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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Mountain States Legal Foundation is dedicated to:
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MSLF undertakes nationally significant public interest litigation, throughout the country, without charge (pro bono) on behalf of deserving clients who cannot afford to hire private counsel. By its litigation, MSLF seeks: (1) to ensure that the law is applied in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution and the intent of Congress, that is, the rule of law; and (2) to change public attitudes regarding important matters of public policy. CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT MSLF'S CASES CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT MSLF'S KEY STAFF MEMBERS MSLF
GOVERNANCE CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT MSLF'S BOARDS MSLF
CASE IDENTIFICATION WHO
IS MSLF? One of the most frequently asked questions by potential donors, possible clients, and probing members of the media is “Who Is MSLF?” The answer is simple and straight forward: MSLF is the embodiment of tens of thousands of donors from all across the country who are committed to preserving the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and to ensuring that the United States remains a nation of laws. Only as a result of the heartfelt support of individual donors, the overwhelming majority of whom contribute less than $30.00, is MSLF able to perform its invaluable courtroom defense of individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government and the free enterprise system. Thanks to a national campaign to educate and inform the American people of the abuses of the Constitution and federal law by the federal government as well as other units of government and the threat to liberty that such abuses present, MSLF now has nearly 25,000 donors from all 50 states! Overall, MSLF’s average donation is $290. Obviously, and contrary to misrepresentations often made in the media regarding MSLF’s source of financial support, MSLF is a true grassroots legal foundation. Like many nonprofit, public interests entities supported by charitable contributions (all contributions to MSLF are tax deductible), MSLF received one third of its annual budget in 2008 from its 61 largest donors (whose contributions range from $125,000 to $5,000), one third from 209 donors (whose contributions range from $5,000 to $1,000), and the remaining third from another 24,647 donors (whose contributions range from $1 to $999). However, unlike national environmental organizations, MSLF’s annual budget is tiny ($1.8 million v. $20, $40, $60, and even $250 million). Furthermore, the support MSLF receives from major corporations and foundations is very small compared to that received from those entities by national environmental groups. For example, it is not unusual for major corporations to donate from $25,000 to $100,000 and more annually to environmental groups. In sharp contrast, MSLF’s largest major corporate donor contributed $50,000 in 2008; second place belongs to a corporate donor that contributed $25,000. In fact, MSLF’s average contribution from major corporate supporters is $4,856. Scores of left of center foundations annually make contributions to national environmental organizations ranging from tens of thousands of dollars ($50,000 is not unusual) to several hundreds of thousands of dollars (as much as $990,000)! On the other hand, MSLF receives major grants from only six national foundations ($75,000, $50,000, $25,000, $25,000 , $20,000, and $15,000), with most of MSLF’s foundation support coming in grants of $5,000 or less, In fact, MSLF’s average annual contribution from foundations in 2008 was $12,690. As a result, MSLF depends heavily on the support of private individuals who share MSLF’s commitment to the Constitution. MSLF’s Board of Directors, which approves all of MSLF’s litigation, reflects such broad-based support. MSLF’s Directors represent more than a dozen states and numerous industries including construction, ranching, mining, oil and gas, agriculture trucking, and forestry. Only two Directors are from what might be called major corporations (mining and agriculture); most head up their own small companies. So, who is MSLF? It’s tens of thousands of individual Americans, from all 50 states, committed to the vision of our Founding Fathers!MSLF
SUPPORT MSLF is supported solely by the contributions received from a wide variety of sources including: (1) charitable foundations; (2) business entities; and (3) private individuals. Financial support received from private individuals is tax-deductible. CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE TO MSLF CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE E-MAIL NEWS ABOUT MSLF MSLF
OUTREACH CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT THE LITIGATOR CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT ACTION UPDATES CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT SUMMARY JUDGMENT CLICK HERE TO READ MSLF's MOST RECENT PRESS RELEASES |
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Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) is a nonprofit,
public interest law firm dedicated to individual liberty, the right
to own and use property, limited and ethical government, and the free
enterprise system. It is an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) entity
incorporated in the State of Colorado. Contributions
to Mountain States Legal Foundation are tax deductible. [Mission] [Press
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