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Lake View Nonprofit Among Several Chicago Organizations to Receive Grant From Illinois Bar Foundation
Thirty-one Chicago nonprofit agencies are among 44 nonprofit legal aid organizations statewide that received grants from the Illinois Bar Foundation (IBF), the charitable arm of the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).
Among the Chicago organizations receiving grants are:
Chicago Loop:
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CARPLS Legal Aid, $10,000
Center for Disability and Elder Law, $7,500
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Center for Economic Progress, $5,000
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, $5,000
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers, $10,000
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, $10,000
DePaul University’s Asylum & Immigration Clinic, $7,500
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, $10,000
Equip for Equality, $5,000
Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center, $5,000
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of Chicago, $7,500
Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, $5,000
Illinois Legal Aid Online, $15,000
John Marshall Law School’s Restorative Justice, $5,000
Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing, $7,500
Life Span, $10,000
Calumet Heights:
Family Rescue, $5,000
University Village/Little Italy:
Chicago Lighthouse for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired, $8,000
Little Village:
Chicago Law and Education Foundation, $11,000
Albany Park:
Chicago Irish Immigration Support, $7,500
Near North or Gold Coast:
Loyola University Chicago’s Life After Innocence, $3,000
Lakeview:
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, $5,000
Center on Halsted, $5,000
Equality Illinois Education Project, $5,000
Lawndale:
Lawndale Christian Legal Center, $10,000
Old Town:
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, $10,000
Uptown:
Apna Ghar, $5,000
Uptown People’s Law Center, $5,000
River West:
Cabrini Green Legal Aid, $10,000
River North:
Public Interest Law Initiative, $15,000
Printer’s Row:
The Family Defense Center, $5,000
The mission of the Illinois Bar Foundation is to ensure meaningful access to the justice system, especially for those with limited means, and to assist lawyers who can no longer support themselves due to incapacity. This year, the Foundation will distribute more than $400,000 in grants to legal aid organizations across the state of Illinois, and in Lawyers Care Fund support to attorneys and their families in need. The Illinois Bar Foundation is located at 20 S. Clark St., Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60603, and the phone number is (312) 726-6072.
