Legal Aid Bureau

The Maryland Legal Aid Bureau is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free civil legal services to financially eligible individuals across the state. With a mission to advocate for Marylanders experiencing poverty, the Bureau focuses on achieving equity and social justice through community collaboration and systemic change. Generated from the website

The Tahirih Justice Center is an innovative, efficient, and strategic nonprofit organization that works to protect immigrant women and girls from gender-based violence through legal services, advocacy, and public education programs. Focused on our mission, we also work to maintain and grow our organizational capacity. Our dedicated staff, infrastructure, processes, policies, and procedures make the Tahirih Justice Center better able to provide life-saving protection for our clients. We intentionally foster a learning environment ; to that end, we have integrated processes for continuous reflection, evaluation, feedback, and learning that include: A professional development stipend for each staff member, and routine in-house trainings on issues such as stress management, diversity, and public speaking Regular staff and departmental meetings where information is shared and everyone is invited to raise concerns and help address problems Tahirih's efforts to manage high quality programs and operations have been recognized through several distinguished awards, including the 2007 Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management. We invite you learn more about who we are, join us in our efforts to overcome gender-based violence and achieve justice for women and girls in need. FACT The 100 days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide alone created 500, 000 widows in Rwanda. Learn More