Right to Counsel (RTC) - Eviction Program
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Eight municipalities across Connecticut
Overview
Statewide Right to Counsel program making attorneys available to eligible tenants at risk of eviction.
Launch Date
January 2022 (Connecticut became the second state in the country to launch this program)
Partner Organizations
- Connecticut Legal Services
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center
- Greater Hartford Legal Aid
- New Haven Legal Assistance Association (provides representation)
- Statewide Legal Services (staffs hotline for screening and referrals)
Services
Free attorney representation for eligible tenants at risk of eviction; hotline screening for eligibility and referrals.
What Connecticut Bar Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 13
- Total given
- $26.27M
- Median grant
- $794K
- Range
- $11K–$11.34M
- By dollars: Connecticut 100%. Top recipient cities: Hartford, CT; Middletown, CT; New Haven, CT.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 0% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Connecticut Legal Services · Middletown, CT
To provide legal ser
$11.34M
New Haven Legal Assistance · New Haven, CT
To provide legal ser
$5.52M
Greater Hartford Legal Aid · Hartford, CT
To provide legal ser
$5.05M
Statewide Legal Services · Wethersfield, CT
To provide brief leg
$916K
Center for Children's Advocacy · Hartford, CT
To provide legal ser
$861K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Housing
- Human services
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