Private bar campaigns have grown steadily in the last decade. The earliest campaigns started in Boston, New York and Atlanta, and later spread to nearly 100 other communities. Bar campaigns nationwide now raise over $22,000,000 each year.

Private bar campaigns are annual fundraising campaigns that target individual lawyers, law firms and corporations. Most are locally based but there is a growing number of statewide campaigns. Dennis Dorgan, a fundraising consultant working on private bar campaigns and other funding issues with state and local programs, has helped over seventy organizations establish or expand bar campaigns. For more information contact Dennis Dorgan by email.