The Illinois Equal Justice Foundation (IEJF) makes grants to help Illinois residents understand how to access and use the legal system to resolve a problem.
Donor Name: Illinois Equal Justice Foundation
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
In the Community Outreach category, the IEJF will consider support for projects that are designed to operate as a “starting point” for people who are trying to access the legal system and determine eligibility for cannabis expungement through coordinated outreach efforts. Preference will be given for efforts to conduct outreach in communities disproportionately impacted, as identified by the R3 areas.
R3 grants fund programs in five areas:
- Civil Legal Aid
- Economic Development
- Reentry
- Violence Prevention
- Youth Development.
Grant Period
The grant period will be 06/01/2024 – 05/31/2025.
Uses of Grant Funds
In the Community Outreach category, the IEJF will make grants to support:
- Operating costs for legal information projects, including personnel costs.
- The distribution and delivery of outreach and self-help materials on cannabis expungement and criminal records relief.
- Information to support registration of individuals for New Leaf Illinois services through the statewide registration portal.
- Projects that will offer printed, video and/or web-based materials on cannabis expungement and related topics and how individuals access services through New Leaf Illinois.
- Projects can include the preparation and distribution of materials; know-your-rights presentations taught by attorneys or under the supervision of a licensed attorney; know your rights or community education events conducted by staff with approved materials; and/or other creative efforts to help give Illinois residents the information and resources to seek legal relief through cannabis expungement.
Eligibility Criteria
In the Community Outreach category, the IEJF will only consider applications from Illinois-based not-for-profit organizations that:
Provide legal information free of charge.
- Conduct community outreach and provide legal information as described in the Purpose section of these guidelines. For organizations that do not have licensed attorneys, applicants will agree to confirm the provision of accurate legal information through Network legal organization grantees and commit to training resources on the unauthorized practice of law.
- Provide legal information and conduct community outreach on questions commonly faced by members of the public in understanding eligibility for cannabis expungement and impacts of a criminal record.
- Provide legal information and conduct outreach in locations that are accessible to the public.
In the Community Outreach category, the IEJF will not consider proposals for:
- Telephone-based services or civil legal services programs’ efforts to provide legal information and self-help assistance as part of their screening and intake systems; and
- General efforts to inform the public about the law, such as Law Day activities; the development and dissemination of law-related curricula to schools; essay contests; or other community legal education initiatives that are not designed to help people address specific legal problems.
For more information, visit IEJF.
