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Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for Texas C-BAR's pro bono referral services, an organization
must meet the following criteria:
- Be a nonprofit organization (including association) or seek to be one.
- Serve low-income populations.
- Be governed by a board.
- Have an inability to afford legal services/paying for legal services would
negatively impact charitable work.
Priority is given to nonprofits whose focus is improving quality of life and
community infrastructure in low income communities through affordable housing
development, workforce development, creating access to credit and capital,
child care and other means. Exceptions to the above guidelines require
approval from C-BAR's executive committee.
Other non-published factors which staff will use to evaluate eligibility
include:
- organization's reliability and viability/ability to work with volunteers
- area of legal expertise required by the referral
- access to other pro bono resources
- demonstrated impact
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