The CBF’s grants ensure that tens of thousands of low-income and disadvantaged Chicago area residents most in need of the protections of our civil legal system have access to justice.
This list represents organizations that receive Organizational Support grants from the CBF. The CBF also supports a number of other special projects and initiatives that advance the CBF’s mission.
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic (CGLA) CARPLS (Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services) Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) Center for Disability & Elder Law Center for Economic Progress - Tax Clinic Centro Romero - Latin American Legal Assistance Services Chicago Coalition for the Homeless - Law Project Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM) Chicago Legal Clinic (CLC) Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS) Community Economic Development Law Project (CEDLP) Domestic Violence Legal Clinic Equip for Equality Evanston Community Defender The Family Defense Center Farmworker Advocacy Project First Defense Legal Aid Health & Disability Advocates (HDA) Illinois Legal Aid OnlineLambda Legal - Midwest Regional Office Latinos Progresando – Immigrant Legal Services Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) Lawyers for the Creative Arts (LCA) Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services (LAB) Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF) Life Span - Center for Legal Services & Advocacy Midwest Center on Law & the Deaf (MCLD) National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) The Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU - Children’s Initiative Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law Uptown People’s Law Center
