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Announcing the Bert Pogrebin Appleseed Fund for Justice

Thirty years ago this spring, members of the Harvard Law School Class of 1958 founded Appleseed on a simple but powerful idea: The law should be a force for good, a system that supports genuine opportunity for all. From that …
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MA Appleseed & Edgeworth Economics Tackle School Discipline Disparities in Massachusetts

Black girls in Massachusetts are nearly four times more likely than their classmates to be suspended or expelled from school. To provide communities with the information they need to advocate for more just school systems, Massachusetts Appleseed teamed up with …
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A season of gratitude in a year of growth and progress for the Appleseed Network

From all of us here at Appleseed, THANK YOU for all the time, talent, and treasure you gave this year to help build a better world. Because of people like you, families across the United States and Mexico today are more …
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Appleseed Network joins letter urging against harsh credit treatment of those impacted by Hurricanes Fiona & Ian

This week, we joined a coalition of 26 consumer, civil rights, and advocacy groups asking federal agencies CFPB, OCC, FHFA, FHA, FDIC, NCUA and FRB to discourage lenders from reporting negative information to credit bureaus for consumers impacted by Hurricanes Fiona and …
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NFL Foundation & Players Coalition Named Appleseed’s 2022 Pillars Of Justice

WASHINGTON, DC – In 1984 Ronald McKeithen was sentenced to die in prison for a convenience store robbery in Birmingham, Alabama. No one was physically injured in the robbery, and no shots were fired, but life without parole was the …
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Appleseed Welcomes Seven New Board Members

The Appleseed Foundation is pleased to welcome seven new members to our Board of Directors.  At its May meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, the Appleseed Foundation Board unanimously elected Beverly Allen, Sharie Brown, Pete Davis, Lisa Dewey, Daniel Dominguez, Markus Green, and Richard Jerome. …
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18 Organizations Call on US Secretary of Transportation to Ensure Equity in Infrastructure Spending

This week, the Appleseed Foundation, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, and 16 members of the Appleseed Network and the Shriver Center’s Legal Impact Network joined together in an urgent letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. We called …
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18 Organizations Call on U.S. Secretary of Transportation to Ensure Equity in Infrastructure Spending

WASHINGTON, DC — This week, the Appleseed Foundation, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, and 16 members of the Appleseed Network and the Shriver Center’s Legal Impact Network joined together in an urgent letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. …
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