Alexandra House

$2,500

To maintain and expanded their Order for Protection project.

Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project

$2,500

To provide core services and training to advocates, battered women and the general public across Minnesota.

CSD of Minnesota

$1,500

To support systems advocacy for deaf and hard of hearing battered women.

Center for Homicide Research

$1,500

To identify characteristics of GLBT homicides to develop better understanding that will aid law enforcement in solving cases.

Central Minnesota Legal Services

$2,000

To provide language access services for the CMLS volunteer attorney programs in St. Cloud and Willmar.

Centro Legal

$2,000

To support Proyecto Ayuda, which provides legal services to victim survivors of domestic violence and child victims of abuse and neglect.

Chrysalis, A Center for Women

$1,500

To support their Legal Assistance for Women (LAW) program which provides family law, GLBT, employment law and child protection assistance.

Civil Society

$2,000

To provide direct immigration legal services to international human trafficking victims.

Community Mediation Services

$3,000

To provide and expand organization capacity to provide mediation services to Spanish-speaking residents of Hennepin County.

CornerHouse

$500

To support program that interviews children and vulnerable adults who have reported sexual abuse, witnessed violent crime or experienced other extreme trauma.

Cornerstone

$2,000

To support its Legal Services program which includes Family Court and Criminal Court advocacy for domestic violence victims as well as a  new project to create a stalking protocol in conjunction with the St. Louis Park and Bloomington city attorneys and police departments.

Council on Crime and Justice

$1,500

To support legal curriculum for the GAUGE Project to promote fairer hiring practices among employers with regard to persons with criminal histories.

Division of Indian Work

$500

To support American Indian legal advocate at the Hennepin County Domestic Abuse Service Center.

Episcopal Community Services

$1,500

To support a legal clinic for the ECS Fairmont Family Resource Center.

Family & Children’s Service

$1,500

To support the Jobs and Affordable Housing Coalition’s outreach efforts to 600 low-income tenants in the Whittier and Phillips neighborhoods.

Farmers Legal Action Group

$2,500

To provide legal services to family farmers in the Upper Midwest and focus the federal government’s imminent new disaster recovery program to the best interests of family farmers.

Community Relations Committee (HCBA) and Civic Education Committee (MSBA)

$2,000

To revise, print and distribute up to 15,000 copies of the Legal Stuff booklet in the next three years to schools, community agencies, law enforcement groups, youth services, churches, and groups working with teens.

HOME Line

$1,000

To support law-related educational presentations about the rights and responsibilities of renting.

Housing Access Center

$2,000

To prevent homelessness through legal advocacy for tenants in eviction, conciliation court, rent escrow and tenant remedies actions.

Immigrant Law Center

$2,000

To provide legal services to low-income immigrant and refugee communities.

Indian Child Welfare Law Center

$2,000

To provide legal services to low-income American Indian families and education regarding ICWA provisions to court and child protection personnel.

The Innocence Project

$2,000

To help provide free legal services to indigent and potentially wrongfully convicted prisoners and to educate community members and the public about wrongful convictions.

Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers

$5,000

To coordinate a mailing to all lawyers registered in Minnesota to generate awareness of LCL and its services and to prepare a brochure focused on judges.

Legal Assistance to the Disadvantaged Committee (MSBA)

$5,000

To support staffing and direct costs, including hosting fees, for www.ProJusticeMn.org.

LegalCORPS

$2,500

To support continued work providing pro bono legal services to income-eligible Minnesota nonprofit organizations and micro-enterprises.

Legal Rights Center

$2,000

To provide community-based and prevention-oriented criminal and juvenile legal services to over 1,200 clients.

Loan Repayment Assistance Program

$6,000

To help meet the growing need for loan repayment assistance for new lawyers taking positions serving disadvantaged Minnesotans.

MAO Legal Services

$1,000

To provide elder law advice, representation and community education seminars to adults with disabilities and adults age 55 and older.

Mahnomen County Victim Resources Program

$1,500

To support their victim-witness service program.

Mediation Works North

$1,000

To meet increasing need for reduced fee services for low income parents in court-ordered divorce education or mediation.

Minnesota AIDS Project

$2,000

To support legal program for clients living with or affected by HIV disease in Minnesota.

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

$1,500

To provide legal representation of Liberian asylum seekers and other Liberians residing in Minnesota who may face the termination of their Temporary Protected Status after nearly 20 years in the United States.

Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association

$750

To support participation and training in the 12th annual Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court.

Minnesota Justice Foundation

$5,000

To support two summer clerkships for law students in greater Minnesota.

Minnesota Law-Related Education (MSBA)

$3,000

To support the statewide Mock Trial program.

Minnesota Legal Services Coalition

$1,000

To support the cost of a web-based tutorial on www.LawHelpMn.org.

Minnesota Senior Federation Upper Midwest Pension Rights Project

$1,500

To support ongoing work to serve Minnesota workers, retirees and their beneficiaries with pension counseling and claims assistance.

MSBA Criminal Law Section

$1,000

To produce a video regarding methamphetamine use among teenagers to be used as an educational tool.

National Native American Law Student Association

$2,000

To cover the cost of hosting 50 teams of law students from across the country at the NNALSA Moot Court Competition.

Native Vote Alliance of Minnesota

$2,250

To cover costs associated with publishing a Voter Resource Manual.

Neighborhood Involvement Program

$1,500

To continue providing services for low-income individuals as part of NIP’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Center.

PACER Center

$1,500

To provide law-related workshops and trainings for PACER’s Juvenile Justice Project.

Pennington-Red Lake County Crime Victim Services

$1,500

To provide legal advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault and general crime.

Pro Bono Legal Corps Project

$3,000

To support program linking attorneys and law students to pro bono work (through Volunteer Lawyers Network and Minnesota Justice Foundation).

Range Women’s Advocates

$1,000

To support court advocacy, staff and education and training to support clients served by RWA.

Resource Center of the Americas

$2,000

To support the Workers Rights Center which provides legal education and assistance to Latino immigrant workers in the greater Twin Cities area.

Resource Center for Fathers and Families

$1,000

To provide legal services to low-income and illiterate clients to end family domestic violence.

Rivers of Hope

$1,500

To provide legal advocacy to victims of family violence in Wright and Sherburne counties and to provide training to law enforcement personnel, prosecutors’ offices and other domestic violence agencies.

Ruth’s House of Hope

$2,750

To support legal assistance, educational outreach, and advocacy services for domestic violence victims and their children.

Sexual Assault Program of Beltrami, Cass & Hubbard Counties

$1,500

To provide legal advocacy services to sexual violence victims.

Sexual Assault Program of Northern St. Louis County

$2,500

To support legal advocacy services and staff education.

Sojourner Project

$1,000

To support community-based programs that assist battered women in maintaining housing stability and train police and criminal justice personnel on domestic violence issues.

Sojourner Project

$1,000

To support a child safety initiative called Project THRIVE to address needs of child victims of domestic abuse.

Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services

$2,000

To support the Senior Legal Fair to be held at the St. Paul Rivercentre.

Springboard for the Arts

$1,500

To support the expansion of their attorney referral service to include greater Minnesota lawyers.

Sunrise Center Against Sexual Abuse

$1,000

To provide support for their legal advocacy program for sexual assault and domestic abuse victims of Koochiching and Lake of the Woods counties.

Tubman Family Alliance

$1,500

To support their Family Violence Legal Advocacy Program.

Workers Interfaith Network (F/K/A Twin Cities Religion and Labor Network)

$1,000

To partially support the development and implementation of a program to educate low-wage and immigrant workers about their workplace rights.