Legal empowerment has a new homepage! Visit the official website of the Legal Empowerment Fund to read stories from grantee partners, learn more about legal empowerment, and stay up to date with organizational news and announcements.
The Fund for Global Human Rights is excited to share the launch of the Legal Empowerment Fund’s new website.
The Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF), a program hosted by the Fund for Global Human rights, is the first-ever grantmaking initiative dedicated solely to resourcing the growing legal empowerment movement and closing the global justice gap. Their new, dedicated platform is a comprehensive resource for the LEF’s partners, grantees, and supporters, bringing together key information and insights in one accessible space.
The new LEF website features:
- Stories from LEF grantee partners: Learn about the impactful work that activists are doing with support from the LEF, with stories and successes from the front lines of the legal empowerment movement.
- Learning, insights, and analysis: Dive deeper into what legal empowerment really means, why it is so important for closing the global justice gap, and what the LEF is learning through its rounds of funding.
- Organizational updates and announcements: Keep up to date with the LEF’s strategic goals, upcoming initiatives, and plans to continue supporting grassroots legal empowerment activists worldwide.
- Meet the team: Get to know the passionate advocates and activists behind the LEF who are driving this movement forward.
About the Legal Empowerment Fund
Around the world, two-thirds of the world’s population can’t access justice, meaning they face legal issues without the support of vital services, or they are unable to shape laws that affect their lives. The LEF plays a singular role in helping grassroots organizations combine law and organizing to advance more just, equitable societies.
Legal empowerment enables grassroots communities to know, use, and shape the law, fostering just, democratic and sustainable societies. By supporting people-centered, community-led initiatives, the LEF helps marginalized groups create accessible, effective, and inclusive solutions to their legal challenges.
The LEF empowers grassroots movements by offering unrestricted funding, fostering peer-led networks, and fueling sustainable lasting change. Since its launch in 2021, the LEF has awarded over $7 million in flexible funding to 175 grassroot grantee partners across 58 countries around the world.
