Grantee Profile

Juvenile Law Center

Grants to Juvenile Law Center

  • $500,000Active Strategy

    2013 (Duration 1 year, 8 months)

    Juvenile Justice

    PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — The Juvenile Law Center is a public interest law firm that has served as the lead entity for Models for Change in Pennsylvania since the initiative was launched in 2004. The Center will use this grant to complete the work of sustaining and documenting the progress achieved in Pennsylvania; and to take part in the broader effort to export Models for Change resources and practice models to new jurisdictions.

  • $357,000Active Strategy

    2012 (Inactive Grant)

    Juvenile Justice

    PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — The Juvenile Law Center is one of the nation's oldest public interest law firms devoted to children. For more than 35 years, it has worked to protect the rights of youth involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems through litigation, public advocacy, and coalition and consensus building. It has served as the lead entity for Models for Change in Pennsylvania since the initiative was launched in 2004. It will use this grant to ensure that progress made under the initiative is sustained and to document its results.

  • $350,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    Juvenile Justice

    PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — In support of activities as lead entity in Pennsylvania Models for Change.

  • $250,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    Juvenile Justice

    PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — To support training and technical assistance to Models for Change states working to improve information sharing across child- and family-serving agencies.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Juvenile Law Center $1,457,000 between 2010 and 2013.

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