LEADERSHIP

We are led by a deeply committed Board of Directors that includes two founders: Andrea Shaffer and Stacey Bucci. We receive advice and guidance from an independent Board of Advisors. 

 

PURPOSE

The specific and primary purposes for which Liberty Legal Foundation (“Corporation”) is formed and for which it shall be exclusively administered and operated are:

to promote the rule of law in the United States;

to ensure due process and equal protection under the law for all Americans;

to provide legal advice, counsel, and representation on matters of important public interest;

to receive, administer, and expend funds for charitable and educational purposes in connection with the provision of legal advice, counsel, and representation on matters of public interest;

to encourage, sponsor, and facilitate the dissemination of information and understanding of the law and individual rights under the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other laws of the United States or of the states; and

to advance these purposes pursuant to and in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

ACTIVITIES

In order to accomplish the foregoing charitable and educational purposes and for no other purpose or purposes, the Corporation shall also have the following powers:

• Litigate on its own behalf and on the behalf of others;
• Make contracts;
• Accept any contribution, grant, or gift for the general purposes or for any special purpose of the Corporation;
• Receive property by devise or bequest, subject to the laws regulating the transfer of property by will, and otherwise acquire and hold all property, real or personal, including shares of stock, bonds, and securities of other corporations;
• Act as trust under any trust whose objects are related to the principal objects of the Corporation, and to receive, hold, administer, and expend funds and property subject to such trust;
• Convey, exchange, lease, mortgage, encumber, transfer upon trust, or otherwise dispose of all property, real, or personal;
• Borrow money, contract debts and issue bonds, notes, and debentures, and secure the payment of and performance of its obligations;
• Deposit funds of the Corporation not otherwise employed in such banks, trust companies, or other depositories, or shall be otherwise invested;
• Make grants and contributions and otherwise render financial assistance; and
• Do all other acts necessary or expedient for the administration of the affairs and attainment of the purposes of the Corporation;

provided, however, that the Corporation shall not, except to an insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or exercise any powers that are not in furtherance of the primary purposes of the Corporation.