AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The nation’s foremost defender of civil liberties. We stand up for your constitutional rights: free speech, religious liberty, equality, privacy, and due process. We fight unlawful detention, eavesdropping, and abuse of power. We protect the rights of every American, including minorities, women, immigrants, and the poor. The ACLU has 2 separate entities, the ACLU & the ACLU Foundation. Contributions to the ACLU Foundation are tax-deductible while gifts to the ACLU are not. Both the ACLU & the ACLU Foundation support the organization’s extensive litigation, communications & public education programs. However, certain important activities carried out by the organization, such as lobbying, cannot be supported with tax-deductible gifts and are funded through the ACLU. Donations made through Benevity are directed to the ACLU Foundation and are tax-deductible. Benevity can only process matching gift requests for gifts made to the ACLU Foundation.
About This Cause
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation is the nation's foremost defender of civil liberties. Our mission is to realize the promise of the Bill of Rights for all people in the United States. These basic rights -- religious liberty, freedom of expression, the right to privacy, equality, and due process -- are the defining principles of our democracy and reflect the oldest and noblest values of American society. The ACLU was founded in 1920, at a time when activists languished in jail for distributing anti-war literature; state-sanctioned violence against African Americans was routine; and the Supreme Court had yet to uphold a single free speech claim. Since then, the ACLU has pioneered the fight for civil liberties, for example: defending the teaching of evolution in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925; fighting for school desegregation in the 1950s; decriminalizing abortion in the 1970s; and protecting free speech on the Internet in the 1990s. Today, we appear before the U.S. Supreme Court more often than any other non-governmental organization, and we handle nearly 6,000 court cases annually. The ACLU’s mission is carried out by a national staff of lawyers, a nationwide system of 50 affiliates, and the help of volunteers. We focus on a number of key issues, including women's rights; reproductive freedom; LGBT rights; voting rights; immigrants' rights; criminal justice; and racial justice. In 2013, our Supreme Court challenge to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) resulted in a landmark ruling overturning this discriminatory federal law. In addition, since 9/11, the ACLU has led a national campaign to keep America both safe and free by demanding that government ensure our security without sacrificing civil liberties. We challenged the unconstitutional provisions of the USA Patriot Act; we filed the first court challenge to the National Security Agency's illegal, warrantless spying program; and we unearthed thousands of pages of government documents related to the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. We also work to ensure that the U.S. government complies with international human rights principles in addition to the U.S. Constitution. The nation’s foremost defender of civil liberties. We stand up for your constitutional rights: free speech, religious liberty, equality, privacy, and due process. We fight unlawful detention, eavesdropping, and abuse of power. We protect the rights of every American, including minorities, women, immigrants, and the poor. The ACLU has two separate corporate entities, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU Foundation. Contributions to the ACLU Foundation are tax-deductible while gifts to the ACLU are not. Both the ACLU and the ACLU Foundation support the organization’s extensive litigation, communications and public education programs. However, certain important activities carried out by the organization, such as lobbying, cannot be supported with tax-deductible gifts and are funded through the ACLU. Donations made through Benevity to the ACLU are directed to the ACLU Foundation and are fully tax-deductible. In addition, in accordance with most corporate matching gift policies which state that only tax-deductible contributions will be matched, Benevity can only process matching gift requests for gifts made to the ACLU Foundation.