
Community Grants
WBA Foundation 2025 GRANT RECIPIENTS
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Amara Legal Center provides free legal services to survivors of sex trafficking and those who have been harmed by the commercial sex industry, whether involvement was by coercion, necessity, choice, or otherwise, in the DC metropolitan area. Amara’s attorneys are trained in providing trauma-informed legal services and are devoted to providing comprehensive support, making sure that its clients know they are not navigating their cases alone. The WBAF grant will support survivors of sex trafficking with legal services, including civil protection orders, child custody, divorce, sealing and vacating criminal records, and victim-witness advocacy.
DC KinCare Alliance supports the legal, financial, and related service needs of relative caregivers, the majority of whom are women, who step up to raise children in their extended families in times of crisis when the children’s parents are not able to care for them. DC KinCare Alliance is the only organization in DC focused solely on serving relative caregivers raising DC’s at-risk children. The WBAF grant will support PROJECT ADOPT, which represents relative caregivers trying to adopt the children they raise, and provides legal help to relative caregivers to obtain the rights, benefits, and services needed to ensure a safe and stable home for children whose parents can no longer care for them.
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The DC Volunteer Lawyers Project addresses the critical shortage of legal assistance for low-income people in Washington, DC, especially in cases involving domestic violence. The WBAF grant will support the Domestic Violence Program, which provides comprehensive trauma-informed legal, advocacy, and support services to low-income survivors of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence, focusing on Wards 5, 7 & 8.
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FIRST SHIFT JUSTICE PROJECT
First Shift Justice Project empowers workers to exercise their workplace rights. They represent clients whose rights have been violated. Through partnerships with medical clinics and nonprofits, they educate health care providers about the legal rights of caregivers in the workplace so they can better support their patients at work. The WBAF grant will support efforts to empower pregnant and caregiving workers in low wage jobs to exercise their rights related to caregiving and parenting.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE
Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance believes that an equitable society, where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and contribute to an integrated and supportive community, requires fair access to health and justice resources. They use law as a tool to improve individual health and wellbeing, transform the systems used to deliver healthcare, and advance Georgetown’s broader goals for health, justice, and racial equity. The WBAF grant will support the Perinatal Legal Assistance & Wellbeing (P-LAW) Project to address the health-harming legal needs of pregnant and postpartum patients receiving care at MedStar Washington Hospital Center’s Division of Women’s and Infants Services.
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THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER
The Human Trafficking Legal Center connects trafficking survivors with pro bono representation so they can seek justice and thrive. They demand accountability from traffickers, from governments, and from corporations. The WBAF grant will support the Diplomatic Trafficking Program, which is dedicated to combating the trafficking of domestic workers by diplomats and employees of international organizations.
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Mother's Outreach Network facilitates the power of Black mothers subject to systems of disempowerment, such as the family regulation and foster system, to upend a socio-economic structure that inadequately addresses their full potential for economic independence. It advances economic security for women and families through social justice education, mutual aid, grassroots mobilization, and legal advocacy, focused on disadvantaged Black women in Washington, DC. The WBAF grant supports efforts to empower Black mothers currently involved in, and at-risk for, their children’s involvement in the child welfare system, with support to achieve economic independence, security, and mobility, and equip them with the skills necessary to navigate DC’s complex legal, criminal, and foster care systems.
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The Safe Sisters Circle provides free culturally-specific, trauma-informed, and legal holistic services to Black women survivors of domestic violence and/or sexual abuse. Rooted in Safe Sisters Circle is the belief that there is value in having an organization established for Black women and where the majority of service providers and leadership within the organization are also Black women. The WBAF grant will support the Community Lawyer Initiative, which is on-site legal services and traveling legal clinics that provide legal representation to Black women survivors of domestic and sexual violence living primarily in Wards 7 and 8.
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​Volare (formerly Network of Victim Recovery DC) creates equitable healing and dignified experiences for survivors of crime by providing free, trauma-informed advocacy, therapeutic, and legal services in conjunction with strategic litigation, policy advocacy, and education to transform existing responses to harm. The WBAF grant will support DV LEAP, a leader in survivor appellate advocacy; attorneys challenge unjust trial outcomes by litigating appeals, filing Amicus briefs, and fighting for survivor rights all the way to the Supreme Court.
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