Lavender Legal Center
Grant Amount Awarded: $1,500
Lavender Legal Center serves Iowa’s LGBTQ+ community through direct representation advocacy and referrals, with a priority for serving those with low-income and our LGBTQ+ youth.
The demand for our services continues to grow, and we have more than doubled our caseload this fiscal year. The demand is so high that we have reinstated a waitlist for our services. We are now a staff of two full-time attorneys and one part-time office manager.
During our fiscal year 2023-24, we served just over 70 Iowans. This fiscal year, we have served over 180 LGBTQ+ Iowans, and we still have four months left of our fiscal year. Some of this is natural growth as Lavender Legal Center enters our fifth year in existence.