Host Organizations

Launching fellowship projects across the justice ecosystem

Justice Catalyst is honored to collaborate with a diverse range of host organizations across the United States via our fellowship programs.

Quick Facts About Fellowship Host Organizations

  • It is up to prospective Justice Catalyst Fellow candidates to match with a Host Organization that will serve as their employer during a Justice Catalyst Fellowship. For tips, see our Fellowships page.

  • Fellows and Host Organizations collaborate to design a project and submit an application.

  • Host organizations can be established legal organizations or a small, brand new organization looking to hire its first lawyer. For details, see the FAQs below. Fellows and Host Organizations collaborate to design a project and submit an application.

List of current & past Host Organizations

Below is a non-exhaustive list of past and current host organizations for the Justice Catalyst Fellowship as well as our fellowship programs in partnership with the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (COSAL) and Public Rights Project.

ACLU Immigrants Rights Project

  • ACLU National Prison Project

  • ACLU of Alaska

  • ACLU of Louisiana

  • ACLU of Massachusetts

  • ACLU of New Jersey

  • ACLU of Southern California

  • ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project

  • ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project

  • Advancing Justice – Los Angeles

  • Al Otro Lado

  • Arch City Defenders

  • Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project

  • Beyond Legal Aid

  • Brooklyn Defender Services

  • California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation

  • Center for Biological Diversity

  • Center for Popular Democracy

  • Center for Reproductive Rights

  • Centro de los Derechos del Migrante

  • City of Baltimore Law Department - Affirmative Litigation program

  • Communities for a Better Environment

  • Community Activism Law Alliance

  • Community Justice Project

  • Cornell Law School Gender Justice Clinic

  • Corporate Accountability Lab

  • CUNY Law Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility Project

  • Disability Rights Advocates

  • Disability Rights Center of the Virgin Islands

  • Dream Defenders

  • EarthRights International

  • Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP

  • FreeState Justice

  • Gerstein Harrow LLP

  • Govern for America

  • Greenpeace International

  • Gupta Wessler LLP

  • Harris County Attorney’s Office

  • Health Law Advocates

  • Immigrant Defense Project

  • Impact Fund

  • Indian Law Resource Center

  • Innovation Law Lab

  • International Refugee Assistance Project

  • Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

  • Justice Action Center

  • Justice Catalyst Law

  • LA City Attorney's Office

  • Labor Bureau of the Office of the New York State Attorney General

  • LatinoJustice PRLDEF

  • Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in the San Francisco Bay

  • The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

  • Legal Aid at Work

  • Legal Aid Justice Center

  • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

  • Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

  • Legal Voice

  • Local Progress

  • Louisiana Bucket Brigade

  • Loyola Marymount University Law School Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation

  • Lutheran Social Services of New York

  • Make the Road New Jersey

  • Michigan Bureau of Elections

  • NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts

  • Nashville City Attorney (Nashville Metro Department of Law)

  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

  • National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

  • National Women’s Law Center

  • New Immigrant Community Empowerment

  • New York City Commission on Human Rights

  • New York Legal Assistance Group

  • NYS Office of the Attorney General (Civil Rights Bureau/Special Investigations & Prosecutions Unit)

  • Oakland City Attorney's Office

  • Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

  • Project South

  • Public Citizen

  • Public Counsel

  • Public Justice

  • Sacred Lands, Native Hands

  • San Francisco District Attorney’s Office

  • Street Democracy

  • Suffolk University Center for Restorative Justice

  • Sur Legal Collaborative

  • Texas Civil Rights Project

  • Texas RioGrande Legal Aid

  • The Action Lab

  • The Advancement Project, National Office

  • The Debt Collective

  • The Navajo Nation Department of Justice - Litigation Unit

  • UNITE HERE Local 11

  • University of San Francisco School of Law Racial Justice Clinic

  • Worth Rises

  • Youth Justice Coalition

  • Yurok Tribe's Office of the Tribal Attorney

FAQs for Justice Catalyst Fellowship Host Organizations

  • Click here for details regarding what the letter should include.

  • 501(c)(3) nonprofits, government agencies, unions, private law firms with public interest practices, and some public defender offices. The host organization can be an established legal organization or an organization looking to hire its first lawyer. We also accept non-501(c)(3) host organizations. However, there are often extra steps involved at non-501(c)(3)s and legal requirements that must be met so it is best to reach out to us early in the Prospectus stage to indicate that interest.

    • 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

    • Plaintiff-side/public interest law firm

    • Union

    • Tribal, local, state or federal government agency

  • Yes, a fellow may have a fiscally-sponsored project of a 501(c)(3) as a host.

  • An interested host organization can invite one of their law student interns to apply for a fellowship with them during their 3rd year of law school or while the candidate is up to two years out of law school. Organizations may also post a job listing for a fellowship candidate, just as they would a regular job posting, and interview and select a candidate to apply for the Justice Catalyst Fellowship with them. Many times, these candidates will partner with the organization to apply for multiple post-law school legal fellowships, such as Justice Catalyst, Equal Justice Works, Skadden, or other fellowship programs. Unlike other fellowship programs, Justice Catalyst allows candidates who are up to two years out of law school to apply.

  • The full amount of funding to the host organization is $73,000 for a one year fellowship term. Our expectation is that those funds will be devoted to salary, and that host organizations will provide health and fringe benefits in addition. However, in cases where the host organization is not in a position to do that, the fellow and the host organization can agree for some or all of the benefits to come out of that $73,000.

  • 1 year with possibility of renewal for 3-12 additional months. Fellows have the option to request renewal of the fellowship midway through Year 1 of their project. If such a request is made, the host organization must submit a renewed Host Commitment Letter at that time.

  • We are not able to pay fellows directly. However, in past situations like this we have been able to work with fellows and hosts to find another solution. This is not something you have to work out in advance: we can work with you and the host organization to figure that out if and when your project is selected.

  • Yes. We are happy to review multiple applications with a single host organization, and neither hosts nor prospective fellows will be disadvantaged. We are committed to considering each project on its own merits and would not have a problem placing multiple fellows at a single organization, if the projects were the best positioned in the applicant pool to advance our mission.

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