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Over the course of a given year, ABA ROLI implements over 100 distinct programs, often more than one in a given country, most of which are concentrated in one of four program areas Governance and Justice System Strengthening Human Rights and Access to Justice Transitions, Conflict Mitigation, and Peace-building and Inclusive and Sustainable Development. In Africa, ABA ROLI has been active in combating sexual and gender-based violence, pre-trial detention and modern-day slavery, as well as training judges and other court personnel, and building the capacity of local civil society organizations to advocate for citizens rights. Continued on Schedule O 7285615 1500 The Commission on Immigration focuses on safeguarding due process, promoting diminished reliance on detention, and improving access to qualified legal representation and legal information for individuals in immigration proceedings, including particularly vulnerable individuals such as unaccompanied children and individuals with mental illness. The Commission advocates for pertinent statutory and regulatory modifications in law and governmental practices, works to coordinate and strengthen the ABAs response to developments in immigration laws and policies, develops and assists the operation of border programs that promote high quality, effective legal representation for individuals in immigration proceedings, supports strengthening of detention standards and their adoption by regulation, and supports comprehensive immigration reform that addresses the need for an effective, credible and humane immigration strategy. Continued on Schedule O 3002162 892053 308026 The ABA Center on Children and the Laws mission is to promote access to justice for children and families. Examples of the programs and activities we carry out in support of our mission include the following grant funded projects The ABA Permanency Barriers Project seeks to reduce unnecessary time children spend in foster care before achieving permanency. To date, the project has served 57 counties in four states. Across all four states, the project has successfully reduced the time children spend in foster care by an average of nine months, realizing a positive impact on more than 3,000 childrens cases, and saving counties and states more than 30 million in foster care costs. The Project is currently active in several counties in Pennsylvania. The Capacity Building Center for Courts CBCC is a partnership of the ABA Center on Children and the Law, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the National Center for State Courts. 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Part IV Section A Line 3b The ABA, the supported organization is a 501c6 organizations, passes the public support test under Section 509a2 of the Internal Revenue Code. This is verified annually by the finance team. Part IV Section A Line 3c The FJE reviews the expenditures of the supported organization to ensure that the support given is use for charitable purposes described in IRS Section 170c2b. 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FJE is exempt under Section 501c3. FJE and other organizations do not have any material unrelated business income. Accordingly, no provision for income taxes has been made in the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended August 31, 2017 and 2016. There are no amounts of interest and penalties associated with the tax matters that are recognized in the ABAs consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended August 31, 2017 and 2016. XI 2d Investment Fees 84,750 XII 4b Pension allocation from ABA 1,450,671, Investment Fees 84,750. 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Each award is assigned a unique responsibility and line of business number to record, track, manage, monitor, and report all financial transactions. Our finance team monitors compliance to ensure financial transactions are prudent, reasonable, necessary, and allowable.Many of our grants are cooperative agreements which require substantial involvement and monitoring by the respective federal agency. Periodic on-site compliance monitoring reviews of subrecipient programs and financial operations is conducted. Further monitoring of findings is performed until deficiencies have been resolved. There is a daily review of cash management procedures to minimize the cash on hand.Monthly financial statements are submitted to senior managers and the executive team for review. Quarterly financial reports are presented to the Board of Governors. true American Tax Policy Institute 725 15th St NW Washington DC 20005 521660704 501C3 50000 Legal Aid Appellate Judges Education Institute PO Box 750112 Dallas TX 75275 920188525 501C3 54593 Legal Aid Florida International University 11200 SW 8th St CSC319 Miami FL 33199 650177616 501C3 10000 Legal Aid National Judical College Judicial College Bldg MS 358 Reno NV 89557 942427596 501C3 220000 Legal Aid New Orleans Bar Association (LA) 650 Poydras St 1505 New Orleans LA 70130 720272115 501C3 5500 Legal Aid National Center for State Courts 300 Newport Avenue Williamsburg VA 23185 520914250 501C3 237412 Legal Aid Nat'l Council of Juvenile & Family Ct Judges PO Box 8970 Reno NV 89507 362486896 501C3 185252 Legal Aid New Venture Fund 1201 Connecticut Ave NW Ste 300 Washington DC 20036 205806345 501C3 120000 Legal Aid Public Knowledge LLC 1911 SW Campus Dr Ste 457 Federal Way WA 98023 911439347 279000 Legal Aid 8 1 Educational Assistance 65 297500 Part I Line 2 Grant monitoring procedures are in place for all awards managed by The American Bar Associations Fund for Justice and Education FJE. Each award is assigned a unique responsibility and line of business number to record, track, manage, monitor, and report all financial transactions. Our finance team monitors compliance to ensure financial transactions are prudent, reasonable, necessary, and allowable. Many of our grants are cooperative agreements which require substantial involvement and monitoring by the respective federal agency. Periodic on-site compliance monitoring reviews of subrecipient programs and financial operations is conducted. Further monitoring of findings is performed until deficiencies have been resolved. There is a daily review of cash management procedures to minimize the cash on hand. Monthly financial statements are submitted to senior managers and the executive team for review. Quarterly financial reports are presented to the Board of Governors. X X X true false false false false false false false false Jack L Rives Executive Director Chief Operating Officer 907828 238857 3564 21708 1073 1173030 William K Phelan Sr Assoc. Executive Director CFO 353559 20840 865 21350 21214 417828 Elizabeth Andersen Assoc. Executive Director-ROLI 302770 12500 698 20025 206 336199 James Dimos Deputy Executive Director 330598 15000 1461 6506 15736 369301 Alpha Brady Sr. Assoc. Exec Director Chief Governance Officer 289313 15000 1250 7230 7023 319816 Robert Horowitz Director-Professional Services 212727 5000 1269 5288 810 225094 Jerome Kiska Deputy Chief Financial Officer 198593 8340 1208 16720 14538 239399 Robert La Mont Country Director-Rule of Law Initiative 191783 856 12795 13781 219215 William Klawonn Country Director-Rule of Law Initiative 176639 1288 6492 6574 20796 211789 Jeffrey Borns Country Director-Rule of Law Initiative 178627 5000 1044 9394 872 194937 Terrence Brooks Director-Legal Services 173555 1940 1027 5540 6899 188961 Part I Line 4a During FY2017, William Klawonn, Country Director, Rule of Law Initiative, received a severance payment in the amount of 5,782. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a In Asia, ABA ROLI has assisted in the modernization of courts, combating trafficking in persons, criminal law reform, anti-corruption efforts, and human rights protections. In Europe and Eurasia, ABA ROLIs activities have included promoting the rights of vulnerable populations, including LGBT, Roma, and domestic violence survivors supporting the implementation of criminal law reforms promoting access to justice improving legal and civic education supporting the development of a robust and responsive civil society and advancing the professionalism of the judiciary and the bar. In Latin America and the Caribbean, ABA ROLI has been focusing on assisting local partners in their transitions to modern criminal justice systems, including through training of judges, attorneys, police, law professors and students. ABA ROLI has also focused on building a culture of lawfulness and promoting reform of legal education and the legal profession. In the Middle East, ABA ROLI focuses on judicial and legal profession reform, legal education reform and civic education, promoting womens rights and combating corruption. More information about the ABA Rule of Law Initiatives work is available at www.abarol.org Form 990, Part III, Line 4b From January to October 2017, the Commission and its offsite projects presented 63 programs and trainings including a Midyear Meeting program, titled The First 100 Days Immigration at a Crossroads, Lives in the Balance. The Commission presented the panel Sanctuary Cities, Legitimate Law Enforcement Policy or Rogue Action on May 19, 2017 at the National Press Club. The panel featured the Chief of Police for the Montgomery County Police Department, Associate Director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and the Principal Legal Advisor for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement among others. The focus was to discuss how the concept of sanctuary cities has been reintroduced to the immigration debate in light of the current administrations requested cooperation of local jurisdictions with federal enforcement priorities. The Commission, through its Fight Notario Fraud Project, presented a panel titled Gaps in Data at the 3rd ABA UPL School on October 26, 2017. The focus of the panel was to explore ideas for gathering information on numbers and trends in the area of immigration consultant fraud. The Commission, along with the Unaccompanied Minor Immigrant UMI Working Group, convened the National Conference on Representation and Advocacy for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Houston, Texas on December 13-15, 2017. The conference presented three days of programming specific to the immigration practice of representing unaccompanied children and is the first conference of its kind in 9 years targeted towards the legal service provider community. The Childrens Immigration Law Academy, a project of the Commission, organized a organize a 3-day conference for 70 legal service providers to immigrant children. The conference took place in August 2017, and was held in coordination with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Form 990, Part III, Line 4c The CBCC team seeks to improve child safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for families by ensuring courts work in partnership with child welfare agencies to best serve children and families. The CBCC team hosted five regional Court Improvement Program grantee meetings throughout the country. These meetings brought together several hundred participants in total, and included state judges, court personnel, and child welfare agency staff from almost all fifty states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The two-day working meetings focused on initiatives that improve outcomes for children and families in the child welfare system in each state. In collaboration with the Education Law Center and the Juvenile Law Center, the ABA formed the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education to provide national advocacy on policy matters affecting the education of children in foster care. In 2017, the ABA Center developed a state-to-state technical assistance tool that will help states share information about how they implement federal provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act that support school stability for children and youth in foster care. The project also launched a new website focused on Educational Success for Youth in Juvenile Justice in 2017. The ABA Centers National Alliance for Parent Representation helps parent attorneys provide the highest quality representation so families involved in the child welfare system remain intact. This initiative includes an active listserv of over 1,100 members, a biennial national parent attorney conference, a series of leadership forums and training and technical assistance provided to parents attorneys. This project is currently working in Louisiana, North Carolina, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Iowa, and California. In partnership with other national organizations, the Center manages the Grandfamilies Project and website, Grandfamilies.org. This project provides legal resources for kin who care for children within and outside the child welfare system, and to professionals who serve kin as attorneys and policy advocates. In 2017, the ABA Center on Children and the Law published a wikiHow of Kinship Foster Care to help create a child welfare system that consistently promotes kinship placement, helps children in foster care maintain connections with their family, and tailors services and supports for kinship foster families. The project also re-launched its www.Grandfamilies.org website in 2017. In 2017, the ABA Center on Children and the Law launched the Family Justice Initiative FJI, a new grant-funded project that unites advocates for children and advocates for parents around a shared goal that every child, and every parent has high quality legal representation when child welfare courts make life changing decisions about their families. FJI is led by the ABA Center on Children and the Law in partnership with two other organizations and the volunteer support of more than 50 attorneys, judges, and researchers in the field who will assist the working groups. This year, the ABA Center on Children and the Law held its 17th National ABA Conference on Children and the Law and its 5th National Parent Attorney Conference as well as a preconference on the Indian Child Welfare Act and a preconference on the Intersection between Immigration Law and Child Welfare. There were close to 600 distinct registrants for the weeks events. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d FJE conducts several other programs including an accreditation program. The Council and the Accreditation Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar are recognized by the US Department of Education DOE as the national accrediting agency for programs that lead to the first professional degree in law. The law school accreditation process protects clients, the public and the courts by ensuring a sound legal education that prepares law students for admission to the Bar. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 The FJE is a fund of the American Bar Association ABA. The Board and Officers of the FJE are the Board and Officers of the ABA and its membership is the same as that of the ABA. The members of the Nominating Committee of the House of Delegates nominate the members of the Board of Governors, the elective offices of the Association which include the President Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chair of the House of Delegates. The President-elect automatically becomes the President at the next Annual Meeting after his/her election as President-elect. Members who register for the annual meeting elect six members of the House of Delegates. The House elects the Board of Governors, and the officers of the Association, including the President-elect, the Chair of the House of Delegates, the Secretary and Treasurer. Members may nominate officers and governors by presenting a nominating petition to the Secretary with the number of member signatures specified in the bylaws for each elected position. Members may initiate a referendum to change or initiate ABA policy by filing a petition with the requisite number of signatures. The House, by majority vote, can direct a referendum on a question relating to the substance of the law, the administration of justice or the policy of the Association. In either case, the majority of members casting a ballot determine the result. All members may attend the meetings of the House of Delegates and may submit a resolution with report for consideration by the House. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a The ABA House of Delegates elects the Board of Governors, and the officers which includes the President-elect, the Chair of the House of Delegates, the Secretary and Treasurer. The House is designed to be representative of the legal profession in the United States. Members of the Association who register for the annual meeting elect six delegates-at-large. ABA members of each state elect state delegates ABA members who belong to state and qualifying local Bar Associations also elect delegates, the number being dependent upon the number of ABA members and lawyers in the respective state or local association. Association members of ABA sections, divisions and eligible judicial conferences elect section/division delegates. Each section has a minimum of two delegates, with additional delegates dependent upon the number of members in each section. The U.S. Virgin Islands Bar Association, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Somoa elect a delegate. State, local and territorial bar associations elect delegates according to their own rules. For purposes of election to the Board, the House is grouped into nineteen geographical districts. Governors serve staggered three year terms the House elects approximately one-third of the Board, and the President-Elect at each annual meeting. The Board of Governors consists of one member from each of the 19 geographical districts, nine section members-at-large, one law student member-at-large, one judicial member-at-large, two young lawyer members-at-large, and five Goal III members-at-large. The President, Chair of the House, President-Elect, Immediate Past President, Secretary and Treasurer of the ABA are ex-officio members of the Board of Governors, Every third year the Treasurer-Elect is included in the Board of Governors. The House elects the Chair of the House for a two-year term in even-numbered years. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Prior to filing the return with the IRS, it is reviewed by the organizations management and subject to review by the Audit Committee. The final Form 990 is shared on a secure website with all members of the Board prior to filing the return with the IRS, sufficiently in advance of the due date to allow Board members the opportunity to raise questions or concerns, if any. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Each Board member received the Conflict of Interest COI questionnaire this year. All responses were reviewed by the Accounting team at the ABA. Prior to each Board meeting, staff assigned to the Board of Governors distribute COI forms to Board members and collect the completed COI forms. If a Board member discloses a conflict regarding a matter before the Board, the Board member must disclose the conflict and, if necessary, recuse himself/herself from any matter involving the disclosed conflict, and the recusal is noted in the minutes. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The top management position of the FJE is the Executive Director of the ABA. FJE relies on the Executive Compensation Committee of the ABA Board of Governors to review compensation information of comparable entities and the performance of the top management position and made a recommendation to the full ABA Board of Governors. The ABA Board of Governors approves the final compensation of the Executive Director of the American Bar Association. This process occurs every year and was last performed calendar year 2016. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b FJE relies on the Executive Compensation Committee of the ABA Board of Governors to review compensation information of comparable entities and the performance of other officers and key employees. When key employee positions become vacant, the compensation is reviewed by Associations Executive Director and the Human Resources department. This process occurs every year and was last performed in calendar year 2016. In the case of a vacancy occurring during the calendar year, the process occurs on an ad-hoc basis. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 19 The FJE Constitution Bylaws, business conduct standards including conflict of interest policy, and the audited financial statements are available upon request or on the ABA website. www.abanet.org Form 990, Part VII, Section A, Line 1 The ABA, a professional membership association for lawyers, established the FJE as a separate charitable fund to supports the public service and educational programs of the ABA. The FJE is not a separate incorporated legal entity other than to maintained its 501c3 tax exempt status. The FJEs bylaws require that FJE maintain its books and records separate and apart from the ABA. The ABA is the common paymaster and all employees working on FJE funded projects are reported under the ABAs payroll. FJE reimbursed ABA for compensation paid on its behalf. The key and top 5 highest paid employees primarily perform services for FJE. All compensations are reported on Col D even though ABA is the common paymaster. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Consulting Fees 8,157,775 Purchased Services 123,186 Indirect Cost Allocation 4,724,681 Total Program Expenses 13,005,642 Consulting Fees 2,483,033 Purchased Services 225,373 Indirect Cost Allocation 1,915,929 Total MG Expenses 4,624,334 Consulting Fees 44,160 Purchased Services 5,154 Total Fundraising Expense 49,314 Total Expenses 17,679,290 Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Pension allocation from a related organization 1,450,671. Total other changes in net assets or fund balances 1,450,671. 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