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Funding plaintiffs fighting for civil rights
If you or someone you know has experienced:
- Police misconduct, excessive force, or wrongful death
- Immigration detention abuses, due process violations, or discriminatory enforcement practices
- Unlawful detention, incarceration-related abuse, or prisoners’ rights violations
- Discrimination based on race, gender, disability, religion, age, or other protected status
- Discrimination in health care access or treatment
- Employment or workplace discrimination or retaliation
- Disability discrimination and denial of reasonable accommodations
- Environmental contamination or pollution of your community
- Housing discrimination or wrongful eviction
- Predatory or discriminatory banking, lending, or financial practices
For the time being, we are only able to fund plaintiffs residing in California, New York, and Oregon
We prioritize applications by need, urgency, and equity.
Improve civil rights ecosystems:
Civil rights protections are critical for the welfare of communities, institutional accountability, and healthy democracy. Effective civil rights enforcement depends on lawsuits brought by people whose civil rights have been violated.
Lawsuits are difficult, painful, and often bring prolonged financial strain. People bringing cases face pressures to abandon the suit or settle prematurely. The hidden economic burden of bringing civil rights lawsuits critically undermines access to justice, American civil rights protections, and democracy.
Wind & Rain Nonprofit Fund provides financial support to people pursuing civil rights cases, so financial hardship does not prevent access to justice.
What We Do
Grant support designed to:
Wind & Rain Foundation Fund does not provide legal advice, influence legal strategy, or participate in settlement decisions.
We provide financial support for plaintiffs only.
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FAQs
How it works
Wind & Rain operates independently of legal strategy and settlement decisions.
About funding
No. Support takes the form of a “non-recourse” recoverable grant. You receive direct funding to cover critical expenses and only need to pay it back if your case is successful.
No. We do not influence legal strategy or settlement decisions.
Yes. Information is stored securely and only reviewed by the Foundation team.
You do not need to repay the grant. The advance is yours.