CENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES AWARDED $394K PRO BONO GRANT

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC), a national nonprofit organization founded by Congress, has announced that it is awarding a Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant of $394,344 to the Center for Arkansas Legal Services (CALS).

CALS, a nonprofit law firm that provides free civil legal services to low-income Arkansans, is one of 17 legal aid organizations receiving a grant. LSC is awarding a total of $5 million to support nationwide efforts to improve pro bono legal services. 

These grants are meant to address what LCS has called the “justice gap,” in which low-income Americans do not receive sufficient legal help for 92% of their civil legal problems. Pro bono work is one of the approaches that LSC advances to address this disparity, as expanding it and other volunteer legal services give legal aid providers increased bandwidth to assist low-income Americans in civil issues like housing, family, employment and income maintenance, consumer debt and natural disaster recovery.