California Immigration Legal Fellowship
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- One-time opportunity
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Overview
Geographic Scope: Central Valley and Central Coast regions of California
Program Description: This is a two-year capacity building and professional development program for recent law graduates to become deportation defense practitioners.
Target Participants: Recent law graduates
Program Structure:
- Two-year fellowship
- Current cohort of ten fellows
- Fellows placed across 7 host organizations
- Most host organizations had never provided deportation defense services to their communities prior to the fellowship
Focus Areas:
- Deportation defense
- Immigration legal services
- Capacity building at host organizations
- Professional development
Contact Information:
- Phone: 415-856-0780
- Address: 1 Embarcadero Center Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94111
- Website: changelawyers.org
What California Changelawyers actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 24
- Total given
- $692K
- Median grant
- $30K
- Range
- $10K–$80K
- By dollars: California 82%, District of Columbia 12%, Illinois 6%. Top recipient cities: Oakland, CA; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 29% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
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American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education · Chicago, IL
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California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice · Oakland, CA
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$40K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Immigration
- Professional development
- Capacity building
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