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Breaking the cycle of violence and poverty
6,000 women and children + 2,000 legal volunteers = safer, healthier, happier families
Women facing violence at home or threats to their children’s safety have immediate, urgent legal needs.
All of inMotion’s clients live in poverty. With barely enough money for life’s basic necessities, hiring an attorney is not an option.
The harsh reality is that our 2-tiered justice system—one that works well only for those with lawyers to represent them, but guarantees free legal representation only to criminals—makes it nearly impossible for poor women to find the free legal counsel they desperately need.
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inMotion's clients are poor women living
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- 43% live in the Bronx, the poorest urban county in the U.S.
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- 27% live in Queens, the borough with the highest concentration of immigrants
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- 52% are Latina, 28% are African-American and 10% are Asian or a member of another minority group
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- 1 out of every 4 women we serve cannot understand what a judge is saying to them when they enter a court room without an interpreter
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- 80% of our clients are victims of domestic violence
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inMotion’s legal volunteers donated over 74,000 hours representing our clients, providing professional services valued at more than $24 million.
Last year, each of our staff attorneys was responsible for managing close to 10,000 hours of pro bono legal work—approximately 5 times the number of hours a diligent staff attorney providing direct legal representation works each year.
Our volunteer lawyers are on the frontlines protecting the right of vulnerable women and their children. Every day throughout the year, 900 women who found inMotion are getting the direct legal representation they deserve.
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inMotion’s strong community of generous donors and volunteers provides families with hope for the future.
In fiscal year 2009, hundreds of individual and institutional donors came together to support our cause.
Please help to sustain inMotion’s work—so that we can recruit, train and mentor more volunteer lawyers to protect battered mothers and children and to secure needed financial support—breaking the cycle of violence and poverty, before it’s too late.
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We ask that you give as generously as you can.
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$5,000
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Two Saturday walk-in clinics in the Bronx, allowing 80 women to make that first important connection with inMotion. |
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$1,000
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Recruitment of 25 pro bono attorneys. |
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$500
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10 hours of interpretive services for non-English-speaking clients. |
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$250
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One day of outreach at a neighborhood health clinic. |
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$100
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Telephone screening and intake services for 20 women. |
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$50
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Car fare for an abused woman and her children to travel from their home to a safe domestic violence shelter. |
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Última vez actualizada 01/12/2010 |
