Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
ProBono.Org |
| Acronym: |
ProBono.Org
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| Legal status: |
section 21 Non Profit Organisation
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| Website address: |
http://www.probono.org.za
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Sections
| Section: |
VI - Organisations representing local, regional and municipal authorities, other public or mixed entities, etc. |
| and more precisely: |
Other public or mixed entities, etc. |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Erica Emdon
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Erica Emdon
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| Position: |
Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
1 Kotze Street, Constitution Hill Braamfontein
Johannesburg 2017
SOUTH AFRICA
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| Telephone number: |
(+2711) 3396080 |
| Fax number: |
(+2711) 3396077 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
ProBono.Org provides pro bono legal services to thousands of poor clients through its network of law firms. The first and only organisation of its kind in the country, our innovative model channels millions of rands worth of top quality legal assistance from the private legal profession to the most vulnerable and marginalised. Our vision is to promote, protect and realise the rights established in the Constitution and its promise of access to justice for all, most especially the poor, through private pro bono services.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
23
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
14 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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South African Human Rights Commission
Lawyers Against Violence
Lawyers for Human Rights
Legal Resources Centre
Law Society of South Africa
Over 160 Law Firms
Over 800 advocates from the Johannesburg Bar
Over 80 NGO's in areas of gender, child rights, refugee rights, labour, consumer rights, HIV/Aids, the aged, housing rights
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
10/2010
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09/2011
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Total budget:
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570,000
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€
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of which public financing:
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570,000
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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570,000
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€
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- from national sources:
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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