Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963, to mobilize the nation’s leading lawyers as agents for change in the Civil Rights Movement. It uses legal advocacy to achieve racial justice. fighting inside and outside the courts to ensure that people of color have the voice, opportunity, and power to make the promises of American democracy real.

This grant is for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Protecting and Advancing DEI Pro Bono Initiative. Through this initiative, the Lawyers’ Committee provides pro bono support to enable programs that are focused on combating racial disparities to ensure compliance with the law.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a civil rights organization founded in 1963. This project grant supports a convening that will bring together a cross-section of lawyers, scholars and academics, university administrators and admissions officers, leaders in philanthropy, students, and community organizers and advocates focused on preserving and defending racial diversity in education. The goal of the convening is to develop a strategy of impact and activate a broad community of stakeholders to undertake new work, projects, scholarship, data analysis, reports, editorials, and more to help promote robust discussions around the value of diversity in today’s educational context.