders

Justice Without Borders provides transnational legal assistance for victims of labor exploitation and human trafficking, primarily migrant workers, in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They enable victims to seek rightful compensation from their abusers, even after returning home. They also drive groundbreaking civil litigation that turns the extraordinary of cross-border compensation claims into the ordinary. As a regional organization, they work with frontline aid organizations, caseworkers, government agencies, law firms, lawyers, law students, legal aid associations, and university clinical legal education programs.

GRACE Initiative

The IADC Foundation previously provided a grant to the United Nations Office Against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to support their Education for Justice campaign. The Education for Justice campaign is a multi-year program to create games and resources for youth around the world to teach them how to be good citizens, teach them coping strategies, and help keep them out of gangs and terrorist groups that often prey on vulnerable young people.

Building on the success of the Education for Justice (E4J) and Anti-Corruption Academic (ACAD) initiatives, UNODC launched the Global Resource for Anti-Corruption Education and Youth Empowerment (GRACE) initiative to promote further the role of education and youth empowerment in preventing and countering corruption. The Foundation is currently supporting this effort.

The GRACE initiative will bring to the international community knowledge and experience working with educators, academics, youth, and anti-corruption authorities to foster a culture of rejection of corruption.

IADC Webinars

IADC Webinars provide members, their firms, and their clients with valuable educational opportunities. The IADC presents approximately 15 Webinars annually, all one hours in length and complimentary. 

National Foundation for Judicial Excellence

The National Foundation for Judicial Excellence (NFJE) joins bar associations, law schools, think tanks, and other non-profit organizations that strive to strengthen and preserve the civil justice system. Their mission is to address important legal policy issues affecting the law and civil justice system by providing meaningful support and education to the judiciary. They do this by publishing scholarly works and by engaging in other efforts to continually enhance and ensure judicial excellence and fairness for all engaged in the judicial process.

National High School Mock Trial Championship

The National High School Mock Trial Championship allows thousands of high school students to gain skills and confidence as well as a respect and understanding of the rule of law. A tournament takes place annually and typically includes a total of 46 teams.

To help support high school students in their efforts throughout the year on their mock trial teams, the IADC Foundation has a YouTube channel with videos on key components of the trial with tips and techniques to help students succeed.

iCivics

Spearheaded by the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics is a web-based education project designed to reinvigorate civics teaching and learning. iCivics features free lesson plans, interactive modules, and games. With these tools, iCivics empowers the first generation of ‘digital natives’ to become knowledgeable civic participants and leaders. 7.6-9 million+ students (mostly middle and high school students) and 122,000-145,000 active educators rely on iCivics for its curriculum annually.

Read the 2025 progress report highlighting how far they have come and what goals they are working towards.

The IADC Foundation is working with the assistance of IADC members to promote iCivics and bring it into classrooms across the United States. Lawyers interested in helping with iCivics should visit the iCivics website for more information and a guide for volunteering in the classroom.

International Legal Foundation

The ILF was founded to address the global crisis in access to justice. Every day, millions of men, women, and children are held in jails around the world because they cannot afford a lawyer to defend them. Without legal representation, many face torture or other abuses, languish behind bars for years awaiting trial, or are wrongfully convicted.  

The denial of access to legal aid, and a lack of qualified criminal defense lawyers, particularly impacts poor and otherwise vulnerable populations who are disproportionately arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated. Over the past two decades, the ILF has established a practical and effective approach to meet the urgent need for quality criminal defense in diverse legal systems.

From the ground up, they train and empower lawyers to be proactive advocates capable of providing high-quality criminal defense. Case by case, ILF lawyers transform the criminal justice system and strengthen the rule of law.