Organizations providing free or low-cost legal assistance and information to various under-represented low income communities. These organizations provide advocacy and representation on issues relating to immigration, citizenship, employment and labor rights, housing discrimination, racial discrimination and violence and various other civil and human rights issues.
General
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Phone: (212) 549-2500 / Fax: (212) 549-2646 - American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: (215) 241-7000 / Fax: (215) 241-7275
Email: afscinfo@afsc.org - Association of Trial Lawyers of America
1050 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007
Phone: (800) 424-2725 or (202) 965-3500
Email: help@atlahq.org - The Center for Law and Social Policy
1616 P Street, NW, Suite 150, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 328-5140 / Fax: (202) 328-5195 - Chicago Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.
100 North LaSalle Street, Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60602-2403
Phone: (312) 630-9744, TDD: (312) 630-9749 /Fax: (312) 630-1127
Email: info@clccrul.org - Coalition on Human Needs
1120 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 910, Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: (202) 223-2532 / Fax: (202) 223-2538
Email: chn@chn.org - Family Violence Prevention Fund
383 Rhode Island St. Suite #304 San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
Phone: (415) 252-8900 / Fax: (415) 252-8991
Email: fund@fvpf.org - National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice
University of Maryland
1224 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-6462 / Fax: (301) 405-5757
Email: edjj@umail.umd.edu - National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
P.O. Box 18749, Denver, CO 80218
Phone: (303) 839-1852 / Fax: (303) 831-9251 - National Lawyers Guild
8124 W. 3rd St. #201, Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone: (213) 653-4510 - National Urban League
120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 558-5300
Email: info@nul.org - People For the American Way
2000 M Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 467-4999 or (800) 326-7329
E-mail: pfaw@pfaw.org
Disability Rights
- Cerebral Palsy Guidance
- The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
1321 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., Washington, DC 20003-3027
Phone: (202) 440-2210
Email: copaa@copaa.net - Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
2212 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone/TTY: (510) 644-2555 / Fax: (510) 841-8645
Email: dredf@dredf.org - Disability Rights Advocates
449 15th Street, Suite 303; Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 451-8644 / Fax: (510) 451-8511 / TTY: (510) 451-8716
Email: general@dralegal.org - Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns
1430 SW Topeka Blvd., Topeka, KS, 66612-1877
Toll-free Voice: (800) 295-5232, Toll-free TTY: (877) 340-5874
Phone: (785) 296-1722, TTY: (785) 296-5044 TTY
Fax: (785) 296-0466 - Protection and Advocacy
100 Howe Avenue, Suite 235-N, Sacramento, CA 95825
Phone: 1 (800) 776-5746
Employment Rights
- California Department of Fair Employment and Housing
Employment/Public Accommodations/Hate Violence
(800) 884-1684 (Within California)
(916) 227-0551 (Outside California)
Fax: (916) 227-2859
Housing
(800) 233-3212 (Within California)
(510) 622-2945 (Outside California)
TTY: (800) 700-2320 (Within California)
Fax: (510) 622-2956
Email: contact@dfeh.ca.gov - National Employment Lawyers Association
600 Harrison Street, Suite 535, San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: (415) 227-4655 / Fax: (415) 495-7465
Gay / Lesbian / Bisexual / Transgender Rights
- Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits
P.O. Box 31177, San Francisco, CA 94131-0177 - Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
8455 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 305, Los Angeles, California 90048.
Phone: (800) GAY-MEDIA
Email: glaad@glaad.org - International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
1360 Mission Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 255-8680 / Fax: (415) 255-8662
Asylum Program Phone: (415) 255-8020
Email: iglhrc@iglhrc.org - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
6030 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036-3617
Phone: (323) 937-2728 / Fax: (323) 937-0601 - National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
1700 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC 20009-2624
Phone: (202) 332-6483 / Fax: (202) 332-0207, TTY (202) 332-6219 - Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
1726 M Street, NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 467-8180 / Fax: (202) 467-8194
Immigration / Immigrant Rights
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
918 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004-1400
Phone: (202) 216-2400 / Fax: (202) 371-9449 - American Immigration Law Foundation
918 F Street, N.W., 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004
Phone: (202) 742-5600 / Fax (202) 742-5619
Email: info@ailf.org - Immigrant Legal Resource Center
1663 Mission St., Suite 602, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Phone: (415) 255-9499 - The Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force
230 Park Avenue, Suite 904, New York, NY 10169
Phone: (212) 818-9639 / Fax: (212) 573-6075
Email: info@lgirtf.org - Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
700 Light Street, Baltimore MD 21230
Phone: (410) 230-2700 / Fax: (410) 230-2890
Email: lirs@lirs.org - Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights
995 Market St. 11th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 243-8215 / Fax: (415) 243-8628 - The National Immigration Forum
220 I Street, N.E. Suite 220, Washington DC 20002-4362
Phone: (202) 544-0004 / Fax: (202) 544-1905
Email: nnirr@nnirr.org - National Immigration Law Center
3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2850, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: (213) 639-3900 / Fax: (213) 639-3911
Email: info@nilc.org - National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
310 8th Street, Suite 307, Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 465-1984 / Fax: (510) 465-1885
Race / Ethnic-Based Organizations
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
4201 Connecticut Ave, N.W; Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20008
Phone: (202) 244-2990 / Fax: (202) 244-3196
Email: ADC@adc.org - The American Jewish Committee
Jacob Blaustein Building
165 East 56 Street, New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 751-4000 / Fax: (212) 838-2120 - Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
99 Hudson Street, 12th floor, New York, New York 10013
Phone: (212) 966-5932 / Fax: (212) 966-4303
Email: info@aaldef.org - Asian Law Caucus
720 Market St., Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 391-1655 / Fax: (415) 391-0366
Email: alc@asianlawcaucus.org - Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
1145 Wilshire Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: (213) 977-7500/ Fax: (213) 977-7595 - Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)
942 Market St., Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 954-9988 / Fax: (415) 954-9999
EMail: hforum@apiahf.org - California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
2210 K Street, Suite 201, Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: (916) 446-7901 - League of United Latin American Cititzens (LULAC)
2000 L Street, NW, Suite 610 Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 833-6130 - Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
634 South Spring Street , 11th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Phone: (213) 629.2512 / Fax: (213) 629-0266 - National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
1140 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 296-2300
Email: sscanlon@napalc.org - National Congress of American Indians
1301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 200 Washington D.C. 20036
Phone: (202) 466-7767 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 4805 Mt. Hope Drive, Baltimore Maryland 21215
NAACP Hotline: (410) 521-4939 - Native American Rights Fund
1712 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 785-4166 / Fax: (202) 822-0068 - National Council of La Raza
523 West 6th St. Ste 301, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Phone: (213) 489-3428 / Fax: (213) 489-1167 - Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
1628 16th St., NW. 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20009
Email: searac@searac.org
Women’s Rights
- ABA Commission on Domestic Violence
740 15th Street, NW, 9th Floor, Washington, DC, 20005-1022
Email: abasvcctr@abanet.org - The American Association of University Women
1111 Sixteenth St. N.W. , Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (800) 326-AAUW
Email: info@aauw.org - Equal Rights Advocates
1663 Mission Street, Suite 250, San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 621-0672/ Fax: (415) 621-6744 - Institute for Women’s Policy Research
1707 L Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 785-5100 / Fax: (202) 833-4362
Email: iwpr@iwpr.org - Mana – A National Latina Organization
1725 K Street, NW, Suite 501, Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: (202) 833-0060 / Fax: (202) 496-0588 - National Council of Negro Women, Inc
633 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW – Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (877) 912-PENN ( 7366 ) - National Council of Women’s Organizations
733 15th St. NW, Suite 1011, Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 393-7122 / Fax (202) 387-7915
Email: info@womensorganizations.org - The National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc.
8401 Colesville Road, Suite 400, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
Toll Free: (877) 274-1198 / Phone: 301-562-8000 / Fax: 301-562-8303
Email: NPCBW@bellatlantic.net - NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
395 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 925-6635 / Fax: (212) 226-1066 - Women’s Human Right Resources
Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto
Email: whrr.law@utoronto.ca
Youth Issues and Rights
- Action Alliance for Children
1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 444-7136
Email: aac@4children.org - Center for Community Alternatives
39 West 19th St., 3rd Floor., New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 691-1911 / Fax: (212) 675-0825 - Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
1622 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 621-5661 / Fax: (415) 621-5466
Email: info@cjcj.org - Child Protect
4111 Wall Street, Montgomery, Alabama 36106
Phone: 334-262-1220 / Fax: 334-262-2252
Email: childprotect@childprotect.org - Children’s Defense Fund
101 Broadway, Second Floor, Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 663-3224 / Fax: (510) 663-1783 - Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
120 Wall St., 3rd floor, New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 809-4675 / Fax: (212) 344-5636
Email: cacf@cacf.org - National Association of Child Advocates
1522 K Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20005-1202
Phone: (202) 289-0777 / Fax: (202) 289-0776
Email: naca@childadvocacy.org - National Center for Youth Law
405 14th Street, 15th Floor, Oakland, California 94612
Phone: (510) 835-8098 / Fax: (510) 835-8099
Email: info@youthlaw.org - Resources for Youth
454 Las Gallinas Avenue, Suite 178, San Rafael, California 94903
Phone: (415) 331-5991 / Fax: (415) 331-2969
Email: info@preventviolence.org - Youth Law Center
Children’s Legal Protection Center
417 Montgomery Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 543-3379 / Fax: (415) 956-9022
Email: info@youthlawcenter.com