Organization Website
Twitter: @impactfund
Facebook: Facebook
Primary geographic focus: California Statewide
Organization Type: Provider
LAAC Membership Type: Members
Lists: IOLTA-Funded, IOLTA Support Centers
Tags: Civil Rights, Environmental Justice, Poverty
Acronym or short name: Impact Fund
The Impact Fund provides strategic leadership and support for litigation to achieve economic and social justice. The Impact Fund provides funds for impact litigation in the areas of civil rights, environmental justice, and poverty law, and also offers innovative technical support, training, and expertise on issues that arise in large scale impact litigation. Impact Fund staff serve as lead counsel, co-counsel, and amicus counsel in select class action and impact litigation.
Over the past 21 years, the Impact Fund has expanded its direct services and programs to include trainings, advice and counseling, amicus representation, conferences, and co-counseling. Most notably, the Impact Fund currently heads up a civil rights class action team, handling important and complex class actions with the goal of achieving broad social change.
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