For Funders
Litigation Creates Leveraged Impact
Despite hundreds of laws on the books designed to protect civil, environmental, worker, and other rights, without enforcement, these rights are all too often violated and abused. From prison conditions to wage theft to housing discrimination and more, these abuses and violations disproportionately affect marginalized populations.
Suing private companies and governments for rights violations is a key tool to deliver justice.
The lawsuits funded via JCAF Justice Notes hold corporate and state actors accountable for violations of laws already on the books. At scale, this litigation can prompt changes across industries and practices that legislation alone has failed to influence.
Yet, this tactic (a.k.a. social impact litigation) is far too underutilized and under-resourced.
A Streamlined Way to Fund Litigation
Philanthropists and foundations don’t often engage in funding impact litigation because:
Litigation budgets are unpredictable
Some social impact litigators lack tax-deductible 501(c)3 status
Litigation timelines don’t match grantmaking timelines
Donors don’t have the technical expertise to determine the quality of cases
JCAF removes these barriers, allowing donors to streamline their investments into a single 501(c)3 entity. JCAF turns grants into evergreen investments that create a truly scalable and sustainable model for impact litigation.
Scaling Impact, Scaling Investment
JCAF leverages recyclable capital to support multiple cases at once. Through the power of portfolio-based loans a $50M corpus in JCAF, for example, could support hundreds of cases into perpetuity.
Three Ways to Invest
JCAF offers donors three ways to invest in JCAF
Core Support
Turn tax-deductible charitable grants into evergreen impact
Impact Investments
Recover your investment through PRIs & Recoverable Grants
Advisory Services
Guiding foundations and donors to identify bespoke funding opportunities in specific sectors, organizations, or cases
Why the Justice Ecosystem Needs JCAF
Social Impact Litigators can only seek funding from a limited number of sources. There is another way. The multi-billion-dollar commercial litigation finance industry provides us with a blueprint.
Justice Catalyst Access Fund has designed the Justice Note to help Social Impact Litigators scale their practices.
The Justice Note allows us to convert one time donations into an evergreen fund to help many social impact litigators sustainably grow and expand their practices.
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Justice Catalyst Access Fund is a registered 501(c)(3) organization
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