Dear ,

With support from people like you, the National Lawyers Guild has been working hard to support movements for social justice and liberation. Whether it’s defending protesters in the streets and courtrooms, providing critical resources for activists, speaking out against government oppression, or showing up in solidarity with resistance movements around the world, NLG members, chapters, projects, and committees are there.

That's why the NLG Foundation invests in building the capacity of NLG chapters and committees through the Guild Grants program. We are pleased to announce that we have awarded grants of up to $7,500 each to these nine chapters and committees:

• Atlanta NLG Chapter for a membership recruitment, retention, and engagement campaign to strengthen their Legal Observer program
    
• Central Florida NLG Chapter to fight proactive policing by tracking and exposing racially biased, geographically-targeted policing practices in Orange County
  
  
• Detroit & Michigan NLG Chapter for the Copwatch training program to deter police violence and harassment and hold police accountable by empowering community members to stop, observe, document, and record police encounters
  
  
• Los Angeles NLG Chapter for a Civil Rights Roundtable and Advancement Forum
  
  
• NLG Queer Caucus for Erasure Resistance Project to keep queer voices and bodies visible by providing legal support to people arrested or fired for resisting anti- LBGTQIA+ legislation
  
  
• NLG-San Francisco Bay Area NLG chapter for a Law Student Organizing and Support Campaign
  
  
• Ohio NLG Chapter for a Field Organizer to focus on different geographic areas in the state and engage a new law school student population
  
  
• University of Montana School of Law NLG Chapter to respond to the displacement of people experiencing houselessness through Know Your Rights training and Legal Observation
  
  
• University of Toledo College of Law NLG Chapter to partner law students with local attorneys in assisting pro se individuals with completing paperwork needed for sealing criminal records

Each of these grantees are on the ground every day, using law, education, and activism to fight unjust systems of oppression. Thank you for supporting the NLG Foundation and making these grants possible!

Daniel McGee
Managing Director
National Lawyers Guild Foundation

P.S. Please consider making a year-end donation to ensure the NLG can continue to provide critical legal support and solidarity to social justice movements today, tomorrow, and in the years to come.