Anapol Advocate Awards & Grants

Established in 2008 as a Donor Advised Fund at the National Philanthropic Trust, Anapol Schwartz Foundation assists nonprofits that serve victims and their families and funds research and programs aimed at advancing health and safety. The firm will continue to dedicate additional funds as its wins cases on behalf of consumers and their families. Read more about the  Anapol Advocate Award.

These charities received the most recent round of Anapol Schwartz Foundation grant funding:

  • The Legal Clinic for the Disabled: AJ Nanayakkara is the winner of the 2011 Anapol Advocate Award, for his commitment to enhancing the lives of individuals with spinal cord injuries. As a result, The Anapol Schwartz Foundation (ASF) will donated $5,000 to the Legal Clinic for the Disabled.
  • Overwhelmed with the accomplishments of all the nominees and their supporters, in 2011 ASF made contributions of $1000 each to all our four 2011 Finalists. Those charities and their respective sponsors are: The Adam Taliaferro Foundation (Adam Taliaferro); The Christopher Reeve Foundation (Dr. Daniel Gottlieb); MossRehab (Harry W. Schwartz, MD); American Spinal Injury Association (MJ Mulcahey).
  • Crozer-Chester Burn Center: Anapol Schwartz announced burn survivor Dennis Gleason as its Anapol Advocate Award winner.  The ASF will make a $5,000 contribution to Crozer-Chester Medical Center’s burn center in Gleason’s honor.
  • The Burn Foundation.  A grant, from part of the firm’s fees in an unsafe products case involving catastrophic burns to a young child, is creating a family mentorship program for burn survivors at this non-profit.
  • Caren Sydnor Locomotor Training Fund-Magee Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation. Financial assistance is supporting a fund, started by Anapol Schwartz client and spinal cord injury patient Caren Sydnor, which provides much-needed locomotor training to other spinal cord injury patients when insurance runs out. The fund also offers equipment to optimize therapy time and help these patients walk.
  • Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition. An award, made in the name of a client, is supporting Philadelphia high school special-needs graduates who are continuing on to higher learning.
  • The Mayor’s Commission on People with Disabilities. After providing restitution to a legally blind woman/prison worker whose leg was impaled-and ultimately amputated-due to a hazardous tree that PennDOT and its contractors failed to remove, Anapol Schwartz contributed part of its fees to scholarships for people with disabilities.

Can you recommend a charity that the Foundation could consider as a grant recipient? Nominate them.

History of giving back to the community

The grant program started in 2008. In the past, Anapol Schwartz has given back to charities and people like you were a part of it.

To commemorate these achievements and as part of our “giving back to the community” Anapol Schwartz contributed $20 in your name for every donation form which was completed on their website for up to a total of $20,000 through 12/31/07. The chosen charities receiving donations were:

  • MADD, Penn-Jersey
  • Northern Home for Children
  • Magee Rehabilitation Centers
  • Make-A-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia & Southeastern PA