Partners for Justice

Partners for Justice (PFJ) is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the lives of low-income individuals by empowering and supporting them to maintain homes, livelihoods, family bonds, property, and access to the social safety net. Learning for Action will be supporting PFJ in developing a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning framework and comparison group baseline assessment for the Public Defender Advocate pilot programs in Oakland, California, and Wilmington, Delaware. The framework will support PFJ on an evidence-building journey to establish proof-of-concept for this innovative model. The purpose of this project grant is to support Partners for Justice in its work with Learning for Action for data collection to use in its Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning framework.

Partners for Justice (PFJ) is a nonprofit organization that improves the lives of low-income people by empowering and supporting them to maintain homes, livelihoods, family bonds, property, and access to the social safety net. PFJ pursues this mission by placing college graduates as non-attorney advocates within mission-aligned legal organizations where they help clients navigate legal systems, government institutions, and other bureaucracies. This program grant will support an evaluation of the organization’s Public Defense Advocate program, which will allow it to better understand PFJ’s impact and contribute meaningfully to the literature on holistic defense more broadly.