NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is one of the country’s premier legal organizations dedicated to fighting for racial justice. Litigation and advocacy are the primary strategies LDF employs in its efforts to change structures and systems that limit democracy and infringe on civil rights. LDF’s work is critical to ensuring that our nation’s schools remain truly public and accessible to all. (Strategy: K-12 Teaching and Learning)

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is one of the country’s premier legal organizations dedicated to fighting for racial justice. Litigation and advocacy are the primary strategies LDF employs in its efforts to change structures and systems that limit democracy and infringe on civil rights. LDF’s work is critical to ensuring that our nation’s schools remain truly public and accessible to all.

The Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a nonprofit organization that, through litigation, advocacy, and public education, works to end racial bias in the criminal justice system, protect voting rights and achieve full African-American civic engagement, increase economic fairness and promote equal pay for all Americans, and increase equity in education by removing racial barriers to educational opportunity. The Fund will bolster its institutional capacity to support leadership development for its senior staff.