Investing in Justice

Current Grantees

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.

The CBF’s current grantees are

Access Living - Civil Rights Project
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA)
CARPLS (Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services)
Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR)
Center for Disability & Elder Law
Center for Economic Progres - 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)
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic
Equip for Equality
The Family Defense Center
First Defense Legal Aid
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
World Relief - Chicago - Immigrant Legal Services