National Conference Of Bar Foundations
Save the Date: 2025 Annual Meeting
Mark your calendars for the 2025 NCBF Annual Meeting, scheduled for August 14-16, 2025. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn, network, and share with bar foundation leaders from across the country. Stay tuned for more details in the coming months.
It's Time For Our 2024 - 2025 Membership!!
Join Other Community Leaders Throughout The Nation
Your Membership Level Is The Total of Annual Operating Expenses Plus Grants Awarded (Exclude IOLTA Funds)
Membership Has Its Benefits
Membership in NCBF opens the door to a variety of resources that will help strengthen your foundation and enhance your performance as a foundation leader.
NCBF membership will put you in touch with:
- A network of experts: All members have access to Member Connect, an online resource that puts the collective experience of bar foundation executives and volunteer leaders at your fingertips.
- Essential information, including access to a "Members Only" area with a Forms Bank, Jobs Posting section, handout materials from NCBF meetings, and NCBF member surveys on the cumulative impact of bar foundations.
- Top-notch programming: Members have a low-cost registration fee or no registration fee to conferences and webinars each year with programming that speaks directly to bar foundation issues and qualifies for CFRE and CLE accreditation.
- Leadership opportunities: Members can grow in their careers by becoming involved with an NCBF committee or program.
- Recognition: Members are eligible to receive the NCBF Excellence Award and/or the NCBF Partnerships for Success Award, which honors the excellent work that your foundation is conducting within your community.
- Digital Newsletter: Quick tips and information to enhance your organization's operations, in a format that is easy to share with board members and volunteers.
- NCBF membership as a bar foundation allows three people from each foundation to have login privileges to access all the membership resources.
For Foundations and Associations, Your Membership Level Is The Total of Annual Operating Expenses Plus Grants Awarded (Exclude IOLTA Funds)
$10,000 to $499,000
$199 / 2024-25
- September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025
- Network of Experts
- Members Only Section
- Conference Discounts
- Award Recognition
- Digital Newsletter
$500,000 to $1.99 M
$300 / 2024-25
- September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025
- Network of Experts
- Members Only Section
- Conference Discounts
- Award Recognition
- Digital Newsletter
$2 M to $2.99 M
$360 / 2024-25
- September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025
- Network of Experts
- Members Only Section
- Conference Discounts
- Award Recognition
- Digital Newsletter
$3 M and more
$420 / 2024-25
- September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025
- Network of Experts
- Members Only Section
- Conference Discounts
- Award Recognition
- Digital Newsletter
Individual
$100 / 2024-25
- September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025
- Network of Experts
- Members Only Section
- Conference Discounts
- Award Recognition
- Digital Newsletter
Member's Spotlight
Our Member's Spotlight highlights the foundations, members and programs that are making a difference in our legal community every day.
Saint Louis Bar Foundation
Thomas O'Shea 2024 NCBF Excellence Awardee
A Philanthropist
Thomas's philanthropy has gained the admiration of his local legal community and York County Bar.
Oustanding Fundraiser
Thomas is an exceptional fundraiser with the help of the comedy troupe, "The Bar Stools".
NCBF VALUES STATEMENT
The National Conference of Bar Foundations strives to engage the bar foundation community to provide knowledge, inspiration, and opportunities through partnerships, collaborations, connections and networking. With a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we promote access to and the administration of equal justice through the organized bar and larger legal community while educating our nation’s citizens regarding their rights and responsibilities under the law.
Leadership
Running a bar foundation is no easy task. Yet it can be one of the most rewarding aspects of the legal profession. Lawyers give back to their communities with pride knowing that their efforts are making a real difference.
The National Conference of Bar Foundations is where we can all come together to share information, tips and guidance to help us make the most of the talent we find throughout the legal community. To be effective, it takes the right kind of leadership.