The IOLA Grantee Activity Report (GAR) will be available on April 19, 2010. (Due May 21, 2010) For Details Click Here.
The purpose of the IOLA Fund is to ensure effective access to justice and to ensure stable, economical and high quality civil legal services to the poor throughout New York State. To accomplish its mission, the IOLA Fund administers a grants program as follows:
Awards are made to qualified organizations that provide civil legal services in multiple substantive areas free of charge to low-income persons in a particular geographic service area. The most common categories of cases handled by CLS programs are family, housing, income maintenance, consumer, health and employment. CLS grant awards are for general operating support.
The Fund is required by statute to allocate no less than 75% of its total annual funding to the CLS grant program and to base those awards on the poverty population according to the most recent US Census.
Awards are made to providers of legal services to underserved groups and other groups with special needs. In addition to legal services, other activities supported are training events, program innovations, alternative dispute resolution programs, volunteer lawyer programs and technology improvements to enhance service delivery. AOJ grant awards are made, in the discretion of the Board of Trustees, on a one-time or multi-year basis depending on the nature of the project.
All IOLA grants are awarded pursuant to the Regulations of the Trustees [21 NYCRR Part 7000]. In addition, IOLA annually requires programmatic and financial audits of each grantee to assure compliance with the terms and conditions of the grant award. IOLA also encourages cooperation among its grantees and provides technical assistance to promote improvements in the delivery of civil legal services for the poor.
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