The Impact Fund is a Berkeley-based 501(c)(3) public interest legal nonprofit that provides grants, technical support, co-counseling, amicus representation and training to advance impact litigation aimed at economic, environmental, racial and social justice. The organization focuses on class actions and systemic cases intended to produce broad legal and policy reforms.
Pursues civil-rights and social-justice legal strategies including class-action and systemic litigation in areas such as civil rights, environmental justice, poverty law, consumer protection, workers' rights, disability and LGBTQ rights; supports legal capacity-building and precedent-setting cases rather than direct legislative lobbying as its primary tactic.
Primarily funded by individual donors and philanthropic foundations, grants and contributions from law firms and legal services funding (including California legal services trust/IOLTA support).
Founder Brad Seligman; past executive director Jocelyn D. Larkin; current executive director Lindsay Nako; partnerships with public interest law firms, legal services projects and co-counsel/amicus collaborators in the plaintiffs' bar and civil-rights community.
Non-profit (501(c)(3) public interest legal organization)
