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Greetings and welcome to the California Bar Foundation. We are thrilled to present you more information about the California Bar Foundation. As the center of philanthropy for the California legal community, we are the only statewide foundation focused on increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in the State Bar of California.

This packet contains overviews of our Grants Program, Diversity Scholarship Program, Diversity in the Public Interest – Bar Exam Scholarship Program and Annual Giving Program.

We also have included biographies of several scholarship recipients and a full listing of our 2014 Scholars and Grant Recipients. There is also a list of our board members and overview of our generous sponsors. We invite you to join us in 2015 by

• Underwriting a scholarship • Becoming a Friend of the California Bar Foundation by sponsoring

our annual Scholarship & Award Ceremony • Underwriting our Grants Program • Making a gift to our Annual Fund Program

Thanks for taking time to read through these materials. If you have any questions or need additional information, please e-mail or call me. Look forward to meeting you in-person soon and, again, thanks for taking time to learn more about the California Bar Foundation. With my kindest regards –

Joe Swimmer Director of Development and Communications [email protected] 415.856.0790

Underwriting Commitment Form We commit to a 2015 Diversity Scholarship for a payment of $10,000.

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Please make your contribution payable to the California Bar Foundation. Payment is due by close of our fiscal year on December 31, 2015.

Please return this form along with payment to: Carlos Aguilar, Development & Operations Associate, California Bar Foundation, 180 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Building a Diverse & Inclusive California Bar The California Bar Foundation is committed to building a California State Bar representative of the communities it serves. Our Diversity Scholars include law students from non-majority backgrounds; some raised in the foster care system; some surviving life-altering health problems; and some enduring childhoods filled with poverty. Our Commitment Our Diversity Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to rising first-year law students from communities underrepresented in Californiaʼs legal profession. With ever-rising law school costs – average law school debt is now above $100,000 – the need has never been greater.

Diversity Scholarship Recipients

2015 Diversity Scholarship Underwriting

The Diversity Scholarship First-year law students at California law schools with financial need and a demonstrable interest in making an impact in their community are eligible for scholarships of $7,500. Last year, the California Bar Foundation funded 33 Diversity Scholars. Your Invitation As an organization sharing our commitment to a diverse and inclusive legal profession we invite you to underwrite a Diversity Scholarship. Your financial equitable commitment of $10,000 provides a law student from an underrepresented community with funds to cover tuition, books and fees as they begin their legal career. Your organizationʼs benefits include:

• Prominent placement and recognition in media and marketing materials • Tickets to and recognition at our Annual Scholarship Reception • Mentorship opportunity with your named scholars • Recognition as a member of the Foundationʼs Leadership Circle in our Annual Report and on our website

Words cannot fully describe how grateful I am, and will forever be. I managed to pay my full tuition bill, and pay for gas to get me to school.

This past semester, I excelled and I shined. I was so challenged especially by my Contracts law class, and as a result, I grew…Even some of my

professors have taken me aside to tell me, "You will be a great lawyer."

2014 DIVERSITY SCHOLAR

Pledge Commitment Form We commit to underwriting a 2015 Diversity Scholarship for a payment of $10,000.


e-Mail and Phone

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Name listed in recognition materials

Please make your contribution payable to the California Bar Foundation.

Payment is due by close of our fiscal year on December 31, 2015.


Client Underwriting Diversity Scholarship Program

Clients demand that outside counsel demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion and staff legal teams with diverse and inclusive legal professionals. Your clients expect outside counsel to represent the community at large. Demonstrate your commitment to a diverse and inclusive legal profession through our new Client Underwriting Diversity Scholarship program. This program allows a firm to underwrite a Diversity Scholarship in honor of a valued client or business associate. Your firmʼs financial commitment increases our capacity to meet the financial needs of students from diverse backgrounds as they begin law school while honoring a valued client and strengthening the firm/client relationship. The Diversity Scholarship Our Diversity Scholarship offers a rising first year California law student from a traditionally underrepresented community a financial head start on covering the ever-increasing costs of a legal education. Your firmʼs Diversity Scholarship underwritten on behalf of a valued client helps a law student focus on studying rather than worrying about how to cover tuition, fees or books. The Benefits to Your Organization Significantly, your firmʼs Diversity Scholarship honors a valued client and builds stronger client relationships, as you continue the work of building a diverse and inclusive California legal profession. Benefits include:

• Prominent placement and recognition in media and marketing materials for you and your client • Tickets to and recognition at our Annual Scholarship Reception for you and your client • Mentorship opportunity with your named scholars • Recognition of you and your client as a member of the Foundationʼs Leadership Circle in our

Annual Report and on our website

We invite you to underwrite and name a California Bar Foundation Diversity Scholarship in honor of valued clients.

The Client Underwriting Diversity Scholarship is a meaningful way for us as a firm to develop client relationships and honor our

general counsel clients. This program is more attractive than purchasing a table to an event or other similar opportunities.

Our client really gets a chance to connect with a student from an underrepresented community. CMO - AmLaw 50 Law Firm


2014 Diversity Scholars

Carlos Almendarez Gibson Dunn & Frederick and Christine Brown Scholar UCLA School of Law Deborah Awolope UPS® Diversity Scholar underwritten by Morrison & Foerster LLP UC Hastings College of the Law Carlos Barba Fenwick & West LLP Scholar Santa Clara University School of Law Rebecca Berry Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Scholar USC Gould School of Law Jordyn Bishop Pacific Gas & Electric Company Scholar UC Hastings College of the Law Andrea Campos Arnold & Porter LLP Scholar USF School of Law Feriel Chebouli Margarita V. Rosenthal Memorial Scholar Golden Gate University School of Law Jasmin Ellis-Logan Manatt Scholar USC Gould School of Law Katherine Figueroa Milstein Adelman LLP Scholar Loyola Law School Lydia Galbreath Intel Diversity Scholar underwritten by WilmerHale LLP UC Berkeley School of Law Claudia Garcia-Robledo Kirkland & Ellis LLP Scholar Southwestern Law School

Blessing Havana Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP Scholar Whittier Law School Ana Henderson-Arjona Dentons US LLP Scholar UC Berkeley School of Law Elizabeth Hercules-Paez Pillsbury Scholar UC Irvine School of Law Alejandra (Mirta) Jimenez Downey Brand Scholar UCLA School of Law Tahmina Mohammad AlvaradoSmith Scholar UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) Mariagnee Moreno SDG&E & SoCalGas Scholar Whittier Law School Shannon Myricks Toyota Motors Sales USA Scholar underwritten by Loeb & Loeb LLP UCLA School of Law Quinn Nguyen Girardi | Keese Scholar Loyola Law School Monica Ponce de Leon The Sidley Austin Foundation Scholar Southwestern Law School Ebony Randolph Keesal Young & Logan Scholar Southwestern Law School Rae Raucci California Bar Foundation Board of Directors San Francisco Law School Oliver Rodriguez Kilpatrick Townsend Scholar University of San Diego School of Law

Damaris Santamaria Hogan Lovells US LLP Southwestern Law School Viola So Keker & Van Nest LLP Scholar UC Hastings College of the Law Billie Solomon The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Scholar UC Berkeley School of Law Tiara Tahmizian Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Foundation Scholar USC Gould School of Law Meigan Thompson Southern California Edison Scholar UC Irvine School of Law Delvin Turner Latham & Watkins Scholar UCLA School of Law Darris Upton-Stuart ALM/Legal Malpractice Guide Scholar Southwestern Law School Vivian Wong Lim Ruger Foundation Scholar UCLA School of Law Winnie Wong Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation Scholar UC Berkeley School of Law Sika Yeboah-Sampong Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton Scholar UCLA School of Law

Jordyn Biship is a first-year student at University of California, Hastings College of Law. Jordyn received a California Bar Foundation Diversity Scholarship in 2014. Motivated by the devastating hardships her family suffered, she plans to use her law degree to represent clients coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. A top performer in college, Jordyn worked her way through California State University, East Bay. She is proud to be the first in her family to graduate from college. Jordyn is already pursuing her goals of representing the disenfranchised and disadvantaged. She is working towards a practice in Indian law, family law and youth advocacy, and in the summer between first and second year she is gaining valuable real-world experience. For this summer, Jordyn will work with the Lakota Peopleʼs Law Project in South Dakota. This agency advocates for the rights of Lakota parents and families. Jordyn has followed this agencyʼs work for many years. She is eager to gain experience in Indian and family law through this summer internship. “My family and I continue to be proud and grateful that I was chosen as a recipient of the California Bar Foundation Diversity Scholarship,” Jordyn said. “Receiving this award is allowing me to pursue opportunities in pro bono work and internship programs that I am passionate about, but without this help couldnʼt hope to pursue.”

Diversity Recipient Biography

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California), Name Name (Pacific Gas & Electric); Jordyn Bishop (Pacific Gas & Electric Company Scholar)

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Friends of The California Bar Foundation

Underwriting Level:

Partner $500 Lead Partner $1000 Sponsor $1500

Lead Sponsor $2500 Underwriter $5000 Presenting Underwriter $10,000 Name listed in recognition materials:

Please make your contribution payable to the California Bar Foundation.

Payment is due by close of our fiscal year on December 31, 2015.


Thank you for investing in the mission of the California Bar Foundation. The California Bar Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization for both federal and state tax purposes. Tax ID# 94-31045

Supporting our Scholarship and Awards Ceremony helps build a diverse and inclusive California legal profession by funding our Grants Program. Our Grants Program supports diversity pipeline and rural access legal service organizations. Underwriting entitles your organization to:

• Special recognition as a valued underwriter of our Scholarship and Awards Ceremony based on sponsorship level We recognize law firm and corporate donors making gifts of at least $500 as Partners with other levels available. We publicize all Partners, Sponsors and Underwriters on the donor roll of our website, through social media, in our Annual Report and in special advertisements in various legal and business publications like The Recorder

• The $2500 for 25 program We are launching a special recognition program for any organization committing $2500 or more in honor of the beginning of our 25th Anniversary. Additional recognition, tickets and marketing opportunities are provided to these donors.

• Recognition as members of the Leadership Circle and dedicated supporters of our Scholarship and Grants programs You receive special recognition as members of our Leadership Circle at the event, in our ceremony program and on our website. You will receive tickets to and be publicly acknowledged during the reception on September 17, 2015, in San Francisco, CA.


Friends of The California Bar Foundation – 2015 Scholarship and Awards Ceremony Underwriting

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Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association BALIF Bingham McCutchen LLP BNY Mellon Wealth Management Brown-Forman Corporation Caldwell Leslie & Proctor, PC City National Bank Clorox Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP Consumer Attorneys Public Interest Foundation Cornerstone Research CourtCall Remote Court Appearances Davis Wright Tremaine Durie Tangri LLP EPIC Equal Justice Society Equal Rights Advocates Farella Braun + Martell, LLP Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Gilardi Girardi | Keese Golden Gate University School of Law Goodwin Procter LLP HBO Intel JAMS Lang Richert & Patch Lord Locke Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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Mehdi Law Firm Milstein Adelman LLP Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popepo, P.C. Nossaman Ogletree Pepperdine University School of Law Presidio Bank Reed Smith LLP Rust Consulting SABA-SC Santa Clara School of Law Silverman Shin Byrne & Gilchrest Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Southwestern Law School Taylor & Company Law Offices, Inc. The Recorder Thomson Compumark UC Davis School of Law UC Hastings College of the Law UC Irvine School of Law UCLA School of Law University of La Verne University of San Diego School of Law University of San Franciso School of Law UPS® Zeughauser Group

Your invitation to join us in celebrating our 25th Anniversary of making a better, more

diverse and inclusive justice system.

• Scholarship Reception sponsors support our scholarship programs Your gift directly benefits scholarship recipients and the California Bar Foundation Grants Program. All event costs are underwritten separately.

Underwriting Commitment Form We accept the invitation to help grow the 2015-2016 Grants Program with a payment of $2,500.


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Grants for a Diverse and Inclusive California Bar The California Bar Foundation is committed to building a better justice system with a State Bar representive of the communities it serves and broadening public interest career opportunities for diverse law students and attorneys. We are the only statewide legal foundation with ties in both the philanthropic and legal communities. Our giving is smart, coordinated and designed for the greatest impact. Our Impact Our grants support the most transformative work for underserved communities by supporting legal service agencies across California. Our grants also help build career opportunities for law students who seek careers in public interest. In 2014, our Grants Program:

• Invested $170,000 in 13 agencies representing underserved communities throughout California;

• Provided a grant of $15,500 to Root & Rebound, a nonprofit launched by one of our former diversity scholars.

In 2015, we invite you to grow this work by investing with us:

• Funding legal fellowship opportunities with legal aid agencies; • Providing larger grants to legal aid agencies; • Developing the California Bar Foundation Diversity in the Law Policy Center

analyzing diversity in the legal profession and furthering guides for grantmakers.

Your Investment We invite organizations sharing our commitment to a diverse and inclusive legal profession to underwrite our Grants Program. Your financial commitment of $2,500 or more provides you:

• Tickets to our annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony • Prominent placement and recognition in media and marketing materials • Deeper connection within the philanthropy community • Recognition as a member of the Foundationʼs Leadership Circle in our

Annual Report and on our website

California Bar Foundation 2015 Grants Program

The California Bar Foundation's support of Disability Rights Legal Center allowed for the creation and distribution of two separate legal resource guides for people living with HIV/AIDS—one focusing upon San Bernardino County and the other on Riverside County. We are thrilled to have been given the chance to expand access to services for this historically underserved population.

Shawn Kravich, Director of Disability Rights Legal Centerʼs HIV Law and Policy Program

2015 Pathways to Justice Scholarships

California Rural Legal Assistance - Statewide

Center for Youth Development Through Law - Northern CA

Centro Legal de la Raza - Northern CA

Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) - Statewide

Immigrant Legal Resource Center - Central CA

La Raza Centro Legal - Northern CA

Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center - Central CA

Loyola Law School - Southern CA

Modest Means Incubator Grant

National Center for Youth Law - Northern CA

One Justice - Statewide

Root & Rebound - Central CA

Southwestern Law School - Southern CA

The Science of Success

UCLA Law Fellows Program - Central CA

2014-15 Grants Recipients

Pledge Commitment Form Yes, we accept the invitation to make a one-time, tax-deductible gift of $5,000

supporting the Diversity in the Public Interest - Bar Exam Scholarship Fund.


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The Need Working in public interest is not as lucrative as the private sector, and it can be challenging for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue and maintain public interest careers. As with the private bar, achieving diversity in public interest law is crucial. Clients who come from underserved communities need advocates who reflect their background and experiences. The California Bar Foundationʼs Diversity in the Public Interest - Bar Exam Scholarship is the only California scholarship providing bar exam-related support for diverse law school graduates pursuing public interest careers. Our Impact For the past 20 years, our partnership with BarBri and the accompanying living stipend have made studying for the California Bar Exam less stressful for future lawyers. Legal aid agencies have expressed deep enthusiasm for this scholarship, since they cannot offer bar stipends as many private organizations can. This scholarship supports both law school graduates and the public interest sector as a whole. We are uniquely connected and positioned to reach the most committed, hard-working law students from diverse backgrounds at all 35 California law schools. Your funds support the students with the greatest need, and your partnership ensure that we can reach as many of these students as possible.

Diversity in the Public Interest - Bar Exam Scholarship Fund

Your Invitation A $5,000 tax-deductible gift designated to the Diversity in the Public Interest Bar Exam Scholarship. Pledge must be received by August 1, 2015 (commitment is due by close of fiscal year, December 31, 2015).

Without the generous support of the Public Interest Bar Exam Scholarship, I could not have prepared for and passed the grueling California Bar Exam. The scholarship allowed me

to devote time and energy to studying for the Exam, and alleviated a great deal of stress.

Jessie Owen, 2013 Public Interest Bar Exam Scholar, UC Hastings College of the Law


2014 Public Interest Bar Exam Recipients

Renée Amador Board of Directors Scholar UC Irvine School of Law María Sofía Corona Gómez Crowdfunding Scholar UC Berkeley School of Law Dawn Hamilton Rosenthal Scholar Southwestern Law School Stephanie Krol Jim Pfeiffer Scholar USC Gould School of Law Jesse Leon Loyola Law School Markus McQueen Southwestern Law School Samantha Morales Daniel S. Goodman Scholar Thomas Jefferson School of Law Jesus Mosqueda Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Scholar UC Berkeley School of Law

Lien Nguyen Crowdfunding Scholar Chapman University School of Law Adriane Peralta Tom Curry Scholar UCLA School of Law Maya Dillard Smith UC Hastings College of the Law Leana Taing UCLA School of Law Irma Vargas USC Gould School of Law Anna von Herrmann UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) Andrea Yamsuan Seyfarth Shaw Scholar Loyola Law School


Annual Giving Campaign Fund

We believe that a diverse and inclusive legal profession is critical for all Californians. Every day, we work to increase opportunities for students from communities traditionally underrepresented in the California State Bar to finance their law school studies, pass the California State Bar and fund diversity pipeline programs encouraging them to pursue legal careers. Every year, we at the California Bar Foundation rely on donations from individuals and organizations to fund our critical diversity and inclusion work.

We invite you to make a financial commitment to building a diverse legal profession ensures we can continue offering our Diversity Scholarships for rising first-year law students, the Diversity in the Public Interest - Bar Exam Scholarships for graduating law students committed to practicing in the public interest and fund our grant programs facilitating diversity pipeline programs throughout California. We offer several opportunities to join our work of building a better, more diverse and inclusive California State Bar:

• Personal Giving Your personal gift provides unrestricted funds that underwrite the cost of our Scholarship Programs and fund our pipeline grants. Donations of $250 or more qualify you for recognition as a Fellow and include tickets for our annual Scholarship and Award Ceremony held in September.

• Scholarship and Award Ceremony You or your organization can demonstrate your commitment to

diversity and inclusion in the law by underwriting our Scholarship and Award Ceremony. All funds raised by underwriting the ceremony are used to fund our diversity and inclusion programs. Scholarship Reception Sponsorship begins at $500 and qualifies your organization for recognition throughout the year and provides tickets to and recognition at the reception.

Learn more about these opportunities to support our work and demonstrate your personal and organizational commitment to a diverse and inclusive California State Bar – Contact development director Joe Swimmer at [email protected] or 415.865.0780. (continued)

Your invitation to join us in creating a better, more diverse and inclusive justice system.

Diversity Recipient Biography

Commitment Form I/We commit to supporting the California Bar Foundationʼs 2015 Annual Giving Fund Campaign.


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Please return this form along with payment to:

Carlos Aguilar, Development & Operations Associate, California Bar Foundation, 180 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Annual Giving Campaign Fund (continued)

Friends of the California Bar Foundation

Lead Sponsor ($2,500-$4,999)

Underwriter ($5,000-$9,999)

Lead Underwriter ($10,000+)


Sponsor ($1,500-$2,499)

Lead Partner ($1,000-$1,499)

Partner ($500-$999)

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