The AAML Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 grant recipients. The Foundation awarded 51 grants, chosen from a robust 95 applications, for a total of $322,000. This is the largest number of grants, for the largest dollar amount funded in a single year, in the history of the Foundation. Thanks to the AAML Fellows for their support and generosity, which made this outcome possible. Inclusive of this year’s grants, the Foundation has awarded more than $3.15 million in grants since 1992 to almost 200 organizations.

Of these grants, there are four that are awarded to organizations that focus their work in an area of special meaning to the grant’s namesake:

• The Michael S.J. Albano Grant is reserved for a grantee committed to improving the lives of children with an emphasis on promoting education, the advancement of women or members of other special groups, as well as those interested in scouting. This year’s recipient of this grant is Haven Hills, Inc., in Canoga Park, California.

• The Honorable Anne Lamkin Durward Access to Justice Grant is awarded to a grantee committed to overcoming language barriers for low-income domestic relations and family court litigants through direct, pro bono representation, interpretation services for court proceedings, informational/educational sessions and/or counseling services to indigent family law clients. This year’s recipient of this grant is the CASA Board Volunteer Association in Akron, Ohio.

• The Donn C. Fullenweider Grant is bestowed upon an agency that provides legal services and/or educates lawyers. This year’s recipient of this grant is Unchained At Last in Westfield, New Jersey.

• The Jim and Lea Hennenhoefer Grant is reserved each year for the grantee demonstrating or providing an innovative approach to, or unique services for families in need. This year’s recipient of this grant is Advokids in Corte Madera, California.

The grantees, representing 23 states, plus the District of Columbia, are listed below.

ADVO kids, Corte Madera, CA

Battered Women’s Shelter, Akron, OH

Calm Waters Center for Children and Families, Oklahoma City, OK

CASA Board Volunteers Association, Akron, OH

CASA of Monmouth County, Oakhurst, NJ

Center Against Sexual and Family Violence, Inc., El Paso, TX

Center for Children and Families, Inc., Norman, OK

Children’s Law Center of Central North Carolina, Winston-Salem, NC

Conejo Free Clinic, Thousand Oaks, CA

DC Affordable Law Firm, Washington, DC

Defenders of Children, Phoenix, AZ

Domestic Abuse Legal Advocacy Center, PSC, St. Paul, MN

Essex County Legal Aid Association, Newark, NJ

Family Law CASA of King County, Tukwila, WA

Family Tree, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO

FamilyKind, Ltd., New York, NY

Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, Atlanta, GA

Hanover Safe Place, Ashland, VA

Harmony at Home, Carmel, CA

Haven Hills, Inc., Canoga Park, CA

Hope Alliance, Round Rock, TX

Hopeful Horizons, Beaufort, SC

Iowa Center for Children’s Justice, Des Moines, IA

Journey Center for Safety and Healing, Cleveland, OH

Kids First Center, Scarborough, ME

Kids First Law Center, Cedar Rapids, IA

Kids In The Middle, St. Louis, MO

Kids’ Turn San Diego, San Diego, CA

Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center, Los Angeles, CA

LiveSafe Resources, Marietta, GA

Lowcountry Legal Volunteers, Okatie, SC

North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic, Highland Park, IL

Oklahoma Guardian Ad Litem Institute, Edmond, OK

Partners for Women and Justice, Bloomfield, NJ

Philadelphia VIP, Philadelphia, PA

SafeHaven of Tarrant County, Arlington, TX

Sistercare, Inc., Columbia, SC

The Children’s Law Center of Connecticut, Hartford, CT

The Laurel Center Intervention for Domestic and Sexual Violence, Winchester, VA

The Lilac Tree – Center for Divorce Resources, Evanston, IL

The Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire, Inc., Savannah, GA

The Women’s Advocacy Center, Memphis, TN

Tubman, Minneapolis, MN

Unchained At Last, Westfield, NJ

Upstate Mediation Center, Greenville, SC

Voices for Children, CASA of Boulder County, Boulder, CO

Volunteer Lawyers Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Women’s Advocates, St. Paul, MN

Women’s Law Center of Maryland, Inc., Towson, MD

Women’s Resource Center, Wayne, PA

Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, Decatur, GA

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The Foundation thanks the following donors since the last newsletter for their support and generosity:

In Memory of Molly McLaren
Mary Cushing Doherty

2025 Billable Hour Club
Anne L. Berger
Carolyn N. Daly
Laura E. Eisenberg
Donna M. Genovese
Mark A. Glazier
Abbas Hadjian
Richard F. Iglar
Helen O’Shaughnessy
Sandra R. Parise
Cynthia Runge
Frederic J. Siegel
Liisa R. Speaker
Amy M. Spilman

2026 Billable Hour Club
Renee R. Chernus
Barbara K. Runge
Eric S. Solotoff

New Lifetime Members
Randy W. Medina

Planned Living Gift
Michèle M. Bissada