PLEDGE - Professionals in Legal Education Developing Equity Initiative
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Overview
Focus Area: Diversity Programs, Academic and Bar Success
An initiative to increase knowledge and skills related to using empirical research methods to design, administer, and assess student success programs.
Program Goals
- Increase knowledge and skills in empirical research methods
- Support design of student success programs
- Support administration of student success programs
- Support assessment of student success programs
- Foster diverse, equitable, and inclusive law school learning environments
Contact
Address: 10 North High Street Suite 400, West Chester, PA 19380
What Accesslex Institute actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 38
- Total given
- $2.28M
- Median grant
- $50K
- Range
- $7,500–$175K
- By dollars: New York 15%, Illinois 12%, California 9%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; New York, NY; Chicago, IL.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 43% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
The State Bar of California - Exam Features Experiment · San Francisco, CA
Program support/research
$175K
American Bar Foundation - Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program in Legal · Chicago, IL
Program support/research
$150K
New York Law School - Empirical Study of Use of Students' Prior Knowledge · New York, NY
Program support/research
$150K
Pennsylvania State University - Antiracist Development Initiative for Law S · Carlisle, PA
Program support/research
$125K
National Center for Civic Innovation Inc - Enhancing the Ea's Productive M · New York, NY
Program support/research
$100K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Education
- Diversity
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