CRF Moments

Berendo Middle School 2016

New Cops and Kids Initiative

To educate about law enforcement and improve interactions between youth and police officers, CRF is launching a Los Angeles-wide Cops and Kids program. With support from the Morrison & Foerster Foundation, this innovative and proven program will now be web-based to reach thousands of students and feature expanded classroom curriculum and civic action components to address neighborhood safety.

Teaching Critical Civic Skills

To help students develop critical reading skills, evaluate claims and sources, and make evidence based arguments CRF is working on a new grant with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in California and two other states to enhance teacher practice in these areas.

Library of Congress Project

Thanks to a grant to CRF and the Barat Foundation from the Library of Congress we will be developing innovative educational resources to help students better understand their constitutional heritage and history. Lessons will focus on understanding and analyzing documents and primary sources from the archives of the Library.

You are Invited!

As has become our tradition, CRF Emeritus members are cordially invited to join us at our annual December Board Meeting at Lawry’s Prime Rib on December 7, 2016. Please join us to see old friends, catch up, and kick off the holiday season. Contact Denise at 213.316.2104 or denise@crf-usa.org to let us know you are coming.

2016 Expanding Horizons Internships Students

CRF Director Peter Morrison accepts Firm of the Year for Skadden at 2016

Cobey Honors reception.

CRF Chair Chris Paskach with Peter Kendall & Lisa Cobey

Los Angeles Mock Trial Breaks Records

For the third year in a row, CRF has set a record for the number of schools participating in the Los Angeles County Mock Trial Competition. In 2013, we set a new record with 118 schools and in 2014 we broke it with 120 schools. In 2015, and all-time high of 131 middle and high schools participated.

Civic Action Project Continues to Grow

Our web-based Civic Action Project, a practicum in civic engagement for high school government students, now reaches nearly 2,600 teachers in 48 states and our school year ended in June with the highest number of registrants ever.

Visitors to CRF’s Website Over 2.5 Million

Over 200 CAP students attended the 2016 CAP Showcase

CRF’s award-winning website with over 600 free educational resources, received over 2.5 million unique visitors in 2015 and we are on track for even more in 2016. Also, in June we launched a new feature, Civics on Call, to provide headline-breaking lessons to teachers around the nation and dozens of foreign countries.

CRF & Google Cultural Institute

As reported in the Washington Post, “For the new American Democracy exhibit, Google worked with more than 45 institutions across the country including Constitutional Rights Foundation in Los Angeles, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Monticello, and eight presidential libraries.” Check out this new CRF-produced online exhibit, “Voting and Elections in Early America” at g.co/AmericanDemocracy.

CRF Moments

EHI Students with Spring Dinner Honoree Gaddi H. Vasquez of Edison International

Spring Dinner 2016: Speaker Bill Whitaker, CRF Chair Chris Paskach, Honoree Marjorie Steinberg, Dinner Chair T. Warren Jackson, Honoree

Gaddi H. Vasquez, CRF President Marshall Croddy

CRF Cops & Kids in Compton with LA Sheriffs & U.S. Attorney’s Office

CRF Emeritus News www.crf-usa.org

July, 2016

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

As has become our tradition, CRF Emeritus members are cordially invited to join us at our annual December Board Meeting at Lawry’s Prime Rib on December 7, 2016. Please join us to see old friends, catch up, and kick off the holiday season.