Where The Money Goes

Panhandle

Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle

To provide pro bono legal services to under served immigrants and refugees in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle.

$12,000

Centers for Children and Families, Inc.

To ensure court referrals to Kids First take place in safe environments with law enforcement presence that supports healthy interactions between all family members. 

$5,000

Downtown Women's Center

To support Drug Court referrals to the Recovery Program

$20,000

Family Support Services of Amarillo

To provide financial assistance to survivors pursuing civil legal remedies for protective orders, divorce, and custody proceedings.

$10,000

Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture

To support the creation of an exhibition and learning guide for Texas schools honoring Charlye O. Farris the 1st African American woman licensed to practice law in Texas.

$15,000

Northeast

Alliance for Children

To provide funding for partners from the district attorney’s office, local law enforcement, and/or CPS representatives to attend the statewide Crimes Against Children Conference.

$10,000

Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Texas

To provide leadership development for ages 13-18 and a mini camp aiming to educate teens on law enforcement and their rights.

$9,250

Champions for Children

To provide a 2-hour training to 1500 childcare teachers on child neglect and abuse identification

$15,500

Children's Advocacy Center of Smith County

To provide equipment for the second medical examination room for the SANE program.

$25,047

City of Forney

To provide Cellebrite Certification for Police Officers.

$4,500

Dallas Children's Advocacy Center

To provide training and professional development for DCAC Forensic Interviewers and Family Advocates.

$15,000

Dallas County/Dallas County District Attorney's Office

To assist in closing short-term transportation gaps for AIM Court program participants.

$12,500

East Texas Immigrant Advocacy and Resource Center

 To serve low-income immigrants by assisting with funding for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) renewal costs and first-generation passports.

$15,000

Family Compass

To provide court-mandated counseling for low-income divorcing parents and cover client fees to encourage and grow participation.

$10,000

Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Inc.

To  assist with salary expenses in hiring a Supervising Attorney.

$25,000

Kid Net Foundation dba Jonathan's Place

To provide transportation and supervision for victims of child abuse in Emergency Shelter to meet with attorneys, attend court, and receive crucial services.

$20,000

Lone Star CASA

To recruit, train, and supervise advocates to offer in-home supportive interventions to families who are being investigated by CPS but whose children remain at home.

$7,500

Methodist Justice Ministry

To provide filing fees, process servers, drug and DNA labs, records, mediations, etc.for family law cases protecting victims of abuse who are living in poverty.

$7,500

Metrocare Services

To assist in building a new Child & Adolescent Mental Health Clinic for youth, including justice involved youth, who will receive integrated, evidence-based services.

$10,000

Mil Mujeres, Inc.

To increase the level of access to direct legal services for vulnerable Latina immigrants who are survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Texas. 

$8,500

Mission Granbury

To provide legal representation for residential and non-residential domestic violence victims in the Family Violence Program.

$30,000

Northeast Texas CASA, Inc.

 To expand the partner relations team for the Texarkana Children's Advocacy Center.

$15,000

One Heart Project

To begin expansion of services into Rockwall County, serving up to 48 justice-involved and at-risk youth annually.

$40,000

Our Daily Bread

To provide legal assistance to those experiencing homelessness in Denton County.

$25,000

Simply Grace

To fund leadership training for House Managers at 5 transitional living facilities and 4 key staff, including training on how to guide clients to legal assistance.

$10,000

Texas Muslim Women's Foundation, Inc.

To support legal internships, translation, and pro-bono legal services of Family and Immigration law for underserved survivors of domestic violence.

$8,100

The Heights Ellis County

To incorporate legal advocacy in a centralized location for domestic violence victims in Ellis County.

$10,000

The University of Texas Foundation, Inc.

To implement a strategy of multiple experiential learning to promote the law profession and early engagement of underrepresented scholars. 

$30,000

The Way Back

To expand comprehensive re-entry services, expand services to more women with specialized needs, and help provide transitional housing.   

$17,500

Traffick911

To secure legal services and cover legal fees for survivors of child sex trafficking as needs emerge throughout the year.

$15,000

Trinity Kids, Inc.

 To provide court-mandated parenting classes to parents in North Texas who are on the verge of losing their children or working to regain custody.

$10,000

YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth

To provide transportation costs and conference fees for students involved in the Youth and Government program and Junior Youth and Government program.

$10,000

West

CASA of El Paso, Inc.

To provide an in-person Abuse Prevention Training Program to help staff and advocates recognize inappropriate or suspicious interactions and how to respond effectively.

$5,000

Child Crisis Center of El Paso

To provide funding to renovate the shelter.

$10,000

City of El Paso Municipal Court

To provide the Teen Court Program support for the continuation of positive peer pressure, in a real Justice Program run by teens for teens.

$18,807

El Paso County

To provide additional assistance to Pro-se individuals in family law cases.

$28,000

Lydia Patterson Institute

To provide student summer stipends for internships with the El Paso County Public Defenders Office.

$10,000

Central

Alzheimer's Association

To provide educational resources and assistance to caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias via Legal and Financial Seminars and Conference.

$10,000

Asian Family Support Services of Austin

To provide education on legal rights and resources to survivors of domestic violence from under served or low-income communities in Central Texas. 

$5,000

Austin Bar Foundation's Veterans Legal Assistance Program

To purchase and implement a Volunteer Management and Volunteer Engagement solutions systems offered by Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofits.

$21,500

Austin Classical Guitar

To provide daily guitar classes in 5 Texas juvenile justice facilities, which are the only fully accredited arts programs for incarcerated youth in the state. 

$10,000

Baylor University School of Law

 To provide the initial equipment and administrative support to establish the proposed family law clinic for the McLennan County Court.

$13,992

Better at Last

 To purchase equipment needed to host lectures/workshops to better educate older adults on important Elder Law topics.

$10,000

CASA for the Highland Lakes Area

To support transportation funding for volunteer advocates of CASA for the Highland Lakes Area.

$30,000

CASA of Central Texas, Inc.

To enhance communications efforts to recruit more community volunteers to serve more children who have been abused and neglected.

$5,375

CASA of Williamson County Texas

To hire an additional advocate supervisor allowing to serve more children in Williamson County who have experienced abused and neglected.

$20,000

Catholic Charities of Central Texas

To replace aging equipment that Immigration Legal Services uses to provide legal aid and access interpretation services to meet the increased language needs of clients.

$11,000

Central Texas Parent Advocacy Group

To allow for the expansion of the program into additional counties in Central Texas. 

$25,000

ME3LJ Center

To expand reentry outreach and services to the public via radio and other media related platforms. 

$5,000

Texas Appleseed

To support a pilot project to train attorneys on how to help survivors of domestic violence claim identity theft if they were victims of coerced debt.

$10,000

Unbound Now

To support advocacy work which offers 24/7 on-call crisis response in Austin, including proactive work in detention centers and accompanying victims to court. 

$10,000

Williamson County

To provide in-house, evidence-based Moral Recognition Therapy groups (MRT), individual and family mental health treatment, and alcohol/drug use monitoring to ensure public safety.

$27,215

Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center

To build capacity to meet the critical and increasing needs of kids who have been abused. 

$10,000

Youth Justice Alliance

 To expand support for aspiring first-gen lawyers in Texas to NEW communities including El Paso, Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland, and Hidalgo County.

$23,000

Southeast

AccessHealth

To partially fund a full-time lawyer in-house to address the legal needs of disadvantaged medical patients.

$15,000

Avenue Community Development Corporation

To establish accessible information and guidance on home ownership and housing with regard to real estate law.

$10,000

CASA of Galveston County

To assist children and youth in understanding their rights under the CPS Rights of Children and Youth in Foster Care in Texas.

$7,500

Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas

To provide legal services to the underserved and vulnerable immigrant population through our Immigration Education and Awareness Initiative.

$5,000

Cherish Our Children, Inc (COCI)

To provide enrichment and mentoring opportunities for program participants.

$12,500

Child Advocates of Fort Bend

To provide family-strengthening and prevention outreach to child victims of abuse.

$5,000

Children 4 Tomorrow

To provide a non-intrusive assessment/observational setting for families ordered by the courts to receive an assessment/evaluation due to custody issues.

$27,500

Children's Safe Harbor

To partially fund a regional training conference for partner investigative agencies to receive education on the collaborative approach to child abuse investigations.

$5,000

Covenant House Texas

To provide legal counsel to homeless youth and legal training for staff

$15,000

DIFY Foundation

To assist,educate and connect legal immigrants and refugees recently arrived with legal and community resources.

$24,520

Experiential Education Department-Thurgood Marshall School of Law

To assist in hiring a dedicated staff attorney responsible for reviewing, adjudicating, managing summer cases, and representing clients during summer hearings.

$15,000

Foster Care Advocacy Center

To provide a Case Manager to support and expand a pro bono program that provides legal services to prevent the removal of children into foster care.

$15,000

Galveston County Clubhouse Inc.

To provide startup funding for the Clubhouse model of mental health recovery.

$8,800

Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project

To provide comprehensive, trauma-informed legal services.

$10,000

Harris County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 2

To create a legal resource center for self-represented litigants and members of the public served by Precinct 1-2 JP Court.

$25,000

Hispanic Bar Association of Houston

To provide a stipend for Hispanic Law Students attending Houston area Law Schools to intern and eventually pursue a career with Non-Profits and the Government sector.

$16,000

Hope For Three

To provide crisis intervention training and outreach to members of law enforcement and first responders to respond to a mental health crisis effectively.

$4,500

Houston Bar Association

To provide increased lactation facilities at the Harris County Court Complex to ensure equal access to justice for nursing mothers whether as jurors, lawyers, or the public.

$24,500

Houston PEARLS Foundation

To provide programming which teaches independent adult living skill to girls to break the generational cycle of poverty, DFPS and justice system involvement.

$25,000

IEA - Inspire, Encourage, Achieve

To enhance court coordination and advocacy services, reduce youth recidivism, and promote education and community well-being in Southeast Texas.

$5,000

Justice Forward

To equalize successful community reentry for housed and unhoused individuals participating in and graduating from Harris County Specialty Courts.

$20,000

Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation

To provide heirship legal assistance to low-income Texans and assist clients in completing a transfer on death deed.

$20,000

Sojourn Landing (dba The Landing)

To help victims of human trafficking navigate legal needs and meet the conditions of probation and parole through flexible financial assistance and case management.

$5,000

South Texas College of Law Houston

To provide stipends for postgraduate fellowships in the Low Income Tax Clinic who will plan and execute community education and outreach programs.

$26,400

Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston

To provide resources for the state's first general LBGT law clinic.

$10,000

The Council on Recovery

To improve outcomes for justice-involved persons with substance use, mental illness, and co-occurring disorders.

$15,000

Valley & Gulf Coast

Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc.

To support the development of an estate planning pilot project regarding real estate that will help minimize estate and title issues for low-income families.

$38,500

Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Inc.

To make estate planning, guardianship, and other less restrictive alternatives such as power of attorneys accessible through low-cost services.

$15,000

City of McAllen

To revamp the City of McAllen's Municipal Court's Teen Court Program. 

$7,965

Equal Justice America

To fund two summer law student fellows, from Texas-based law schools, to provide a variety of pro bono legal services working out of Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.

$10,000

Family Counseling Service

To provide upgrades to technology used in victim & offender services to lower recidivism rates.

$3,000

Hope Of South Texas, Inc

 To cover conference expenses for employees of Hope and possible MDT partner.

$8,686

Merced Housing Texas

To provide free legal services to homeowners who live on low to extremely low incomes to proactively break cycles of generational poverty.

$30,000

Neighborhood Defender Service

To allow the creation of outreach efforts to provide housing defense services to low-income residents in Harris County.

$10,000

Proyecto Azteca

To educate South Texas low-income homeowners on solar panel scams, raising awareness of predatory practices and safeguarding their rights and homes.

$20,000

Voz de Ninos

 To increase the number of CASA volunteers and increase the number of youth affected by sex trafficking who can be served. 

$36,000

Women's Empowerment Legal Center

To provide free legal services to survivors domestic violence. 

$5,500

Statewide

Austin Young Lawyers Association Foundation

To produce a video to educate pro se litigants on how to execute the voir dire process in Texas JP and Municipal court systems.

$15,250

Bill of Rights Institute

To provide Texas teachers with training in our Founding principles-based curriculum on civics and US History

$10,000

Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas, Inc

To provide ongoing training and support on HIPAA compliance for CACTX’s network to ensure the privacy and protection for child abuse victims and their families.

$7,500

Conference on Crimes Against Women, Inc.

To provide survivors of gender-based violence with trauma-informed representation by educating attorneys on best methods to support survivors and hold offenders accountable.

$19,000

Innocence Project of Texas

To assist with increasing costs for forensic testing and fees for subject matter experts in order to help free innocent clients.

$25,000

Kidsave International

To assist older kids in foster care so they don't age out alone, through outreach to TX CASAs, attorneys, courts & child welfare stakeholders about the host family visit model.

$25,000

Mercy Gate Ministries, Inc.

To develop and teach online, customized Court Training to Support Victims/Defendants of Sexual Exploitation classes to court officials and judicial stakeholders statewide.

$7,500

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)- Texas

To create, publish, and distribute the 7th edition of the "Texas Criminal Procedure and the Offender with Mental Illness: An Analysis and Guide."

$34,264

Ranch Hands Rescue

To provide assistance in legal fees and costs incurred to help male clients who have been victims of sex trafficking. 

$10,000

Respite Care of San Antonio, Inc.

To ensure the safety and preserve the legal rights of children in two emergency shelters by providing 24/7/365 security services.

$1,875

State Bar of Texas Legal Services Office

To provide scholarships for Access to Justice summer interns.

$20,000

Texas Advocacy Project, Inc.

To coordinate a statewide pro-bono, civil legal services program for poor and under-served victims of power-based abuse. 

$20,000

Texas Center for Child and Family Services

To provide judges and attorneys information about Community-Based Care and answer questions about what to expect as this change occurs in the child welfare system.  

$12,345

Texas Center for the Judiciary, Inc.

To further judicial expertise, provide a safe environment to exchange ideas, and offer an opportunity for collegiality among the judiciary and its partners.

$30,000

Texas Network of Youth Services

To amplify voices of at-risk young people to prevent justice involvement and influence youth-informed, equitable justice systems.

$5,772

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc.

To improve access to foster resources by updating the Aging Out guide, redesigning TFYJ Project materials, and distributing redesigned outreach items.  

$25,000

Texas Young Lawyers Association

To create a multimedia website that will educate prospective and current law students about the legal profession and attending law school. 

$45,000