Project ID
- purpose: help people get the photo-issued IDs that they need for homes, jobs, food, medical care, and so much more
- more info: Charity Navigator
Carolina Migrant Network
- purpose: to provide legal services for individuals in removal proceedings
- more info: Charity Navigator, Immigration Advocates Network
Communities Resist
- purpose: a community-based law office that partners with communities of color in Brooklyn and Queens to combat predatory capitalism, gentrification and structural racism
- more info: Charity Navigator
Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic
- purpose: to advance the rights of the immigrant population in East Los Angeles through direct legal services, education, and community empowerment while teaching law students effective immigrants’ rights lawyering skills in a real-world setting
- more info: Charity Navigator
Immigrant Justice Corps
- purpose: to recruit, train, and populate the immigration field with the highest quality legal advocates to create a new generation of leaders with a lifelong commitment to immigrant justice
- more info: Charity Navigator, Fordham Law Review (2023)
Dakota Plains Legal Services
- purpose: to promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of our low income clients through quality legal assistance
- more info: Charity Navigator
Maryland Legal Aid
- purpose: advocate with and for Marylanders experiencing poverty to achieve equity and social justice through free civil legal services, community collaboration, and systems change
- more info: Charity Navigator
Texas Defender Service
- purpose: fight for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education
- more info: Charity Navigator
Orlando Center for Justice
- purpose: to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation
- more info: Charity Navigator
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- purpose: provides legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other legal resources at no cost to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists across the country
- more info: Media Bias/Fact Check, Wikipedia, Charity Navigator
Beyond Legal Aid
- purpose: unites lawyers and activists in a collaborative pursuit for justice by leveraging legal services to benefit the most marginalized communities and individuals
- more info: Charity Navigator
Project Safeguard
- purpose: empowers and partners with people who have experienced gender-based violence, helping them navigate a course of survivor-driven justice through expert, trauma-informed legal advocacy and representation
- more info: Charity Navigator
Center for Medicare Advocacy
- purpose: to advance access to comprehensive Medicare coverage, health equity, and quality health care for older people and people with disabilities by providing exceptional legal analysis, education, and advocacy
- more info: Charity Navigator
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
- purpose: provide holistic legal services that include social support services and advocacy for individuals and communities negatively impacted by the criminal legal system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Greater Chicago Legal Clinic
- purpose: passionate, community-based legal advocates helping underserved families and individuals in the Chicago area navigate the justice system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Advocacy Inc.
- purpose: to protect and promote the interests of at-risk children by providing low or no cost legal and support services to New Mexico families
- more info: Charity Navigator
LexCollective
- purpose: build transnational interdisciplinary teams with impacted communities to reimagine solutions in order to tackle the most extreme forms of injustice worldwide
- more info: GlobalGiving
The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
- purpose: to use the law to make justice a reality for our neighbors who struggle with homelessness and poverty…combining representation, systemic reform, policy and budget advocacy, and community engagement to achieve housing justice for DC’s lowest income residents
- more info: Charity Navigator, Spur Local, Wikipedia
Transgender Law Center
- purpose: changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression
- more info: Charity Navigator
OVD-Info
- purpose: an independent media and human rights defense group focused on monitoring and combating repressions in Russia
- more info: GlobalGiving, Wikipedia
Children's Legal Defense Center
- purpose: a nonprofit legal assistance organization in Hargeisa, Somaliland that defends wrongfully and unjustly imprisoned children
- more info: GlobalGiving
Legal Aid Works
- purpose: provides free, high-quality, civil legal assistance to low income individuals and families
- more info: Immigration Advocates Network, Charity Navigator
Texas Legal Services Center
- purpose: to ensure equal justice for all Texans by educating, empowering, and representing vulnerable people while reshaping the greater legal system that impacts us all
- more info: Charity Navigator
The Center for Death Penalty Litigation
- purpose: a non-profit law firm that represents people on North Carolina’s death row and serves as a clearinghouse for accurate and timely information about the North Carolina death penalty
- more info: Charity Navigator
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
- purpose: removes barriers to justice through free civil legal help, community engagement, and advocacy for equitable laws
- more info: Charity Navigator
Texas Fair Defense Project
- purpose: to fight to end the criminalization of poverty in Texas
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass
Legal Hand
- purpose: to help the underprivileged avoid and overcome civil legal hurdles without having to incur burdensome legal fees or be forced to navigate the legal system alone
- more info: Charity Navigator
Legal Council for Health Justice
- purpose: uses the power of the law to secure dignity, opportunity, and well-being for people facing barriers due to illness or disability
- more info: Charity Navigator
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
- purpose: to support individuals and communities in effecting significant, positive changes
- more info: Charity Navigator
Southern Nevada Senior Law Program
- purpose: provides legal services at no-cost to seniors aged 60 years and older in Southern Nevada
- more: Charity Navigator