There are several options for making a tax-deductible donation to the Campaign for Equal Justice, the Endowment for Equal Justice or the Laurel Rubin Farm Worker Justice Project. Below are the several means by which to make your contribution. Donations also can be made monthly or quarterly.
On-line
Make a secure on-line contribution to the Campaign for Equal Justice, the Endowment for Equal Justice, or Laurel Rubin Farm Worker Justice Project right now. click here to contribute on-line
Mail or Fax in Your Donation
Print a form and mail or fax it back to us print form now
The Campaign for Equal Justice 1325 Fourth Avenue, Suite 1335
Seattle, WA 98101
Fax: 206.623.5261
Phone
Call your gift in to the Campaign for Equal Justice
Business Hours (8:30a – 5:00p PST) at (206) 623-5261 ext. 281
Workplace Giving
Contribute to the Campaign for Equal Justice through your workplace giving program. Your company’s payroll deduction giving program is a convenient and efficient way to make your charitable decisions while participating in your workplace campaign.
Simply write in The Campaign for Equal Justice on your pledge card. Public sector (federal, state, county, city) employees will also need the following information:
The Campaign for Equal Justice
Tax I.D. 94-3131284
1325 Fourth Avenue, Ste. 1335
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 623-5261
Funds may also be designated to The Campaign for Equal Justice through your local United Way giving program. Please include our name, address, and Tax I.D. number (listed above) on the designation form.
The Campaign for Equal Justice participates in the following workplace campaigns. Please enter the appropriate agency code on your workplace forms to designate the Campaign for Equal Justice.
Combined Federal Campaign of:
88722
Columbia River / Willamette Valley, Island County, King County, North Puget Sound, Kitsap/Mason Counties, Mid-Columbia Area, Olympic (Clallam), South Puget Sound, Walla Walla Area
King County Employee Giving Program:
2776
Washington State Combined Fund Campaign:
0456923
Personal Fundraising Page
Create a personal fundraising page to share the Campaign with friends, family, and more! You can personalize your page with text, video, and pictures. Share your page via Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Email, or your blog. Click here to create your personal fundraising page.
Matching Gifts
Many companies support employees’ charitable interests by offering matching gift programs. You may be able to double or even triple your gift by taking advantage of matching gifts from either your or your spouse's employer. Companies with matching gift programs will supply employees with matching gift forms upon request (usually to the Community or Human Resources department) to fill out and send along with your gift or pledge payment.
Gifts of Securities:
Gifts of stocks and bonds are easy to complete, qualify you for a charitable income tax deduction and you will avoid paying capital gains tax on the transfer.
For stock gifts to The Campaign for Equal Justice, The Laurel Rubin Farm Worker Justice Project or the Endowment for Equal Justice when securities are held by your broker or bank:
Prior to initiating your gift, please call Karen Falkingham, Director of LAW Fund and the Campaign for Equal Justice at (206) 623-5261. We need advance notice of transfers in order to set them up with our bank and to acknowledge your gift in a timely manner.
Notify your broker that you want to make a gift of stocks or bonds to LAW Fund and instruct your broker to transfer the securities, if DTC-eligible, to LAW Fund’s account with our bank, UBS in Seattle.
Your broker will need the following information:
UBS, contact person: Rori Zajac
Phone # (206) 447-2468
DTC number: 0221
Credit to: LAW Fund, Account # WI 70339 SS
The tax identification number of LAW Fund and the Campaign for Equal Justice is 94-3131284
Donate any kind of vehicle: cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs, boats, airplanes, heavy equipment, farm machinery, etc to benefit the Campaign for Equal Justice. It's free and tax deductible. Pick up is available in most places throughout the U.S.
Cy Pres Awards Can Benefit Civil Legal Aid
In many class action cases a large part of the settlement fund or judgment remains unspent because numerous members of the plaintiff class cannot be found. In those situations the court is faced with the issue of how to dispose of the remaining money in the common fund. Courts solve this problem by making “cy pres” awards, which distribute the unclaimed funds to their next best compensation use. (See Newberg on Class Actions).
A cy pres award to the Campaign for Equal Justice, which will benefit the 30+ civil legal aid programs throughout the state of Washington, is a perfect fit for the unclaimed funds left in a class action suit. Every class action itself is about access to justice as a method of grouping people together when, as individuals, they cannot meaningfully pursue their claims. Directing residual class action funds to support civil legal aid programs that exist to provide access to justice for low-income people makes perfect sense given the underlying principle of the cy pres doctrine.
Cy pres distributions provide our state’s civil legal aid programs—the Alliance for Equal Justice—with much needed funding for free legal services for low income families and individuals with urgent legal problems, which returns families to safe, productive lives and preempts a costly spiral of social problems by reducing homelessness, unemployment, deficient healthcare, domestic violence, and loss of livelihood. Cy pres funds also provide the venture capital that allows the Alliance to create new community collaborations to expand legal aid services in under-served areas, like Moses Lake, Washington. Since 2005, more than $1 million in cy pres distribution awards have been directed to LAW Fund and the Campaign for Equal Justice to expand legal aid services throughout Washington state.
Please note: For class action lawsuits filed in Washington State Court, CR 23 prescribes that an amount of not less than 25% of the remaining funds be directed to support activities or programs that support access to the civil justice system for low income residents in Washington State. For further guidance, please refer to: www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/court_rules/RULE CR 23
Contact Campaign for Equal Justice staff for further information:justice@c4ej.org, or 206.623.5261
Charity Badges
Create your own charity badge for free to raise awareness and funds for the Campaign for Equal Justice. Charity badges can be linked to websites, blogs and email signatures and shared with friends and family. Read more about the tremendous impact of charity badges by clicking here.
To create your own badge visit www.sixdegrees.org. Be sure to select Legal Aid for Washington Fund (which administers the Campaign) as your designated charity.
If you would rather not create a badge, you can use the sample Campaign for Equal Justice badge at: http://www.networkforgood.org/pca/Badge.aspx?BadgeId=106480 . Click the "Share" tab" and then press "Copy" for the email or website info and then paste to your email signature or website.
Donate proceeds from your eBay trade eBay Giving Works is a fundraising platform that offers eBay users the opportunity to support their favorite charities through trading on eBay. This service allows you to list items on eBay and direct a portion or all of the proceeds to the Campaign for Equal Justice, an approved non-profit of eBay Giving Works.
Click here to go to our eBay homepage:
Listing for the eBay Giving Works program is provided by MissionFish, a nonprofit service of the Points of Light Foundation, which since 2000 has been helping nonprofits raise hundreds of thousands of dollars using this online auction process that turns in-kind donations into cash.
Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Prior to posting an item for sale, log onto www.missionfish.org and register for free. You’ll need to have a valid eBay account setup to do this.
Step 2: Once you are signed up on Missionfish, we’re notified of the new item listing and are given one business day to review and approve our participation in the sale of your item.
Step 4: The menu will allow you to select how much (1-100%) of the proceeds from the sale of your item will be donated to the Campaign for Equal Justice, and then completes the listing with MissionFish Giving Assistant™ process (works just like a regular listing on eBay).
Step 5: Your item gets listed for sale on eBay based on the schedule and choices in pricing, shipping, etc. that you chose. There is only a nominal increase in the “fee” charged on eBay to cover the administrative cost of Missionfish administration of the donation.
Step 6: Your item appears in eBay with an eBay Giving Works icon featuring the Campaign for Equal Justice and the donation percentage indicated in the item description.
Step 7: When your listing ends, and the buyer pays you, the Campaign for Equal Justice’s portion of the sale goes to Missionfish, which holds it in escrow until the refund period ends (typically one month after the month in which the item is sold, plus 15 days).
Step 8: After the escrow period, Missionfish transfers the proceeds to the Campaign for Equal Justice and sends you a receipt via email for your tax-deductible portion of the sale.
Step 9: The Campaign for Equal Justice mails you a letter to thank you for your generous support.
