Organizations Filed Purposes:
THE CITY BAR FUND, THE 501(C)(3) AFFILIATE OF THE NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION, UNDERTAKES PUBLIC SERVICE, EDUCATION, POLICY ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES THROUGH THE CITY BAR JUSTICE CENTER, CYRUS R. VANCE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE, THE LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION.
THE CITY BAR FUND, THE 501(C)(3) AFFILIATE OF THE NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION, UNDERTAKES PUBLIC SERVICE, EDUCATION, POLICY ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES.
City Bar Justice Center ("CBJC") operates a large free civil legal hotline and ten legal projects to provide free legal assistance to low-income, disadvantaged New Yorkers with essential life matters. CBJC's core efforts focus on immigration, Cancer Advocacy and Elderlaw, Consumer Bankruptcy, homeowner stability, Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance, Legal Clinic for the Homeless, LGBT Advocacy, Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project, Planning and Estates Law, and disabled Veterans. CBJC's staff provide legal services directly and by recruiting and training volunteer attorneys and matching them with the vetted cases of low income New Yorkers most of whom are people of color. Each Year, CBJC helps over 20,000 people and matches over 1,600 matters and leverages $16 million in pro bono services to the poor that is included on Part I, #6.
The Vance Center advances global justice by engaging lawyers across borders to support civil society and an ethically active legal profession. The Vance Center is a unique collaboration of international lawyers catalyzing public interest innovation. We bring together leading law firms and other partners worldwide to pioneer international justice initiatives and provide pro bono legal representation to social justice NGOs within the human rights and access to justice program, the environment program and the good governance program. The Vance Centers strengthening the legal profession program engages law firms, bar associations, law schools, and pro bono clearinghouses with innovative initiatives, including Women in the Profession, African Legal Fellows, the lawyers council for civil and economic rights in the americas, and the pro bono promotion program, includng co-managing the pro bono network of the americas and through it the keep families together initiative, providing pro bono legal support in central america to children and families separated by u.s. immigration policies. The Vance Center leverages approximately $6 million worth of revenue in the form of pro bono services that is an estimate of the value of the pro bono work done by law firms on the projects.
TOGETHER WITH MORE THAN 160 SIGNATORY LAW FIRMS AND CORPORATE LEGAL DEPARTMENTS, THE OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY & INCLUSION (ODI) WORKS TO CREATE A LEGAL PROFESSION THAT REPRESENTS THE DIVERSE COUNTRY WE LIVE IN. ODI'S WORK STARTS WITH THE PIPELINE TO THE PROFESSION - ODI ASSISTS UNDERREPRESENTED HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND LAW STUDENTS TO PREPARE FOR A CAREER IN LAW. THEN, ODI SUPPORTS PRACTICING PROFESSIONALS ACROSS ALL LEVELS OF THE INDUSTRY, THROUGH OUR COMMITTEE WORK, LEADERSHIP TRAINING, SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES, AND EVENTS THAT CREATE COMMUNITY.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Lynn M Kelly | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - CBJC | 35 | $217,355 |
| Alexander Papachristou | EXEC DIRECTOR - VANCE CENTER | 35 | $184,439 |
| Eileen Travis | DIRECTOR - LAP | 35 | $134,975 |
| Deborah Martin Owens | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - D&I | 35 | $128,893 |
| Suzanne Tomatore | DEPUTY DIRECTOR - CBJC | 35 | $125,187 |
| Libby Vazquez | DIRECTOR - LEGAL HOTLINE | 35 | $118,168 |
| Marie-Claude Jean-Bapt | PROGRAM DIRECTOR -VANCE CENTER | 35 | $110,968 |
| Pedro A Medrano | Board Member (End 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Damian S Schaible | TREASURER (END 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Hazel-Ann F Mayers | VICE PRESIDENT (END 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Robert F Cusumano | CHAIR (end 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Craig Waldman | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Carol C Villegas | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Audra Soloway | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Jane C Sherburne | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Nicola Port | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Steven E Obus | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Richard Mancino | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Soo-Mi Lee | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Darren Laverne | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Susan J Kohlmann | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Lisa Koenig | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Aaron Kleinmann | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Dennis C Hopkins | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Jay Holtmeier | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Arunas Gudaitis | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Laura S Franco | BOARD MEMBER (as of 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Andrew G Fossett | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Roxanne Elings | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Shaila Rahman Diwan | Board Member (as of 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Tracee E Davis | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Livia M Corredor | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| James R Benjamin Jr | Board Member (as of 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Emma Bailey | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Allen D Applbaum | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ricardo Anzaldua | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Pamela Ehrenkranz | SECRETARY | 1 | $0 |
| Thomas R Slome | TREASURER (AS OF 6/19) | 1 | $0 |
| David Levine | CHAIR | 1 | $0 |
| Roger Juan Maldonado | PRESIDENT | 3 | $0 |
| Thomas J Halter | ASSISTANT TREASURER | 2 | $0 |
| Bret Parker | VICE PRESIDENT | 2 | $0 |
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