BAEC Bulletin | September/October 2023 | 5
FROM THE Erie County Bar Foundation
What Does the Bar Foundation Do? Our Foundation helps lawyers. Sadly, some of our fellow lawyers struggle to make ends meet. The causes are various – physical illness, family crisis, substance use disorders, death, divorce, mental health, and loss of employment. Any of these circumstances can cause our friends’ lives and practice to spin out of control. The Foundation is there to help, not to judge nor blame. We, working closely with a social worker, provide financial assistance to secure housing, office space, health insurance, heat and electric costs, car expenses and food assistance. We also advise that our friends reach out to our Member Assistance Program (“ MAP”) which the Foundation helps to underwrite, so those more skilled than our Board members can help our friends through their troubling times. In short, the Foundation is a lifeline and a problem solver when life doesn’t go exactly as planned. And the unexpected can and does happen to all of us. How Do We Do These Things? Besides leaning on amazing volunteers and skilled professionals, we receive and need financial support from you. You contribute to the annual campaign, you make contributions during the year in memory of a deceased member of the Bar, and you make a donation recognizing a significant event in the accomplishments of a friend. You pay it forward. You make these contributions because you are compassionate. You make these contributions because you care about those who do what you do but can’t because of personal problems they have encountered. You do it because you are a good and caring friend. You do it because it’s the right thing to do. So thanks for all you’ve done for the Foundation in the past and, if able, please continue to support our friends in the coming year. Our need is greater than ever.
KEVIN SPITLER President Erie County Bar Foundation
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