Peer to Peer Fundraising - Peer to Peer (P2P) fundraising is when individuals create personal fundraising pages on the organization’s behalf. You can create your own fundraiser and advocate for Advancing Justice-LA by connecting with your network. Social Media Platforms like Facebook have the option to do Peer to Peer fundraising.  If you would like to do a peer to peer fundraiser on behalf of Advancing Justice-LA and have questions, please contact Michi Lew at [email protected].  

 

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• AmazonSmile – Support Advancing Justice-LA by shopping at smile.amazon.com. Amazon.com will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Advancing Justice-LA.
• Ralphs Community Contribution Program – When you enroll in this program and use your Ralphs Rewards card, a portion of your Ralphs purchases will be donated to Advancing Justice-LA.

The doctrine of cy pres, or fluid recovery, allows litigants to request courts to distribute unclaimed or residual funds in class action settlements and judgments and certain other actions to non-profit organizations based on the following broad guidelines. Courts annually approve millions of dollars in cy pres funds to non-profit organizations like ours that engage in access to justice initiatives for underserved communities, which has been crucial to our ability to continue our important work.

Cy pres funds are especially important for supporting all of our access to justice initiatives, including direct legal services and impact litigation work. Unlike many of our other funding sources, cy pres awards are unrestricted. This has allowed us to direct cy pres funds to our important and groundbreaking legal representation of individuals and groups who otherwise would not have access to the legal system to vindicate their rights. We rely on cy pres funds to be able to continue this invaluable work.

With the assistance of individual attorneys, in-house counsel, law firms, and class action practitioners, we have received cy pres awards that have helped build a powerhouse legal team to provide access to justice for low-income, disadvantaged, and underserved communities. Our cases have increased equal educational opportunity, challenged employment discrimination, fought sweatshops and other exploitative wages and working conditions, and exposed fraudulent practices aimed at vulnerable and limited-English-proficient consumers. Cy pres awards will help us continue this important work.

Ways to Help Advancing Justice-LA Receive Cy Pres Awards

Law firms and individual supporters in the legal community can help us receive cy pres awards. This does not require you to ask anyone to donate money or time. Here are ways you can assist us:

• If you, your firm, or someone you know is party to or counsel on a class action case involving potential cy pres awards, you may help nominate our organization as an awardee.
• Familiarize yourself with our work and help us outreach to the courts and class action attorneys about our access to justice initiatives, civil rights advocacy, legal services, and litigation on behalf of low-wage workers and vulnerable consumers.
• If you become aware of cy pres awards through word of mouth or published notices, please let us know about the opportunities.

Find out more information on how you can help increase legal services and advance civil rights with cy pres awards.