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Overview

Legal Empowerment Fund

Status: Invitation only in 2026

Geographic Scope: California

Background: The Legal Empowerment Fund is a grant opportunity launched by California ChangeLawyers in 2021. The fund was created as a response to the deepening public consciousness about the importance of law on social justice issues and the need for lawyers of all backgrounds to rise to the challenges posed by the ongoing racial reckoning and the lack of equal justice under the law.

Mission & Focus Areas: The fund adopts a broad-based approach to harnessing the power of lawyers for good. Specifically, it seeks to:

  • Foster movement lawyering

  • Build the capacity of smaller and newer legal organizations

  • Support new, diverse leaders in the legal profession
  • Priority Areas:

  • Movement Lawyering

  • Leadership Pathways (General)

  • Leadership Pathways (Fellowship)

  • Capacity Building
  • Eligible Organization Types: Legal organizations, including nonprofit legal services organizations

    Contact Information:

  • Phone: 415-856-0780

  • Address: 1 Embarcadero Center Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94111

  • Website: changelawyers.org
  • Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    nonprofitscapacity-buildingsocial-justicehuman-rights

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