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Funding

CCIJ's work is currently funded by the following sources:

• Ashoka Canada, which has provided a three-year Fellowship to the Executive Director
  
• The Law Foundation of Ontario
  
• A generous donation from Maher Arar, a survivor of torture and human rights advocate
  
• The Funding Network-Toronto Fund of the Tides Canada Foundation
  
• Donations from the Tides Canada Foundation at the request of Gerald Gray and of Louise & James Eisenbrandt
  
• Many individual and monthly donors, with gifts ranging from $25 to $1000
  
• CCIJ's own revenue-generating activities, including a Continuing Legal Education course, speaking honorariums and mentoring.

In the past CCIJ has received grants for specific projects from the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Law Foundation of British Columbia and the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

Significant annual in-kind contributions are also made by Amnesty-International Canada and the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture.

Many of the CCIJ's activities are carried out through the volunteer commitments of its Board of Directors, and the lawyers, professors, health professionals, students and others involved in our networks across the country. The organization also draws on a list of pro bono lawyers for involvement in specific cases; our budget for 2010 includes approximately $200,000 in pro bono contributions.

Jayne Stoyles, CCIJ Executive Director and Alex Neve, Chair of the
Board accept generous donation from Maher Arar.