Our Funding

CLS is funded through grants and donations. We receive grant support from the following:

  • Legal Foundation of Washington
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • City of Seattle (Older Americans Act funding)
  • Institute for Foreclosure Legal Assistance (IFLA)
  • Equal Justice Works
  • Giddens Foundation
  • Seattle Foundation
  • Corporation for Economic Development (CFED)
  • Sea-Mar Community Health Centers
  • Poverty and Race Action Research Council.

We also have received generous donations from the Elder Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association and others.

CLS does not charge its clients fees, as the clients are unable to pay attorneys fees.  CLS sometimes receives attorneys fees in cases in which those fees by law are paid by opposing parties because CLS’s clients have won the case.  Because we do not receive fees in most cases, we depend upon grants and donations to sustain our work.    

Your contribution will ensure that no vulnerable population is left to ‘fall through the cracks’ of our justice system. To support our work, please donate to the Campaign for Equal Justice, our state’s annual giving drive sponsoring the work of CLS and our partners in the Alliance for Equal Justice.

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