Deadline: 7 April 2020
The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and/or small law firms who seek to advance justice in the areas of civil and human rights, environmental justice, and/or poverty law.
Funding Sectors
- Social Justice: The Impact Fund provides grants and legal support to assist in human and civil right cases.
- Environmental Justice: The Impact Fund provides grants to support impact litigation for environmental justice, with the focus on marginalized communities. These are often cases no one else will support.
- Economic Justice: The Impact Fund provides financial and other forms of support to cases fighting for economic justice. From workers’ right to consumer protection for vulnerable populations, impact litigation is a powerful tool to hold corporations accountable.
Funding Information
Since being founded in 1992, the Impact Fund has granted more than $7 million in recoverable grants. They award grants four times per year, most within the range of US$10,000 to US$50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Impact Fund makes recoverable grants to lawyers, law firms, and nonprofit organizations involved in impact litigation. Most of their grants are for one particular case, but occasionally they fund a series of cases bound by a common strategy.
- They fund civil rights, human rights, anti-poverty, and environmental justice cases that will affect a marginalized group. Most of their grants are for class actions, but they also fund multi-plaintiff and environmental justice cases that aim to significantly affect a larger system.
- Impact Fund grants may be used for out-of-pocket litigation expenses such as expert fees and discovery costs, but not for attorney’s fees, staff, or other overhead.
For more information, visit https://www.impactfund.org/about-legal-case-grants