CRLA was founded in 1966 as a nonprofit legal services program. The mission of CRLA is to strive for economic justice and human rights on behalf of California’s rural poor. Today, CRLA has 21 offices, many in rural communities from the Mexican border to Northern California. Each year, CRLA provides more than 40,000 low-income rural Californians with free legal assistance and a variety of community education and outreach programs. Half of CRLA’s resources are committed to multi-client cases that grapple with the root causes of poverty.