Grantee Profile
Juvenile Law Center
Grants to Juvenile Law Center
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$357,000Active Strategy
2012 (Duration 1 year)
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.
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$350,000Active Strategy
2010 (Inactive Grant)
Juvenile Justice
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — In support of activities as lead entity in Pennsylvania Models for Change.
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$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 $957,000 between 2010 and 2013.
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