Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Impact Fund provides national training, counsel, grant making and expertise on issues that arise in large scale impact litigation in pursuit of economic, environmental, racial, and social justice.
Supports class action public interest litigation and awards grants in the areas of human and civil rights, elimination of discrimination, environmental justice and the relief of poverty. Provides technical support, advice/counseling, training, & representation to public interest lawyers.
Grants The Impact Fund makes recoverable grants to lawyers, small law firms, and nonprofit organizations involved in impact litigation. We fund civil rights, human rights, anti-poverty, and environmental justice cases that will affect a marginalized group. Most of our grants are for class actions, but we also fund multi-plaintiff and environmental justice cases that aim to significantly affect a larger system or lead to significant law reform. In the 2019/20 fiscal year, the Impact Fund disbursed a total of $574,233 in grant funding via 27 recoverable grants. The Impact Fund has committed nearly $7.8 million to justice-related causes since the organizations inception.
Advocacy We advocate for economic, environmental, racial, and social justice as both lead and co-counsel in a small number of complex impact litigation cases. We also author several amicus briefs in important class action cases each year and participate in notice and comment on rulemaking for administrative rules and regulations on relevant issues.
Education and Training In September, we presented our three-day Class Action Training Institute, taking students through all the phases of a mock class action. In February, we presented our annual Class Action Conference, which attracts approximately 250 practitioners from around the nation, sharing current news, developments, and best practices for class action litigation. We also presented multiple trainings, seminars, and workshops on class action strategy, current issues, and practical skills for class action practitioners and legal services organizations.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Lindsay Nako | Litigation Dir | 40 | $143,062 |
| Edward Basham-Witherington | Deputy Dir. | 40 | $125,344 |
| Jocelyn Larkin | Executive Dir. | 32 | $123,600 |
| Dena Sharp | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Dara Schur | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Robert Schug | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mario Moya | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jason Marsili | Director | 1 | $0 |
| David Lopez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Andrew Lee | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Helen Kang | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Abby Ginzberg | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Catherine Fisk | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Cornelia Dai | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Caesar | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Cecilia Mansilla | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Eric Havian | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Christian Schreiber | Board Chair | 1 | $0 |
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