Indy Legal Aid Receives Funding for Providing Key Services During the
Covid-19 Pandemic
Indy Legal Aid is a recipient of a substantial grant from
the Central Indiana COVID-19 Community Economic Relief Fund (C-CERF). As the announcement stated, "The C-CERF Taskforce, and all the many donors of the fund, are happy to provide this grant as you directly impact our Central Indiana neighbors with much needed support during this challenging time in our community."
As a result of Covid-19, two critical needs are emerging in Central Indiana: the need for legal assistance with evictions and the need for legal assistance with unemployment claims. While these issues will be pressing for everyone, they will be especially urgent for low-income Hoosiers. Already living in underserved neighborhoods, this population is especially at risk for homelessness and food shortages should they be evicted or lose their unemployment.
"In five weeks while working remotely, we have received more than 3700 calls of which we have been able to help over 550 individuals and families," said John Floreancig Indy Legal Aid General Counsel. "We expect the calls to increase dramatically in the next few months. We are already being inundated with calls related to housing, employment, debt, and family law issues."
Thanks to Lilly Endowment Inc., Central Indiana Community Foundation (through the Glick Fund and The Indianapolis Foundation), Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, United Way of Central Indiana, and individual donors, C-CERF has now delivered more than $15.8 million to 100 of our Central Indiana non-profit partners whose work is focused on the specific issues and populations emerging as critical in our community, particular to the COVID-19 crisis.
