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 Special Projects and initiatives, Fellowships and Scholarships and other grants that advance the CBF’s mission.
The CBF’s current Organizational Support grantees are:
Access Living – Legal Services Department
Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA)
CARPLS (Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services)
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago – Legal Assistance
Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR)
Center for Disability & Elder Law (CDEL)
Center for Economic Progress – Tax Clinic
Centro Romero – Latin American Legal Assistance Services
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation – Sexual Assault Justice Project
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless – Law Project
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM)
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS)
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic (DVLC)
First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA)
Health & Disability Advocates (HDA)
Indo-American Center – Citizenship and Immigration Services
James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy
Latinos Progresando – Immigration Legal Services
Lawndale Christian Legal Center
Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH)
Lawyers for the Creative Arts (LCA)
Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services (LAS)
Life Span – Center for Legal Services & Advocacy
Midwest Center on Law and the Deaf (MCLD)
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)
The Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU – Children’s Initiative
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
World Relief Chicago – Immigrant Legal Services
