Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

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.

The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. The Lawyers’ Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar’s leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity – work that continues to be vital today. This grant for general operating support will enable the Lawyers’ Committee to carry out this mission at a critically important time in the nation’s history.