Funding Justice for All Coloradans

The Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado raises money for Colorado Legal Services (CLS), Colorado’s statewide Legal Aid program. CLS is the only agency in the state that provides free legal services in civil cases to clients who could not otherwise afford them in every Colorado county through a network of 13 offices. CLS served over 26,000 individuals and families in the last year alone.
Colorado has about half the legal aid lawyers it did 40 years ago, while over the same period, the number of low-income Coloradans eligible for services has tripled. For every client served by CLS, at least one income-eligible person is turned away. With your support, CLS is working to meet this expanded need and help ensure justice for all is more than just a promise.

Latest News

Sign the Petition: Create a Colorado Equal Justice License Plate
February 4, 2025

Every year, Colorado faces a substantial shortfall in legal aid funding. As a community committed to equal justice for all, we are constantly looking for new [...]

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Statement on Federal Funding for Legal Aid
January 28, 2025

Yesterday, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a memo ordering a pause of federal grants. This memo is sweeping in its breadth and [...]

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Preventing evictions and homelessness for families and individuals

Civil legal aid helps keep individuals and families in their homes. Tenants facing eviction who are represented by an attorney are twice as likely to be able to remain in their homes, or otherwise resolve their cases with better outcomes.

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Maintaining financial security and independence

Civil legal aid helps individuals and families resolve threats to their financial security that can often be life-altering, including foreclosures, debt collection, denials of unemployment compensation, unfair wage garnishment, consumer fraud, and bankruptcy.

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Protecting the most
vulnerable in our communities

Civil legal aid helps keep people safe and improves their life prospects by resolving issues of domestic violence, divorce, maintenance, and custody, as well as securing rightfully earned and necessary benefits for veterans, people living with disabilities.

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2023-24 Annual Report Highlights

Legal aid is important

Solving civil legal problems stabilizes families, gets people back on their feet, and improves the bedrock economic, health, and social conditions of their lives.

Legal aid is a good investment

Addressing civil legal problems up front avoids serious and costly consequences for the individuals and families involved and for society generally.

Legal aid has no substitute

Without civil legal aid, our most vulnerable neighbors have nowhere to turn for help resolving serious civil legal problems.

Make a Donation

Your tax-deductible gift will make a difference for individuals and families who would otherwise be denied access to justice.