A complete list of the CBF’s grants paid in FY 2011 (June 1, 2010 – May 31, 2011) follows below.
View the FY 2011 Grants list as a PDF file.
Organizational Support Grants
Advancing Justice Grants
Special Project Grants
Special Project Grants - Circuit Court of Cook County Mortgage Foreclosure
Mediation Program
Fellowship and Scholarship Grants
Other Grants - Pro Bono and Public Service Award Grants
Other Grants - CBF Young Professionals Board Grants
Other Special Grants
CBF GRAND TOTAL GRANTS: $3,325,068
* The amount listed reflects the first year of a two-year grant.
** The amount listed reflects the second year of a two-year grant.
Organizational Support Grants
CARPLS (Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services) $80,000*
CARPLS is the legal aid hotline for Cook County that provides advice, information and referral services over the telephone and through court-based assistance desks to low-income residents of Cook County. Staff and volunteer attorneys provide legal assistance on civil law matters ranging from adoption to public benefits to over 55,000 low-income people annually.
Chicago Legal Clinic (CLC) $75,000**
CLC provides low cost and free legal services to over 30,000 low-income Chicagoans in four neighborhood offices and through three court-based advice desks. The Clinic offers representation in various areas of law, including family law, domestic violence, guardianships of minors and adults, Social Security disability claims, mortgage foreclosure, landlord/tenant disputes and immigration law.
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation (CVLS) $75,000**
CVLS volunteers and staff attorneys represent low-income Chicagoans in a wide variety of civil matters. Some of the many types of cases CVLS handles include divorce, adult and minor guardianships, adoption, tort defense, collection defense, bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure and landlord/tenant matters. Last year, over 3,000 volunteers and staff represented more than 18,000 clients.
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF) $75,000**
LAF is the largest organization in Chicago and suburban Cook County providing free civil legal services to individuals and families unable to afford legal counsel. LAF helps over 60,000 people a year by providing comprehensive legal services on a wide range of civil legal topics ranging from family law, evictions, mortgage foreclosure, bankruptcy, public benefits and immigration.
Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) $65,000*
ILAO is a web-based technology project to improve access to justice for lower-income and vulnerable Illinois residents. Illinois Legal Aid Online developed and maintains three statewide websites: www.IllinoisLegalAid.org (public), www.IllinoisLegalAdvocate.org (legal aid staff) and www.IllinoisProBono.org (pro bono attorneys). Last year, ILAO’s websites were visited over 1.4 million times.
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) $45,000**
NIJC served over 10,000 low- and moderate-income immigrants in the Midwest, without regard to legal status. Through a network of staff and volunteer attorneys, NIJC provides comprehensive immigration legal services, including immigrant visas, deportation defense and political asylum representation, and engages in policy reform and public education on behalf of immigrants.
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Shriver Center) $45,000**
The Shriver Center is a multi-issue legal advocacy organization dedicated to lifting people out of poverty. The Shriver Center helps shape state law and federal policies into affordable mechanisms to eliminate poverty. The Center’s work includes broad legal assistance, policy advocacy, public education, training of advocates and technology. The Shriver Center is a unique and invaluable resource for frontline legal aid attorneys in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) $35,000**
CCR works with individuals, communities, courts and other institutions to manage and resolve conflicts. Every year CCR provides free mediation services in over 1,500 cases, trains hundreds of new mediators, and works with dozens of businesses, government agencies, the courts and organizations to create custom designed dispute resolution systems and training programs.
Equip for Equality $35,000**
Equip for Equality strives to advance the human and civil rights of people with disabilities in Illinois. It is the only comprehensive statewide advocacy organization providing self-advocacy assistance, legal services, education, and public policy initiatives.
Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services (LAB) $35,000**
Founded in 1886, LAB is the second oldest legal aid program in the nation and continues to provide legal assistance to families who cannot afford a private attorney. Thousands of clients each year receive critical legal assistance in family law and other civil matters, with services ranging from brief service and advice to full litigation. It reaches and serves its clients through a downtown office and in offices in various Chicago neighborhoods and some suburban communities.
Life Span – Center for Legal Services & Advocacy $35,000**
Life Span provides comprehensive services to low-income victims of domestic and sexual violence. The core of Life Span's legal services includes legal advice, information, and representation in all family law matters, such as divorce, custody, child support, visitation, removal, and orders of protection. It also provides immigration legal services to victims of domestic violence. Life Span pairs its legal services with in-house counseling for clients and their children.
Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA) $30,000**
CGLA provides free legal services in the areas of housing, family and criminal law to low-income people in the City of Chicago. CGLA also annually provides legal services to over 5,000 individuals applying for expungement and sealing of criminal records and executive clemency.
Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) $30,000
LCBH provides free legal services to low-income tenants with a goal of impacting the affordable housing crisis to the greatest extent possible. Each year, LCBH serves over 2,000 tenants from all over Chicago year on various legal issues relating to their rental housing.
Health & Disability Advocates (HDA) $27,500**
HDA provides advice and legal representation to low-income Chicagoans on matters ranging from the loss of disability benefits to the coverage of emergency medical care. Through its policy, advocacy and legal work, HDA identifies systemic barriers to eligibility and enrollment of various benefit programs and uses this knowledge to develop policy solutions to eliminate those barriers.
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago $25,000**
The AIDS Legal Council of Chicago exists to preserve, promote and protect the legal rights of men, women and children in the metropolitan Chicago area living with HIV/AIDS. The Council provides legal services to low-income persons affected by HIV/AIDS, educates the public about HIV-related legal issues and advocates for policies that ensure fair treatment for all people with HIV/AIDS.
The Law Project (f/k/a Community Economic Development Law Project) $20,000
The Law Project, a project of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, provides non-litigation, transactional legal representation to Chicago’s community based organizations, neighborhood development projects and social service agencies. Tax, corporate, real estate and employment related legal services are offered pro bono by a panel of private attorneys from law firms and corporate legal departments. The Law Project also assists individuals pursuing small business development to achieve economic self-sufficiency and low-income, first-time home buyers with their real estate closings.
Center for Disability & Elder Law (CDEL) $15,000
CDEL was created to protect and advance the legal rights of low-income persons with disabilities and persons of advanced age in Cook County. Today, CDEL assist clients through the combined efforts of a small staff and a network of about 400 pro bono attorneys. Currently, CDEL offers legal representation in various civil legal issues, including consumer, adult guardianship, and estate planning and wills.
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless – Law Project $15,000*
The Law Project provides civil legal services in select cases that advance the legal rights and remedies of persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, including ensuring that public school systems do not wrongly bar homeless children from enrolling in and attending public schools.
The James Moran Center for Youth Advocacy (f/k/a Evanston Community Defender) $15,000**
The Moran Center is a public/private partnership providing law and social work advocacy to low-income youth in the Evanston area. The organization’s legal practice involves juvenile and adult criminal court matters as well as administrative advocacy in special education and school discipline matters. It also runs an Expungement and Sealing Help Desk at the Skokie Courthouse.
Uptown People’s Law Center (UPLC) $15,000
UPLC, located in the heart of this north side neighborhood’s business district, was founded in 1978 as a “community organization that just happens to practice law.” For over 30 years, UPLC has combined grass-roots advocacy with legal representation of poor and working people in Uptown and the surrounding communities. UPLC focuses its work in the areas of Social Security and public benefits, housing and tenant rights, domestic violence, and prisoner civil rights.
Lawyers for the Creative Arts (LCA) $12,500
LCA provides pro bono legal services to individuals and organizations in the arts. Last year with the help of over 200 volunteer attorneys, LCA advised artists and arts organizations on the full array of legal issues they encounter such as general business, registering and protecting their intellectual property via copyright, trademark, contracts and resolving other disputes. In addition to legal services, LCA offers a number of educational programs on a wide range of legal topics to artists and nonprofit arts organizations in the Chicago area.
Access Living – Civil Rights Project $10,000**
Access Living uses the legal system to further its mission of independent living for people with disabilities. Through the Civil Rights Project, the organization provides free legal representation to people who have been discriminated against based on disability in housing, public accommodations, government programs, health care, and other services and programs.
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM) $10,000
CLAIM provides legal and educational services to help imprisoned mothers preserve their families. Through public advocacy, CLAIM also promotes policies and programs that benefit families of imprisoned mothers.
The Family Defense Center $10,000*
The Family Defense Center is a unique organization with a mission to advocate for justice for families involved in the state’s child welfare system. The organization conducts its work through individual and class action litigation, client empowerment programs, public and community education and training, and legislative policy advocacy.
Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) $10,000
Working with the legal community, the Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) attempts to cultivate a lifelong commitment to public interest law. By working to engage attorneys at every stage of their professional career to provide free legal assistance to those in need, PILI seeks to increase access to justice for the poor and disenfranchised. PILI is best known for its Internship & Fellowship programs and also has a pro bono program and other initiatives.
Working Hands Legal Clinic (WHLC) $10,000*
WHLC provides access to free legal services in the area of employment law with a focus on wage theft cases to low-income workers (earning 150% of the poverty level or below) throughout the Chicago area. WHLC accomplishes its work through strategic partnerships with community-based organizations, government enforcement agencies and pro bono attorneys.
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law $7,500
The Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s mission is to promote and protect the civil rights of poor, minority, and disadvantaged people in order to facilitate their participation in the social, economic, and political systems of our community and nation. The organization engages in both litigation and community advocacy in four areas: 1) the Employment Opportunity Project, 2) the Fair Housing Project, 3) the Project to Combat Bias Violence and 4) the Law Project.
The Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU – Children’s Initiative $7,500**
The CBF’s funding supports the Children’s Initiative, which serves as a legal advocate for the thousands of abused, neglected and troubled children being held in state and county custody in Illinois.
Center for Economic Progress – Tax Clinic $5,000**
The Center for Economic Progress increases economic opportunities for low-income families, children and individuals by improving access to public, private and non-profit programs and services. The CBF grant supports the Center’s Tax Clinic, which provides free representation for low-income taxpayers involved in income tax controversies with the IRS.
Centro Romero – Latin American Legal Assistance Services $5,000**
Centro Romero is a community-based organization on Chicago’s North Side that serves primarily Spanish-speaking immigrants and refugees. Through the Latin American Legal Assistance Services, which is recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals, it offers legal representation, education and advocacy services in the areas of citizenship and naturalization.
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic $5,000
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, which is located in the Cook County Domestic Violence Courthouse, utilizes staff and pro bono attorneys to provide free legal services and referrals to low-income Cook County residents who have been subjected to domestic violence to help them achieve safety from abusive relationships.
First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA) $5,000
Since 1995, FDLA has provided free, 24-hour legal representation to individuals in Chicago Police Department custody. Over 70 private attorneys volunteer their time, usually one night a month, to protect the rights of people in police custody prior to the appointment of the public defender. Through its Streetlaw program, FDLA staff and volunteers present trainings to community members and youth about their rights if they are arrested or detained by the police.
Indo-American Center – Citizenship & Immigration Services $5,000
Through its Citizenship & Immigration Services, Indo-American Center operates a Board of Immigration Appeals-recognized program that offers assistance with U.S. citizenship and some family-based immigration services to South Asian residents in Chicago’s West Rogers Park area and other communities in the Chicago area.
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. – Midwest Regional Office Help Desk $5,000
Lambda Legal advances impact litigation, attorney education and public policy reforms that directly advance the civil rights of Chicago lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents as well as LGBT and HIV individuals living across the Midwest. The CBF grant supports the Chicago Help Desk, which provides callers with legal information and connects them to legal resources.
Latinos Progresando – Immigrant Legal Services $5,000
Through its Immigrant Legal Services Program, Latinos Progresando, a Board of Immigration Appeals-recognized organization, serves immigrants in Little Village and other Chicago-area communities by providing low-cost legal immigration services.
Midwest Center on Law & the Deaf (MCLD) $5,000
MCLD helps deaf and hard-of-hearing people find attorneys willing to provide accessible legal services, advocates for the rights of deaf persons in the justice system and provides to the public general information on the rights of deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
World Relief - Chicago – Immigration Legal Services $5,000
Located in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood, World Relief-Chicago provides legal services to low-income immigrant families on a variety of immigration issues, including family reunification and work authorization. Since 1991,World Relief – Chicago has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals as an agency authorized to provide legal services to immigrants.
TOTAL: $915,000
Advancing Justice Grants
Chicago Legal Clinic $17,500
(to support the Expedited Child Support and Paternity Advice Desk, which assists self-represented litigants in child support and paternity cases; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $30,000)
Equip for Equality $17,500
(to support the Special Education Clinic, which assists low-income children and their families facing critical special education issues by providing help-line advice and referral services, training materials and legal representation by Equip for Equality staff and pro bono attorneys; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $22,500)
Uptown People’s Law Center $17,500
(to support the Prisoner Civil Rights Correspondence Project, which recruits and trains pro bono attorneys to represent prisoners in their civil rights claims; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $30,000)
Cabrini Green Legal Aid $15,000
(to support the Expungement Assistance Desk, which provides advice and guidance to self-represented people filing expungement or sealing of criminal records at the Daley Center; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $20,000)
CARPLS $15,000
(to support the Collection Self-Help Desk in the First Municipal Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, which provides legal advice and brief services to self represented defendants in proceedings to collect on judgments as well as self represented plaintiffs seeking to collect judgments they have obtained; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $25,000)
CARPLS $15,000
(to support the Self-Help Desk in the Domestic Relations Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, which offers free legal consultations to low-income people who cannot afford an attorney and is designed to help them represent themselves in court on simple family law matters and to resolve issues after the entry of a divorce order; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $20,000)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago $15,000
(to support the Veterans’ Rights Project, which provides legal assistance to veterans through staff and pro bono attorneys; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $27,500)
Health & Disability Advocates $12,500
(to support the Chicago Medical-Legal Partnership for Children, an expanded medical-legal collaboration, which provides legal assistance related to health and public benefits issues onsite at hospitals in low-income neighborhoods; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $17,500)
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless – Law Project $10,000
(to support Youth Futures, an innovative mobile legal clinic, which reaches out to homeless youth, a group that is known to have extensive legal needs and that is underserved; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $20,000)
DePaul College of Law – Legal Resource Project for Immigration Services $10,000
(to support the Legal Resource Project, which provides legal and technical assistance to community-based immigrant service organizations (CBOs), thus building and enhancing the CBOs’ capacity to serve immigrants’ legal needs;including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $25,000)
Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services $10,000
(to support the Poverty Law Project, which serves the agency’s clients on the south and southwest sides of Chicago who have consumer, housing and family law legal problems; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $22,500)
National Immigrant Justice Center $10,000
(to support the Immigrant Children’s Protection Project, which provides legal representation to unaccompanied immigrant children in Immigration Court, and cultivates and supports a network of pro bono attorneys to assist children with their cases; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $15,000)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago $5,000
(to support the Medical Debt Relief Project, which provides information and legal assistance to low-income people throughout the Chicago area who are saddled with high medical debts; including the CAFLS grant, the total amount awarded was $10,000)
TOTAL: $170,000
Special Project Grants
CARPLS $178,500
(to support the Municipal Advice Desk, a joint project with the Circuit Court of Cook County, the CBF and Chicago Legal Clinic, which provides free legal assistance to low-income individuals with cases in the Municipal Division, including landlord/tenant and consumer cases; the CBF’s grant was funded by the 2011 Investing in Justice Campaign and matched by Cook County)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago $115,000
(to support the U.S. District Court Self Help Assistance Program, which provides pro se litigants in federal court with legal information, advice and limited legal assistance)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago $100,000
(to support the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Self Help Assistance Desk, which provides legal information, advice and brief legal assistance to people without lawyers in Bankruptcy Court)
Chicago Legal Clinic $65,625
(to support the Municipal Advice Desk, a joint project with the Circuit Court of Cook County, the CBF and CARPLS, which provides free legal assistance to low-income individuals with cases in the Municipal Division, including landlord/tenant and consumer cases; the CBF’s grant was funded by the 2011 Investing in Justice Campaign and matched by Cook County)
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation $50,000
(to support the Chancery Division Access to Justice Pro Bono Project, which recruits, trains and supports pro bono attorneys to represent pro se litigants in mortgage foreclosure cases)
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation $50,000
(to support the Disabled Adults Guardian ad Litem Probate Court Pro Bono Project, which recruits, trains and supports pro bono attorneys to act as a GAL for disabled people in guardianship proceedings; the CBF’s grant was funded by the 2011 Investing in Justice Campaign)
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation $50,000
(to support the Minor Guardianship Assistance Desk, a joint project with the Circuit Court of Cook County, the CBF and CVLS; this Desk offers assistance to persons representing themselves in seeking guardianship of a minor)
The Law Project (f/k/a Community Economic Development Law Project) $50,000
(to support the Nonprofit Legal Assessment Project, which is designed to improve the organizational effectiveness and strengthen the governance capacity of nonprofit organizations by matching them up with teams of pro bono attorneys; the CBF’s grant was funded by the 2011 Investing in Justice Campaign)
CARPLS $20,000
(to support the Administrative Hearings Desk, a joint project with the City of Chicago and the CBF, which provides free legal assistance to low-income pro se respondents with cases pending before the City’s Department of Administrative Hearings involving building code violation cases, vehicle impound cases, and other municipal matters; the CBF’s grant was matched by the City of Chicago)
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law $20,000
(to support the Federal Court Settlement Project through which pro bono attorneys represent pro se litigants in settlement conferences in federal cases)
Chicago Legal Clinic $20,000
(to support the Chancery Division Advice Desk, which assists pro se litigants facing mortgage foreclosure as well as other cases they may have in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago $20,000
(to support the Home Ownership Preservation Project to help meet the high demand of people victimized by predatory lending or mortgage fraud)
Special Project Grants – Circuit Court of Cook County Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program
Chicago Legal Clinic $426,135
(to support the expansion of the Chancery Court Advice Desk and to provide legal advice and assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure through the Circuit Court of Cook County’s Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program)
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services $351,547
(to support the expansion of the Chancery Court Access to Justice Project, including case screening and legal advice to and representation of homeowners in mediation by CVLS staff attorneys and pro bono attorneys, through the Circuit Court of Cook County’s Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program)
Center for Conflict Resolution $163,986
(to support the expansion of mediation services through the Circuit Court of Cook County’s Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program)
TOTAL: $941,668
Fellowship and Scholarship Grants
The CBF Sun-Times Public Interest Law Fellowship $171,000
(to support 18 five-year fellowships for
• Zenaida Alonzo, staff attorney at Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers - year four
• Hilda Bahena, staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF) - year three
• Kevin Patrick Curran, staff attorney at Life Span – year two
• Amany Ezeldin, staff attorney at Life Span - year one
• Janel Freeman, senior attorney at the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation - year four
• Julie Harcum, staff attorney at LAF - year four
• Rachel Heaston, senior attorney at LAF - year four
• Stephanie Hiebert, staff attorney at Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc – year two
• Beth Johnson, staff attorney & Director of Criminal Records at Cabrini Green Legal Aid – year two
• Ryann Katherine Moran, staff attorney at Uptown People’s Law Center – year one
• Mariangelo Monteiro, staff attorney at Equip for Equality – year one
• Rachel Shapiro, staff attorney at Equip for Equality - year three
• Kathryn Socha, staff attorney at LAF - year four
• Melissa Staas, staff attorney at Family Defense Center – year one
• Monica Torres-Linares, staff attorney at LAF – year one
• Stacey Tutt, managing attorney at Prairie State Legal Services - year three
• Claudia Valenzuela, managing attorney at National Immigrant Justice Center – year two
• Debra Wysong, staff attorney at Equip for Equality - year three
Each Fellowship totals $50,000 payable over five years and helps the Fellows pay back law school and other educational debt)
The CBF Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Public Interest Law Scholarship $35,000
(to support three (3) public interest law scholarships for
• Joseph Gietl (Loyola University Chicago College of Law) – first year
• Lilian Jimenez (DePaul University College of Law) – third year
• Elliot Slosar (DePaul University College of Law) – second year
Each Scholarship totals $40,000 payable over three or four years)
The CBF Kimball R. Anderson and Karen G. Anderson Public Interest Law Fellowship $40,000
(to support 4 five-year fellowships for
• Dennericka Brooks, staff attorney at Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF) – year three
• Elizabeth Cunningham, Youth Futures Attorney at Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Law Project – year one
• Miguel C. Keberlein Gutierrez, supervisory attorney at LAF - year four
• Teri Ross, Program Director at Illinois Legal Aid Online – year two
Each Fellowship totals $50,000 payable over five years)
Equal Justice Works $45,000
(to support one Equal Justice Works two-year fellowship)
The CBF Moses Scholarship $15,000
(to Loyola University Chicago College of Law for the second year of a three-year public interest law scholarship totaling $45,000 to Andrea Callow)
TOTAL: $306,000
Other Grants – Pro Bono and Public Service Award Grants
Thomas H. Morsch Public Service Award $10,000
(to Benjamin S. Wolf of The Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU- Children’s Initiative)
The Leonard Jay Schrager Award of Excellence $2,500
(to John Marshall Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic in honor of Professor Joseph Butler)
The Maurice Weigle Exceptional Young Lawyer Award $2,500
(to Equip for Equality ($1,500) and to AIDS Legal Council of Chicago ($1,000) in honor of Todd A. Solomon)
The Edward J. Lewis II Pro Bono Service Award $2,500
(to Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in honor of Frederick H. Cohen)
The Exelon Outstanding Corporate Counsel Award $2,500
(to CVLS in honor of Mary Anne Smith)
The Richard J. Phelan Public Service Award $2,500
(to AIDS Legal Council of Chicago in honor of Daniel A. Kirk)
Health & Disability Advocates $1,000
(designated by the winner of special Pro Bono and Public Service Awards Luncheon drawing)
TOTAL: $23,500
Other Grants – CBF Young Professionals Board Grants
Illinois Legal Aid Online $15,000
(to support the development of a series of brief multimedia videos on civil procedure topics for the general public, made in partnership with the CBA Young Lawyers Section and the CBF)
Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago $5,000
(to support the Edward J. Lewis II Chicago Lawyers in the Classroom Program at the Goudy School and other schools in the Chicago area; from the CBF Gray Fund)
Fat Tuesday Challenge Grants $5,000
(made on behalf of winners of various challenge events held in conjunction with the 11th Annual Fat Tuesday Challenge co-hosted by the CBF YPB and the Greater Chicago Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators)
Access Living $750
CARPLS $500
Center for Disability & Elder Law (CDEL) $250
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless - Law Project $1,000
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law $250
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services $750
Equip for Equality – Special Education Clinic $500
Health & Disability Advocates (HDA) $1,000
Other Grants – Other Special Grants
The Chicago Bar Association $52,275
(to support CBA membership and complimentary Continuing Legal Education (CLE) for attorneys working at legal aid organizations receiving CBF Organizational Support grants; these memberships, which the CBA provides at a reduced rate, are offered in partnership with the CBA)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago $50,000
(in recognition of LAF’s work to address the foreclosure crisis in Cook County and to assist LAF reach homeowners earlier in the foreclosure process to help them avoid foreclosure and achieve earlier resolution; thanks to a special gift made to the CBF by Pierce and Associates, Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., Codilis & Associates and the Law Bulletin Publishing Company)
Center for Conflict Resolution $25,000
(in recognition of CCR’s work to address the foreclosure crisis in Cook County thanks to a special gift made to the CBF by Pierce and Associates, Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., Codilis & Associates and the Law Bulletin Publishing Company)
Chicago Legal Clinic $25,000
(in recognition of CLC’s work to address the foreclosure crisis in Cook County thanks to a special gift made to the CBF by Pierce and Associates, Attorneys’Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., Codilis & Associates and the Law Bulletin Publishing Company)
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services $25,000
(in recognition of CVLS’s work to address the foreclosure crisis in Cook County thanks to a special gift made to the CBF by Pierce and Associates, Attorneys’Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., Codilis & Associates and the Law Bulletin Publishing Company)
Donors Forum of Chicago $10,000
(to support efforts to strengthen the philanthropic and nonprofit community in the Chicago area)
Illinois Equal Justice Foundation $10,000
(to support the Equal Justice Illinois Campaign, which works to increase state funds to support organizations providing civil legal aid to low-income families and seniors throughout Illinois)
Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services $5,000
(to support the work of LAB, from the CBF Robertson Fund)
Hispanics in Philanthropy $2,500
(to support the Chicago Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities through a staff discretionary grant)
TOTAL: $204,775
GRAND TOTAL: $3,325,068
