Posted on October 30, 2007	print  e-mail
Deadline: Quarterly

Impact Fund Offers Support for Public Interest Litigation

The Impact Fund is a public foundation that provides grants to nonprofit legal firms, private attorneys, and/or small law firms who seek to advance social justice in the areas of civil and human rights, environmental justice, and/or poverty law. The fund seeks to provide funding for public interest litigation that will potentially benefit a large number of people, lead to significant law reform, or raise public consciousness.

The average grant size is $10,000 to $15,000. The maximum grant amount awarded to any single applicant per year is $25,000.

Grants are made in the general areas of social & environmental justice, human and civil rights, and poverty. The fund is particularly interested in receiving applications addressing systemic deprivations of constitutional or statutory rights in the following areas: Post 9/11 cases involving denial of rights under the guise of "Homeland Security;" Criminal Justice and Immigration; and Education Access and Equity.

Grants are made to private attorneys, small legal firms, or nonprofit legal entities that do not have sufficient access to funding sources. Grants are awarded to cases that could not be effectively prosecuted, and/or in which financial hardship would occur to the applicant, if supplementary funding were not available. Grants are awarded to cover reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses (including non-recoverable costs), such as: deposition expenses, expert fees, investigation expenses, etc.

The Impact Funds awards grants four times per year. Pre-applications are accepted on a continual basis. For the 2007 Winter Cycle, the pre-application deadline is November 24, 2007; and the application deadline is November 30, 2007.

Visit the fund's Web site for complete program guidelines.

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Link to Complete RFP

Primary Subject: Civil and Human Rights
Secondary Subject(s): Education, Environment
Geographic Funding Area: National

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