ADF Allied Organizations
Since 1994, ADF has been privileged to partner with and/or act in alliance with more than 300 ministries and organizations. ADF Allies are those who willingly share common values on one or more of the issues within the ADF mission.
LEGAL
Advocates International
Advocates International has grown to be the world's largest international faith-based network of legal professionals proactively engaged in promoting and protecting religious freedom, family, reconciliation, human rights, the sanctity of life, justice for the poor, and governing integrity under the rule of law.
American Center for Law and Justice
The American Center for Law and Justice focuses on constitutional law and is specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, God-given rights. The Center's purpose is to educate, promulgate, conciliate, and where necessary, litigate, to ensure that those rights are protected under the law.
Americans United for Life
Founded in 1971 as the first national pro-life organization in the United States, Americans United for Life (AUL) is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law.
Christian Law Association
The Christian Law Association provides free legal assistance to Bible-believing churches and Christians who are experiencing difficulty in practicing their religious faith because of governmental regulation, intrusion, or prohibition in one form or another.
Federalist Society
The Federalist Society is a group founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.
FIRE
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) defends and sustains individual rights to freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience – the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity – at America's colleges and universities.
Home School Legal Defense Association
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens-of-thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.
Institute for Justice
Founded in 1991, the Institute for Justice engages in cutting-edge litigation and advocacy both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion on behalf of individuals whose most basic rights are denied by the government - like the right to earn an honest living, private property rights, and the right to free speech, especially in the areas of commercial and Internet speech.
Liberty Institute
Guided by principles that limit government and promote Judeo-Christian values, Liberty Institute was founded in 1972 to protect freedoms and strengthen families by impacting the legislature, media, and the courts with the Truth - specifically in the areas of freedom of speech, religious freedom, parental rights, students' rights, and responsible and limited government.
Pacific Justice Institute
Pacific Justice Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom, parental rights, and other civil liberties. Pacific Justice Institute works diligently, without charge, to provide their clients with all the legal support they need.
Thomas More Law Center
The Thomas More Law Center is a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, dedicated to the restoration and defense of the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life. It also supports a strong national defense and an independent and sovereign United States of America.
POLICY
California Family Council
California Family Council (CFC) works to protect and promote Judeo-Christian principles in California's culture for the benefit of its families. CFC serves as the statewide family policy council associated with Focus on the Family, an international media ministry based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Center for Arizona Policy
Center for Arizona Policy is a nonprofit research and education organization committed to protecting and defending the family by influencing policy, communicating truth, and empowering families to promote timeless values.
Citizens for Community Values
Citizens for Community Values (CCV) is a grassroots organization of citizens who are concerned for the well-being of the community, the strength of its families, and the future of its children. CCV exists to promote Judeo-Christian moral values and to reduce destructive behaviors contrary to those values through education, active community partnership, and individual empowerment at the local, state, and national levels.
Concerned Women for America
Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation's largest public policy women's organization helping its members across the country bring biblical principles into all levels of public policy. CWA focuses on six core issues: the family, the sanctity of human life, religious liberty, education, pornography, and national sovereignty.
Family Research Council
Family Research Council (FRC) was founded in 1983 as an organization dedicated to the promotion of marriage, family, and the sanctity of human life in national policy. Through books, media appearances, public events, debates, and testimony, FRC's team of experienced policy experts review data and analyze proposals that impact family law and policy in Congress and the executive branch.
Heritage Foundation
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a think tank whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Massachusetts Family Institute
The Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) is a non-partisan public policy organization dedicated to strengthening families in Massachusetts by engaging in research and education on a wide range of public policy issues to strengthen the well-being, health, and safety of families.
New Jersey Family Policy Council
New Jersey Family Policy Council's (NJFPC) mission is to intervene and respond to the breakdown that the traditional family, the cornerstone of a virtuous society, is experiencing. NJFPC articulates its message through experts in law, medicine, education, media, business, government, and the Church.
North Carolina Family Policy Council
Founded in 1992, the North Carolina Family Policy Council (NCFPC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to the preservation of the family and traditional family values. NCFPC's mission is to strengthen the family by educating North Carolinians on public policy issues that impact the family and to equip citizens to be voices of persuasion on behalf of traditional family values in their localities.
Palmetto Family Council
Palmetto Family Council is a non-profit, faith-based educational foundation committed to "defending and strengthening South Carolina families." Primary issues of concern to the Council include life-long committed marriage, the relationship between parent and child, sexual responsibility in youth and adults, the definition of marriage, life issues, legal issues, and public and private gaming.
EDUCATIONAL
Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America, founded in 1887 by the U.S. Catholic bishops with the support of Pope Leo XIII, is the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States.
The Claremont Institute
The Claremont Institute works to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. To recover the founding principles in our political life means recovering a limited and accountable government that respects private property, promotes stable family life, and maintains a strong national defense.
Colson Center for Christian Worldview
The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview is a ministry of BreakPoint, the worldview ministry of Prison Fellowship Ministries. Their mission is to seek the transformation of believers as they apply biblical thinking to all of life, enabling them to transform their communities through the grace and Truth of Jesus Christ. BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today's news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print.
Gateways to a Better Education
Gateways to Better Education is a national organization dedicated to helping public schools teach Judeo-Christian history, thought, and values. To support the achievement of this mission, Gateways provides a variety of timely and valuable resources to assist you.
Leadership Institute
Founded in 1979, the Leadership Institute (LI) teaches conservatives the nuts and bolts of how to succeed in the public policy process. LI's mission is to increase the number and effectiveness of conservative activists and leaders in the public policy process by recruiting, training, and placing conservatives in government, politics, and the media.
Summit Ministries
Summit Ministries is an educational Christian ministry whose very existence is a response to our current post-Christian culture. As Christians are challenged to stand strong in their faith and defend Truth, they will also be equipped to have a positive influence on the society in which they live.
Wall Builders
Wall Builders is an organization dedicated to presenting America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on the moral, religious, and constitutional foundation on which America was built – a foundation which, in recent years, has been seriously attacked and undermined.
Young America's Foundation
Young America's Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values. As the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement, the Foundation introduces thousands of American youth to these principles.
MINISTRIES
Campus Crusade for Christ International
In 1951, Bill and Vonette Bright pursued their passion for ministry by starting Campus Crusade for Christ at UCLA. What began with college students has since grown into one of the largest international Christian ministries in the world, reaching beyond students to serve inner cities, the military, athletes, political and business leaders, the entertainment industry, and families. The late Bill Bright was one of the founding members of ADF.
Coral Ridge Ministries
The late Dr. D. James Kennedy founded Coral Ridge Ministries, a media outreach ministry, in 1974. The passion of Dr. Kennedy was to bring the light of Christ into the lives of people everywhere. As he put it, "We have the greatest message the world has ever heard, and much of the world has still never heard it. It is our responsibility to take that message to every person in the world that they might have eternal life." The late Dr. D. James Kennedy was a founding member of ADF.
Crown Financial Ministries
Founded in 1976 by Larry Burkett, Crown Financial Ministries is an interdenominational ministry dedicated to equipping people around the world to learn, apply, and teach biblical financial principles. Crown has taught or equipped more than 50 million people in over 80 nations with the life-transforming message of faithfully living by God's financial principles in every area of their lives.The late Larry Burkett was one of the founding members of ADF.
Exodus International
Exodus is an interdenominational Christian organization promoting the message of freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ. Since 1976, Exodus has grown to include over 230 local ministries in the USA and Canada. They are also linked with other Exodus world regions outside of North America through the Exodus Global Alliance.
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. They provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God's design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles.
InterVarsity
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is an evangelical campus mission working with more than 32,000 students and faculty on approximately 550 college and university campuses. Their vision is to see students and faculty transformed, campuses renewed, and world-changers developed.
Chi Alpha Campus Ministries
Chi Alpha is a Christian campus ministry on universities throughout the United States and around the world. They are a movement of college-age men and women seeking to earnestly follow Jesus.
Students for Life of America
Students for Life of America (SFLA) works to provide students, from high school to graduate school, with the resources they need to save lives and abolish abortion on their campuses and throughout the nation.
