ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
15100 North 90th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To keep the doors open for the Gospel by advocating for religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, freedom of speech, and marriage and the family.

ADF is committed to transforming law and culture so true freedom can flourish.

Legal advocacy: Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is an alliance-building legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith. ADF champions God-given freedoms that allow for human flourishing while affirming the dignity of every person. ADF exists to facilitate an alliance of like-minded influencers from every sphere of the public square affecting law and culture, and to mobilize this alliance to protect the core values of religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, freedom of speech, and marriage and the family. ADF offers exceptional legal advocacy and expertise through over 70 staff attorneys based in Arizona, Georgia, Virginia, Washington D.C., New York City, and around the world. Together with a network of 3,700 allied attorneys, ADF has a nearly 80% success rate in our cases and has won 11 Supreme Court victories since 2011. ADF works with over 1,000 allied organizations to create effective strategies for establishing critical legal precedents to preserve religious liberty in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as international courts and governing bodies such as the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations. ADF serves our network of allies by providing training, coordination, funding, legal expertise, and litigation services in support of our allied attorneys, church and parachurch organization leaders, legislators and legislative staff members, business leaders, clients, student leaders, and other key allies.

Allied support and training: As an alliance-building legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith, ADF is committed to equipping allies to defend and promote religious liberty to the best of their ability, and to transform law and culture so true freedom can flourish. To this end, ADF offers world-class training for Christian attorneys and professionals, law students, and college students interested in pursuing a career in law, public policy, government, journalism, and other culture-shaping fields. Through the ADF Summit on Religious Liberty, Legal Academy programs, and other training events, practicing attorneys, legal advocates, business leaders, clergy, policy leaders, and media leaders are invited to participate in world-class training, strategy, and networking sessions around the world. More than 2,100 U.S. and international attorneys have completed an ADF Legal Academy training, and over 3,700 ADF allied attorneys have volunteered pro bono legal advocacy services to local and international communities valued at over $225 million. This amount far exceeds the cost of these programs. Most U.S. state bars accept accreditation for portions of the legal advocacy training with continuing legal education credit. Through the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, ADF trains top Christian law students from around the world on natural law, constitutional jurisprudence and interpretation, and effective legal advocacy. Blackstone prepares these students for careers marked with integrity, excellence, and leadership and to approach their careers as a way to promote the common good. The program consists of courses taught by prominent lecturers, internships around the world with influential legal organizations, and professional career services. To date, over 2,400 students are alumni of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, representing 227 law schools worldwide. ADF offers similar programs for university students and young professionals who seek to live out their faith in the fields of law, government, public policy, and journalism. To date, more than 1,000 participants have graduated from these programs, many of whom go on to attend the Blackstone Legal Fellowship during law school.

Public education: ADF provides information to the public about the importance of proper laws concerning freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the sanctity of every human life, and the values of marriage and family in the United States and throughout the world. This is done through various means, including op-eds at prominent publications, comprehensive webinars, press releases, and our new Freedom Matters video series on Youtube, which has garnered over 15 million views since launching in the spring of 2020. ADF engages in this public education to inform and raise awareness of the following: The vision of the Founders concerning the U.S. Constitution to reflect natural law; entities that seek to distort or repurpose the Constitution's original meaning; domestic and international challenges to religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and family values; and how and where civil liberties have been jeopardized or thwarted and the efforts of ADF and its allies to reclaim those freedoms. ADF public education efforts also serve to recruit potential allies and to highlight the advocacy work of the alliance in order to position ourselves to serve as the first line of defense for individuals and organizations whose religious freedom is at risk. ADF also requests that the recipients of these educational communications remember our activities in prayer.

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