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Are you a grassroots justice activist who seeks environmental and land justice through legal empowerment? The Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF) Grants 2025 application process is currently open. Those interested in applying can find out more about this opportunity by clicking here.
Opportunity Details
The Legal Empowerment Fund is a 10-year, multimillion-dollar effort at the Fund for Global Human Rights to give frontline activists and grassroots groups the support they need to close the global justice gap. The LEF was created with the support of a constellation of funders and allies—including the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Namati, the International Development and Research Centre, and Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.
Legal empowerment combines law with organizing to build power among people affected by injustice. When people are able to know, use, and shape the law, they can access justice, protect the lands and resources they depend on, and hold governments and other powerful actors to account.
This opportunity is open to grassroots organizations in:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
We are looking for groups that:
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