The Foundation’s Board of Directors voted at its annual meeting in September 2015 to amend the Foundation’s By-laws to add two additional Board members, Judge Mary Ellen Coster Williams and Doug Hallward-Driemeier.

The Barbara McDowell and Gerald S. Hartman Foundation has selected six organizations for 2016 grants.

Drinker Biddle obtained significant achievements in exposing the unfair treatment of death row prisoners while collaborating with individuals from the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project and counsel from Mississippi.

The Foundation received from the 2015 Grantees their year-end reports.

Foundation provides update on 2016 funding pool.

The Foundation received from the 2015 Grantees their six-month reports.

The Foundation received a report from the Legal Aid Justice Center, a 2012 grantee, giving an update on the case for which it received a grant.

The Foundation has awarded five grants for 2015

The Foundation received 30 applications from prospective grantees for its 2015 awards.

Barbara McDowell served as president of the Shaw Communities Ministry and worked on its college Scholarship program.

Kesiah John-Paul was one of the scholarship students that Barbara supported. With her scholarship assistance, Kesiah attended New York University School of the Arts.

Barbara McDowell’s legacy continues as her contributions at Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia were recognized in a recent Legal Aid blog discussing an important case that Barbara helped Legal Aid to win.

The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia has awarded posthumously Barbara McDowell its Servant of Justice Award to be presented by Sally Gordon, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, on April 29, 2014 at Legal Aid’s annual dinner. Jerry Hartman accepted the award for Barbara.

Drinker Biddle obtained significant achievements in exposing the unfair treatment of death row prisoners while collaborating with individuals from the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project and counsel from Mississippi.

The Foundation has awarded six grants for 2014.

The National Immigrant Justice Center, a 2012 Grantee, received support for a case, Cece v. Holder, in the Seventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. On August 9, 2013, the court adopted the National Immigrant Justice Center’s position on the definition of “particular social group” as applied to gender-based asylum claims and in closer accordance with international refugee law.

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, a 2012 Foundation grantee, recently prevailed in a case it brought against the City of Dallas.

On April 2, 2013, Susan Stern, the Deputy Director of Administration at the National Housing Law Project, wrote Jerry Hartman a note sharing an article featured in the Wall Street Journal. The note and article read as follows…

The Public Justice Center, a 2011 Foundation grant recipient, settled a case very favorably that it brought against the State of Maryland

A team of Drinker Biddle & Reath lawyers from the Washington and Philadelphia offices is partnering with a team of lawyers from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice to represent a class of blind and seriously visually impaired individuals.

The Foundation has awarded five grants for 2013.