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Staff Biographies
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Melanie Hildreth
Director of Donor Relations
mhildreth@ij.org
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Melanie Hildreth works closely with IJ President Chip Mellor to ensure that the Institute for Justice has the financial resources it needs to carry out its mission in court and in the court of public opinion. In addition to keeping our donors up-to-date with email reports and other written correspondence, Melanie travels the country meeting with IJ's supporters in their homes and places of business to report on IJ's progress and activities. She also directs the Institute's Four Pillars Society, which recognizes IJ donors who have included the Institute for Justice in their estate plans.
Melanie joined IJ in September 2005 as development associate, and moved into the newly created position of director of donor relations in October 2007. Before coming to IJ, she worked in development at the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington, Va. Melanie graduated summa cum laude from DePauw University in 2004, earning a degree in philosophy. She and her husband, Jeff, live in northern Virginia.
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Through strategic litigation, communications, training, and outreach, the Institute for Justice advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their own destinies as free and responsible members of society. We litigate to secure economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and other vital individual liberties, and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government. Through these activities we challenge the ideology of the welfare state and illustrate and extend the benefits of freedom to those whose full enjoyment of liberty is denied by government. The Institute was founded in 1991 by William Mellor and Clint Bolick.
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