ChangeLawyers California Immigration Legal Fellowship
Funding Amount
Varies
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Every two years
- Tracked since
- September 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Individuals
Geography
- California
Overview
The California Immigration Legal Fellowship is a two-year fellowship for recent law graduates to become deportation-defense practitioners in the Central Valley/Central Coast; the current cohort is ten fellows across seven host orgs.
How to Apply
Recent law graduates apply for the California Immigration Legal Fellowship, a two-year capacity-building and professional-development program to become deportation-defense practitioners in the Central Valley and Central Coast, placed across host organizations.
What California Changelawyers actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 24
- Total given
- $692K
- Median grant
- $30K
- Range
- $10K–$80K
- 82% of its 2024 grant dollars went to recipients in California, where this grant's project is located.
- 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.
Example grants
For the People · Oakland, CA
Legal fellowship
$80K
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area · San Francisco, CA
Legal fellowship
$80K
Equal Justice Works · Washington, DC
Legal fellowship
$42K
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education · Chicago, IL
Legal empowerment fund
$40K
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice · Oakland, CA
Legal empowerment fund
$40K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Immigration
Project Locations
- CA
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