The American Bar Endowment’s Opportunity Grant Program supports new, boots-on-the-ground, innovative programs and projects that serve the immediate and critical legal needs of the public and are of importance to the legal profession and its concerns for access to justice.
Donor Name: American Bar Endowment
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The ABE Opportunity Grant Program funding focus areas include:
- Increasing access to justice, especially for vulnerable and underserved populations using innovations to legal services delivery, capacity-building, or pro bono service.
- Improvement of the justice system, including ensuring equal justice and elimination of bias; and
- Increasing public understanding of legal rights and responsibilities so people can recognize legal problems and know how to address them.
The ABE will consider projects/programs that, for example:
- build organizational capacity to serve clients better (funded projects include efforts focused on upgrading or adding a client online intake system and creating on-demand training for pro bono lawyers so services can expand);
- develop tools, technology, or approaches that the broader legal community could use (funded proposals include those involving translation of immigration forms and instructions into multiple languages, development of an app to assist disaster survivors and pro bono lawyers in gathering needed paperwork for legal claims, and the addition of a petition generator to a client online service portal); or
- document/prove a best practice (funded projects include the examination of public defense best practices and reporting results, and the analysis of eviction data in rural areas to drive better prevention programming).
Funding Information
- The Opportunity Grant Program dollars are limited – the ABE awards up to a total of $300,000 each year. Grant proposals requesting support of $25,000 or less.
- Grant periods are one year or less.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be a 501(c)(3) or in a fiscal relationship with such an entity
- Your project must be law-related
- Your project must be new and innovative
For more information, visit American Bar Endowment.
