Initiatives
LSC engages in several programs and initiatives to help improve our civil legal aid problem in America.
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Justice Gap Research
LSC’s Justice Gap Research advance our commitment to funding civil legal assistance for Americans who would be otherwise unable to afford it by providing high-quality data about the gap between the need for civil legal assistance and its availability in low-income America.
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Rural Summer Legal Corps
Launched in the summer of 2016, the Rural Summer Legal Corps is a privately funded initiative to connect law students with legal aid programs in the common pursuit of better addressing the civil legal needs of rural communities.
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Public Library Initiative
LSC and its partner, OCLC, have designed and delivered a free national online training program on civil legal information and services for public library staff.
Statewide Website Evaluation Project
With generous funding from the Ford Foundation, LSC led a large-scale assessment of the quality and usability of state and territory legal information websites across the country.
The Effect of State & Local Laws on Evictions
A congressionally-directed study to investigate evictions as a legal process and the scope of unmet legal needs involving eviction at the state and local level.