Grant Database

Partner Organizations: Legal Aid Society of Orange County Bar Association, Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida. One hundred percent of the requested funding will be allocated to IDignity’s ongoing core program of providing identification assistance. IDignity is requesting $150,000 to cover the expenses of assisting 600 Orlando clients in obtaining their crucial identification documents. Although each client’s case is unique, it takes on average just four hours of volunteer time and $250 to assist in restoring proof of an individual’s identity.

Partner Organization: Three Rivers Legal Services. JALA and TRLS propose a project offering proactive and innovative legal services to promote the lifelong earning potential of at-risk members of the community. The project will provide free legal assistance to seal or expunge arrest records for low-income adults and juveniles in the Third and Fourth Judicial Circuits of Florida. This project seeks to proactively link clients with services earlier, to encourage the acceptance of advantageous diversion options that avoid conviction and ineligibility for sealing/expunging criminal records. In furtherance of this goal, this project will also produce an innovative tool that will be shared with other organizations for efficient referral of the accused. JALA started developing electronic branch-logic software to enable social service and government agencies to determine eligibility for sealing/expunging criminal records for adults (currently in beta testing). This project proposes to build on this tool by adding a juvenile seal/expunge component, and honing its functionality to include intake and referral – qualifying this project as a Florida Innovation Grant. The tool will be integrated into FloridaLawHelp.org and eventually the Florida Legal Access Gateway. Ultimately, at its highest development, the tool could incorporate document assembly capability and facilitate self-screening and generation of pro se petitions for sealing/expunging criminal records.

Partner Organization: Legal Services of North Florida. Two-day, state-wide Summit to educate and train advocates, including legal aid attorneys, social service providers, and government agency personnel, to identify systemic issues faced by the LGBTQ community; to build the capacity of these advocates to address these issues; and to collaborate among these groups to identify issues and to develop materials, trainings and a strategy to meet and address the current needs as well as to continue to address issues as they arise in the future.

Domestic violence and immigration

Senior foreclosure advocacy

Domestic violence

Immigration, employment, anti-bullying

Domestic violence, immigration

Affordable housing, gentrification, community lawyering

Medical legal project

Domestic violence and immigration

Adult guardianship

Institutional legal services, housing discrimination, impact litigation

Institutional legal services, Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, housing, health, economic stability

Drivers license restoration project

Financial stability project

Immigration and domestic violence representation

Family law, domestic violence, immigration, low bono

Responding to surge of Puerto Ricans migrating to Florida

Promise Zone and Thunder Dome Projects