The DC Bar Foundation administers two grant programs supporting legal services providers, the publicly-funded Access to Justice Grant Program and the Private/IOLTA-funded DC Legal Services Grant Program.
Access to Justice Grant Program - Public Grants
Pursuant to a ground-breaking appropriation by the DC City Council secured by the DC Access to Justice Commission, the DC Bar Foundation awarded in 2007 15 grants totaling $2.89 million to legal services providers in the District to increase the number of lawyers doing housing work and to bring more lawyers into underserved communities in the District. NeighborhoodInfo DC prepared a map of legal services offices in DC, illustrating how legal services are now more accessible in some of the neediest neighborhoods in our city. The City Council has annually appropriated funds to support these critically-needed services, and in 2013, the Bar Foundation awarded a total of $3.17 million in publicly funded Access to Justice Grants. The 2013 recipients of Access to Justice Grants are listed below.
2013 Access to Justice Grants - Public Grantees
* denotes new program
Brief Services Unit* - Neghborhood Legal Services Program
Community Legal Interpreter Bank – Ayuda
Child Support Court-Based Legal Services Project – Bread for the City & Legal Aid Society of DC
DC Jail Access Project — University Legal Services
Domestic Violence Community Legal Services -- Bread for the City
Domestic Violence Underserved Community Response -- Legal Aid Society of DC
Generations Teen Parent Access Project – Children’s Law Center
Housing and Community Justice Project -- Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
Landlord-Tenant Court-Based Legal Services Project – Bread for the City & Legal Aid Society of DC
Landlord-Tenant Court Attorney of the Day Project Support -- DC Law Students in Court
Project END* - Ayuda
Project HELP --Legal Counsel for the Elderly
Reentry Community Legal Services* -- Our Place, DC
School Discipline Legal Services Project – Advocates for Justice and Education
Southeast Community Lawyering Project -- Bread for the City
Southeast DC Healthy Together Project -- Children’s Law Center
Southeast Legal Services Expansion – Whitman-Walker Health
Southeast Neighborhood Access Project -- Legal Aid Society of DC
Southeast Workers Rights Clinic* - DC Employment Justice Center
Ward 7 - Polk Street Office - Neighborhood Legal Serivces Program
DC Legal Services Grant Program - Private/IOLTA Grants
The DC Bar Foundation makes annual grants in June of each year to legal services providers in the District of Columbia. These grants are supported by IOLTA funds received in the District, and by the generous contributions of DC law firms and lawyers, and others These grants provide general support and program-specific support to legal service providers, and support cross-cutting grants and technical assistance for grantees. Click here for general information on applying for an DC Legal Services Grant.
The DC Bar Foundation awarded a total of $685,000 grants to 19 organizations in June 2011. The organizations listed below, presented in alphabetical order, are current recipients of DC Bar Foundation grants.
2012 DC Legal Services Grants- Private/IOLTA Grantees
Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc.
Archdiocesan Legal Network of Catholic Charities of the
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
Bread for the City Legal Clinic
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition
D.C. Employment Justice Center
D.C. Law Students in Court Program
D.C. Prisoners' Project - Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs
Legal Aid Society of D.C. – Appellate Litigation Project
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
Neighborhood Legal Services Program
University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law -
