Black Opportunity Fund Partnership
This 2-year partnership will enable the Black Opportunity Fund to provide grants to Black-led, Black-serving nonprofits with impactful initiatives helping Black communities better understand and navigate the criminal justice system.
$ 200,000
May 11, 2023
Innovation and Equity of Access in Ontario Courthouse Libraries
In this 2-year project, the Legal Information and Resource Network (LiRN) will promote Access to Innovation through an Innovation Sandbox that allows libraries to test new technologies, and increase equitable access to key legal resources across the province by improving collections to a minimum standard and growing e-LiRN, its suite of electronic research databases.
$ 1,400,000
April 13, 2023
Roy & Ria McMurtry Endowment 2022
The Second Chance Scholarship Foundation will provide a post-secondary education scholarship to a student who is, has been, or is at risk of becoming in conflict with the law and who is enrolled in a college or university program relating to legal education.
$ 5,000
December 6, 2022
Catalyst II 2023
The National Self-Represented Litigants Project is dedicated to better understanding the needs, motivations, and challenges of self-represented litigants (SRLs) in civil and family courts and administrative tribunals. It promotes new and more affordable models of legal service delivery that better support SRLs. It is committed to the development of practical resources geared specifically to SRLs' needs, especially in relation to cultural and procedural matters that can often confound them.
$ 157,500
December 6, 2022
Annual Comprehensive 2023-2024
The Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University will conduct activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 201,960
December 6, 2022
Annual Comprehensive 2023-2024
Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University will conduct a needs assessment in order to establish a student legal clinic that responds to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 335,280
December 6, 2022
Annual Comprehensive 2023-2024
Osgoode Hall Law School will conduct activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 403,920
December 6, 2022
Annual Comprehensive 2023-2024
Queen's University, Faculty of Law will conduct activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 335,280
December 6, 2022
Annual Comprehensive 2023-2024
The University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section will conduct activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 201,960
December 6, 2022
Annual Comprehensive 2023-2024
The University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, will conduct activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 403,920
December 6, 2022