Summer Research Diversity Fellowship Sponsorship Opportunities and Acknowledgements
2010 Sponsorship Opportunities
We are currently reviewing applications for our 2010 Summer Research Diversity Fellowships in Law and Social Science for Undergraduates. This year, we have over 100 exceptional applicants from around the nation.
As you may know, the American Bar Foundation is the nation’s leading research institute for the empirical study of law. Every summer our prize-winning research faculty hosts internships, through the Summer Research Diversity Fellowship program, for four highly qualified undergraduates from diverse backgrounds who have expressed interest in a career in the law.
We invite you and your firm to join us in supporting the diversity initiative of the American Bar Foundation. A dozen law firms have participated in and supported this program over the past three summers, in which we raised over $80,000 in support of twelve summer interns. We hope that your firm will join this list of supporters by contributing to the 2010 Summer Research Diversity Fellowships.
The goal for this year’s initiative is to reach $100,000 in contributions raised for this program, which will support four Summer Research Fellows and will provide a modest contribution to an endowment earmarked for the Summer Diversity Fellowship program. There are several ways in which your firm can contribute and be recognized:
- Leadership $ 10,000
- Partner $ 5,000
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Benefactor $ 2,500
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Patron $ 2,000
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Supporter $ 1,500
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Contributor $ 1,000
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Friend $ _____
For a Leadership level gift of $10,000, an intern will be designated the Your Firm Name Here Summer Research Fellow. All sponsoring firms will be invited to a recognition event where firm representatives will have a chance to interact with the four Summer Research Fellows. In addition, all contributing firms will be acknowledged in our Annual Report, our quarterly newsletter Researching Law, and on the ABF’s website.
Thank you for your consideration. If you would like more information about the Summer Fellowship Program or the American Bar Foundation, or if you would like to pledge your support to the program, please contact Tim Watson, Development Associate, at 312.988.6560 or gro.nfba@wmit.
2008 - 2010 SRDF Program Acknowledgements:
The ABF would like to thank the sponsors of the 2010 Summer Research Diversity Fellowships in Law & Social Science. They are:
Click here for information on the 2010 recipients.
The ABF would like to thank the sponsors of the 2009 Summer Research Diversity Fellowships in Law & Social Science. They are:
Click here for information on the 2009 recipients.
The ABF would like to thank the sponsors of the 2008 Summer Research Diversity Fellowships in Law & Social Science. They are:
The program, celebrating its 20th anniversary, is designed to introduce undergraduates from diverse backgrounds to the rewards and demands of a research-oriented career in the field of law and social science.
Click here for information on the 2008 recipients.