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Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation

2026 Grant Application
The Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation seeks grant applications in the following categories.

Civil Legal Aid to the Poor.

Grants in this category are made to Arkansas nonprofit civil legal aid providers. Such grants may include, but are not limited to, the following purposes:
- Direct delivery of civil legal services;
- Delivery of services through private attorneys who volunteer through a legal aid pro bono or “low bono” panel.
- Grants in this category may be for Specific Projects like a pilot low-bono legal service program or a traveling legal clinic. They may also be for General Support.
Administration of Justice.

Grants in this category support Specific Projects that advance systemic improvements to Arkansas’s civil justice system and promote meaningful, statewide access to justice. Priority will be given to initiatives that generate data, research, analysis, or tested models intended to inform changes to court rules, statutes, policies, or administrative practices affecting access to civil justice.
- Empirical studies or evaluations examining the impact of court rules or practices on case outcomes, efficiency, or fairness;
- Pilot projects testing innovative court-based or cross-sector approaches—such as simplified procedures, alternative service models, remote participation, or triage systems—that are designed to produce findings scalable at a statewide level;
- Development of model rules, forms, or administrative policies intended to reduce unnecessary complexity, improve consistency across jurisdictions, or increase usability for self-represented litigants;
- Evaluation of technology-enabled access initiatives, including online forms, kiosks, or guided pathways, where the project results in data or recommendations to inform broader adoption or rule changes.
Projects in this category must demonstrate the potential for statewide impact and must produce concrete outputs, such as written reports, data sets, evaluative findings, model rules or policies, or formal recommendations for reform. Examples of specific administration of justice projects are:
- A pilot introducing plain-language pleadings and guided forms in debt collection cases, measuring effects on default rates and case resolution to inform statewide adoption.
- A project to research and develop a standardized framework for secure online publication of warning orders.
- A project that implements court date text reminders and collects data on the text reminders' impact on failure to appear rates.
Grantee Eligibility.

To be eligible to receive funds from the Foundation, an applicant must:
- Be an organization that qualifies as an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or a government entity charged by law with functions that relate to the administration of justice or legal education;
- Be in good standing with the State of Arkansas;
- Timely submit a complete application;
- Have adequate internal accounting controls that are capable of tracking grant-related expenditures;
- Agree not to use grant funds for lobbying activities of any kind;- Provide a signed Grant Assurances Agreement within thirty (30) days of notification of a grant award;
- Agree to provide grant reports upon request by the Foundation.
If you have questions about how to complete this application, please contact Abby Brenneman at abby@arkansasjustice.org or 501-492-7174.
Please read the above information and indicate whether the organization you are applying for is an eligible applicant.
Name of the applicant organization:
Point of Contact (POC). This is the person we should contact about the information provided in your application.
POC Email Address
POC Phone Number

Have you previously received funding from the Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation?
What Grant Category are you applying for?
Are you requesting a Specific Project Grant or General Support? (General Support is only available for the Civil Legal Aid grant category.)
Below, please provide a description of the organization, its history, and its purposes.
Please provide a concise description of what grant funds would be used for. (800 characters or less)
What is the total dollar amount of funding requested?
Please upload a copy of your latest audited financial statement.

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If you are a 501(c)(3), please upload a copy of your IRS determination letter.

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Please upload a copy of your organization's current budget.

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Please describe any note worthy successes and the approximate date each was accomplished.

If a grant is awarded to your organization in the amount requested, what is your best projection of how it would impact your capacity? Please explain how you developed this projection.
Please upload a copy of any relevant statistical data about your organization, such as number of clients served, cases closed, number of cases per legal issue, level of service provided in each case, case outcomes, any tangible impact metrics, staffing and case-load, cost-effectiveness, client income levels. Note: Data will be evaluated holistically and in context, not as a rigid performance benchmark.

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A description of the methods used to identify clients qualified to receive services under the grant, if applicable.
If applicable, please provide a description of the geographic area to be served, the number of people to be assisted, and the methods used to derive this information.

Will this project generate data, research, analysis, or tested models intended to inform changes to court rules, statutes, policies, or administrative practices affecting access to civil justice?

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Please explain how this project could advance systemic improvements to Arkansas’s civil justice system and promote meaningful, statewide access to justice.
Please provide an explanation of your planned activities and timetable for completion.
A description of community involvement and support for the program or project
If you have it, please upload any statistical data or metrics that demonstrate your organization's impact on the public, cost-effectiveness, quantitative outputs, etc.

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Please upload a projected budget for the proposed grant project or program.

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To the best of your ability at this time, please provide sufficient information to allow the Foundation to determine how grant funds will be disbursed if an award is made, such as the entity and account to which grant payments would be made and any conditions the applicant must meet before payment can be processed.
Please provide the name and title of the individual with authority to accept payment of a grant on behalf of your organization.
What is their email address?
What is their phone number?
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