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Join Us in Honoring
This Year’s Award Recipients
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The Community Service Award:
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The Community Service Award honors individuals and organizations who work in the community to effect positive change for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons. Past recipients of the Community Service Award include The Trevor Project, Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin, San Francisco LGBT Community Center, Project Inform, Positive Resource Center, Scouting for All, the Gay-Straight Alliance, the Transgender Law Center. This year, BALIF is proud to recognize and honor the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. |
| Victory is the nation’s largest LGBT political action committee and only national organization dedicated to growing the number of openly LGBT elected officials at all levels of government throughout the United States. Victory works to elect LGBT leaders to public office for one simple reason - they change America's politics. Since 1991, the Victory Fund has helped thousands of openly LGBT candidates win election to local, state and federal offices. |
The Legal Service Award:
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The Legal Service Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of lawyers and organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to LGBT equality and that have significantly advanced those causes through their work in the law. Past recipients of the BALIF Legal Service Award include UC Hastings College of Law, Governor Edmund G. (“Jerry”) Brown Jr., Judge Donna Hitchens, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Judge Richard Kramer, Oakland City Attorney John Russo, Morrison & Foerster LLP and Lambda Legal. |
| This year, BALIF is proud to recognize the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, currently celebrating their 30th year in operation, for their tireless efforts at providing free and low-cost legal services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area. During the past 30 years, ALRP has represented pro bono clients in over 60,000 legal matters and currently has over 700 lawyers on their referral panel. |
Best Law Student Organization:
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| BALIF is proud to donate $500 to best law student organization which will be determined closer to March 15 Gala. |
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