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ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 Justice for All Officers Jason A. Leckerman Letter from the Michael D. LiPuma, director President Michael D. LiPuma Law Office of Michael LiPuma It is our mission, our passion, and our privilege – That is what comes to mind when we think about Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, Vice President Lauren P. McKenna our work at Community Legal Services (CLS). We know how truly fortunate we are to be able to Fox Rothschild LLP change lives here in and impact policy on a national scale. We also realize that it is our Jason A. Leckerman, responsibility to fight on behalf of our clients, which is why we have worked tirelessly for 50 years to board Secretary Jacqueline Moncrief level the playing field so that justice is accessible to even the poorest Philadelphians. 2015-16 Kimberly Takacs, Thoai Nguyen Treasurer Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Assn. Coalition, Inc. But we didn’t do it alone. Board Hon. Annette M. Rizzo Members JAMS, The Resolution Experts Our supporters, including law firms, foundations, and individuals, are the reason we have been able to succeed. If you have ever made a gift to CLS, you have helped to stop an unlawful eviction, connect Irv Ackelsberg Mark Schwartz Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C. Regional Housing Legal a struggling family with food stamps, ensure that someone with a criminal record has a fair chance at Services finding a job, keep utilities turned on in an elderly person’s home, and fight a predatory mortgage scam. Joseph Baxter Dolores Shaw Debby Freedman, Ruth Blair Executive Director CLS has also been made much stronger by our partnerships. Since our founding by the Philadelphia Barbara T. Sicalides Dorothy Boykin Community Legal Services , LLP Bar Association in 1966, we have thrived because of critical partnerships with the private bar, Edward F. Chacker legislators, law schools, our community, and with our public interest colleagues, including our sister Bernard W. Smalley Jr. Gay, Chacker & Mittin, P.C. Tucker Law Group organization, Philadelphia Legal Assistance. William Cobb Erica Smith-Klocek REDEEMED Covance Now in our 50th year, CLS is using cutting-edge legal strategies and innovative techniques to improve Thomas J. Duffy our clients’ lives, while also remaining true to our mission of lifting people out of poverty and fighting Joseph A. Sullivan Duffy + Partners for justice. As you will read on the pages of this annual report, it has been a great year for CLS and Pepper Hamilton, LLP Arlene Rivera Finkelstein our clients. Robin B. Switzenbaum University of Berger & Montague, P.C. Law School Thank you for making this possible. Kimberly Takacs Aquisha Harris Chubb Group Viola Street Residents Debby Freedman, circa 1997 Association Joseph A. Tate LLP Shubha Jaganath Thane C. J. Trotman Carlton L. Johnson CNA Insurance Debby Freedman Archer & Greiner, PC Executive Director Tiffany Watkins John P. Lavelle, Jr. Defense Logistics Agency Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP Kay Kyungsun Yu Ahmad & Zaffarese, LLC annual report 2015-2016 1 CLS’s Leadership Council raised more than $460,000 from Conrad O’Brien PC Greenberg Traurig, LLP Law Office of Michael LiPuma Sandals & Associates, P.C. nearly 120 law firms and businesses in support of CLS’s Leadership Council Dashevsky, Horwitz, Kuhn & Greenblatt, Pierce, Engle, Funt Littler Mendelson P.C. Saul Ewing LLP Novello, P.C. & Flores Bar Campaign. Donors to the Bar Campaign were honored Lundy Law Schnader Harrison Segal th Members 2016 Dechert LLP Law Offices of Judy Greenwood, P.C. at CLS’s 27 Annual Breakfast of Champions, generously Maniaci, Ciccotta & Schweizer & Lewis LLP DePasquale Law Offices, LLC Jeffrey S. Gross, Attorney at Law Shaffer and Gaier, LLC hosted by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. Co-Chairs Margolis Edelstein Dilworth Paxson LLP Haggerty, Goldberg, Schleifer Bar Campaign Markowitz & Richman Shatzer & Sheridan Elizabeth S. Fenton Jeremy D. Mishkin & Kupersmith, P.C. Donors The Dispute Resolution Institute Sheller, P.C. Saul Ewing LLP Montgomery, McCracken, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, ADR Options, Inc. Hangley Aronchick Segal Walker & Rhoads LLP DLA Piper LLP Coleman & Goggin Sheridan & Murray, LLC 2016 Pudlin & Schiller Anapol Weiss Donovan Litigation Group, LLC Martin Law Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Hannon Law Office P.C. Breakfast of champions Members Archer & Greiner, P.C. Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP McCarter & English, LLP Sidkoff, Pincus & Green, P.C. Harkins Cunningham LLP Baker & Hostetler LLP awards Sara A. Begley William T. Hangley LLP McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney Sprague & Sprague Hofstein Weiner & Meyer, P.C. & Carpenter Reed Smith LLP Hangley Aronchick Segal Bala Law Group, LLC Duffy + Partners Stevens & Lee Law Offices of Equal Justice Awards Pudlin & Schiller Ballard Spahr LLP McLaughlin & Lauricella, P.C. Larry E. Bendesky Eckert Seamans Cherin & Thomas More Holland Swartz Campbell LLC Senator Shirley M. Kitchen, Mellott, LLC Messa & Associates, P.C. Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Roberta D. Liebenberg Barrack, Rodos, & Bacine Law Offices of Pennsylvania State Senate Josel & Feenane, P.C. Bendesky, P.C. Fine, Kaplan, & Black RPC Bazelon Less & Feldman, P.C. Feldman Shepherd Richard F. Michaelson, PC Michael T. van der Veen Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Wohlgelernter Tanner John S. Whitelaw, Edward F. Chacker John E. Savoth The Beasley Firm, LLC Feinberg LLP Momjian Anderer, LLC Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer, Weinstock & Dodig, LLP Community Legal Services Gay, Chacker & Mittin Widener University Brecher & Miller Berger & Montague, P.C. Kats Jamison & Associates Montgomery, McCracken, The Ferrara , LLC Law School Walker & Rhoads, LLP Weber Gallagher Simpson Kathryn E. Deal LLP Klehr Harrison Harvey Peake v. Commonwealth Litigation Team Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C. Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Barbara T. Sicalides Bochetto & Lentz, PC Branzburg LLP • Janet Ginzberg, Fineman Krekstein & Harris, P.C. Pepper Hamilton LLP Pepper Hamilton LLP Weinstein Kitchenoff & Asher LLC Community Legal Services Alan M. Feldman Boni & Zack LLC Kline & Specter Flitter Milz, P.C. Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, William H. Stassen Pinnola & Bomstein White and Williams LLP • Jamie Gullen, Law Offices of Paul Boni, P.C. KML Law Group, PC Fodera & Long Community Legal Services Tanner, Weinstock & Dodig Fox Rothschild LLP Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano Whiteman, Bankes & Chebot, LLC Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Koller Law Fox Rothschild LLP • Seth F. Kreimer, Melanie Foreman Joseph A. Sullivan Prim Law Firm, P.C. Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. Chimicles & Tikellis LLP Kovler & Rush, P.C. University of Pennsylvania Law School Francis & Mailman, PC Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Pepper Hamilton LLP Raynes McCarty Law Office of Clark Hill PLC Donald A. Krain P.C., Attorney at Law • Robert J. LaRocca, Coleman & Goggin Galfand Berger, LLP Rhonda Hill Wilson, P.C. Dennis R. Suplee Reed Smith LLP Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. Cohen Seglias Pallas Langer Grogan & Diver P.C. Nancy J. Gellman Schnader Harrison Segal Gay Chacker & Mittin Winebrake & Santillo, LLC • Peter (“Tad”) H. LeVan, Jr., Greenhall & Furman, P.C. Ann C. Lebowitz, Esq. Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey Conrad O’Brien, PC & Lewis LLP Gibbons P.C. Young Ricchiuti Caldwell LeVan Law Group, LLC Cohen, Placitella & Roth P.C. The Legal Intelligencer Ross Feller Casey, LLP & Heller, LLC Ruthanne Gordon Joseph A. Tate Ginsburg & Associates Console Law Offices LLC (Media Sponsor) Salmon Ricchezza Singer Berger & Montague Dechert LLP Zarwin, Baum, DeVito, Kaplan, Champion of Justice Award Sidney L. Gold & Associates, P.C. & Turchi LLP Cozen O’Connor LeVan Law Group Schaer & Toddy Philadelphia Bar Association James P. Goslee Eric A. Tilles Golomb & Honik, P.C. Linebarger Goggan Blair & Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett Cohen, Placitella & Roth P.C. Arkema Clifford B. Cohn, Esq. Sampson, LLP & Bendesky, P.C.

2 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 3 Youth justice project A Young YOUTH Parent At CLS, we understand the importance of meeting our But the first step ismaking sure youth know that we’re here to help. clients where they are. For our young adult clients, that meant Young people tend to be less likely to reach CLS through the traditional JUSTICE Has a rethinking the way we reach out to youth and handle their cases. legal services model, whereby a client identifies as having a Bright Our advocates noticed that CLS’s young adult clients often had particular legal problem and comes through CLS’s intake. Youth also multiple legal problems and needed more guidance about their face additional barriers, such as school, work, and family obligations, PROJECT Future Ahead rights and how to access help. which make it difficult to travel to our offices during intake hours. So YJP goes to them. YJP partners with several community organizations Twenty-one-year-old Monica attended a Youth Justice Project clinic at Youth Build, a school for young CLS launched YJP in January in partnership with Philadelphia Legal and schools to hold know-your-rights sessions that include on-site YJP’s outreach model and screening tool CLS has changed the way we address the people aged 18-21 who are seeking to complete their Assistance in order to address the complex and intersecting issues intake. By having a presence in youth spaces, YJP reaches even those allow us to reach clients and identify all of unique needs of vulnerable youth, and it is high school degrees. Monica came in because she was youth face every day. YJP seeks to transform the way we provide who do not realize they qualify for legal assistance. their legal problems. But what about the time for our systems to do the same. Just worried that a retail theft arrest from years ago would legal services to vulnerable youth ages 16-24 who face significant way we handle their cases? YJP recognizes as CLS works to solve systemic problems prevent her from getting a job after her high school challenges including high rates of unemployment and graduation. With two young children, Monica wanted that youth, particularly youth who have that keep people in poverty, YJP carries out deep poverty, and involvement in the child welfare and to make sure she could easily make the transition from experienced deep poverty and unimaginable advocacy to shape policies and programs juvenile/criminal justice systems. Our holistic model school to work while providing for her family. At the hardship, sometimes need a tailored that protect youth. From making policy time, she had almost no money. identifies the multiple legal problems young people may approach from start to finish. YJP focuses recommendations to working directly with face, giving youth a true opportunity to stabilize their on building relationships with clients in order our local and national leaders, YJP looks When her YJP advocates screened for multiple legal lives and move past the legal obstacles that keep them to earn trust, a process that is especially at the bigger picture in order to increase issues, Monica realized she needed assistance with in poverty. YJP opens the doors to success by providing important for young people who have employment opportunities for youth, several other legal problems. CLS helped Monica get expungements that lead to employment and education on an affordable payment plan for her electric bill, and experienced trauma. Advocates also promote their health and well-being, and opportunities; connecting youth with public benefits that also helped her address a landlord issue that could have adjust the way they communicate with ensure family safety and stability. Vulnerable keep them safe and healthy; and helping young parents prevented her from getting stable housing in the future. young clients, replacing phone calls and youth in Philadelphia are in danger of provide the best care for their families. Finally, YJP filed an expungement so that Monica could mail with texting and emailing. Every flyer falling through the cracks as they transition have every opportunity to pursue a career in her field. we create, training session we present, and to adulthood. YJP’s coordinated, holistic YJP advocates attached letters of support from the intake we conduct takes into account the approach gives youth hope for a successful staff at Monica’s school, as well as a certificate of her CLS attorney and Youth Justice Project co-founder extensive coursework. With YJP’s strong advocacy, Claire Grandison testifying at a Philadelphia specific needs of young people, who are still future by paving the way out of poverty. City Council hearing on youth homelessness. transitioning into adulthood. Monica’s record was expunged, and she has a bright future ahead.

4 community legal services annual report 2015-2016 5 A Domestic HOUSING & COMMUNITIES Sharswood-Blumberg Neighborhood Advisory Committee to who are focusing on property taxes. CLS’s “tax team” Violence ensure that residents’ rights are protected during every step represents clients who are facing foreclosure, helping them preserve and strengthen communities. of this process. CLS is directly representing individual residents save their homes by getting into affordable payment plans. Survivor The idea of “home” resonates These efforts lead to safer, more stable to ensure that they receive fair compensation for being forced Many of these clients have been longtime community differently with everyone. Some think Who Faced lives for clients and their families. When to move from their homes and authored and distributed a client members, and CLS creates a path for these homeowners to of the house or apartment that they’ve CLS prevents illegal evictions, children guide to address the many questions displaced community stay in the communities they Homelessness made their own. Some think of the can focus on school without having to members had about their rights. CLS has also been holding hold dear. Whether it’s securing community they’ve become part of. For worry about moving around or fearing community education events to advise and educate residents. a loan modification for a client in Remains Safely in Her Home many, home is a feeling of and homelessness. CLS also helps tenants mortgage foreclosure, or comfort. Unfortunately, many Philadelphians’ escape domestic violence and sexual Another important element of our efforts in the Sharswood- keeping an unscrupulous After Ms. H’s husband attacked her, she got a homes, in every sense of the word, are assault by securing emergency transfers Blumberg area is making sure this community is welcoming for landlord from evicting a family, protection from abuse order evicting him from the threatened every day. to new units. When CLS prevents mortgage those who want to return when the redevelopment project is CLS’s expert advocates work house they owned together. She also obtained a foreclosures, community members who complete. We have been successful in securing tenant rights tirelessly to make Philadelphia a spousal support order requiring him to continue paying Community Legal Services’ clients come have been in their neighborhoods for and protections to make sure residents previously living in vibrant city all residents can be on the mortgage, but when he stopped making to us in crisis. An eviction notice or a PHA public housing have an opportunity to return to the proud to call home. payments, the bank began the foreclosure process. years can continue living comfortably in Sheriff’s sale notice suddenly turns a Ms. H tried to apply for a loan modification to stop the place they call home. neighborhood once it is redeveloped, and with the same level the foreclosure, but the bank wouldn’t even speak family’s life upside-down, while eminent of rights and protections they had before being displaced. to her because her name was not on the promissory domain proceedings can uproot an entire A lot of CLS’s existing work came together People of color are disproportionately burdened by housing note, even though both names were on the mortgage. community. Sometimes, our clients can’t this year, working with residents of the costs and income inequality, and CLS works to reduce They would not accept an application from her husband be sure they’ll have a place to live the Sharswood-Blumberg neighborhood. displacement from gentrification, and help overcome either, unless he moved back to the property, despite the next day. Whatever it is endangering The Philadelphia Housing Authority patterns of segregation and racial isolation in the preservation protection order evicting him. clients’ homes and communities, CLS (PHA), in cooperation with the Philadelphia and development of affordable housing. CLS also tackles these is there. issues through our property tax work. As the City amplified its Ms. H met with CLS attorney Peter Schneider, who Redevelopment Authority (PRA), started argued that the lender was violating federal guidelines. eminent domain proceedings to take property tax collection efforts in recent years, CLS saw a sharp Peter brought Ms. H’s case to the judge in charge of the This year, CLS’s Housing Unit and title to over 1,000 properties, including increase of families at risk of foreclosure – and at risk of having the Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program. The judge Homeownership and Consumer Rights 100 that were owner-occupied, in the to leave their lifelong communities because they were CLS Housing Unit attorneys put the brakes on the foreclosure and convinced the bank Unit continued serving thousands of Sharswood-Blumberg community. CLS becoming unaffordable. CLS adapts to address our clients’ Thu Tran and Rasheedah Phillips to accept her application. After months of advocacy, clients fighting to keep their homes, has been working with PHA, the Public needs, so in response, CLS welcomed two fellows this year the bank finally approved the loan modification. while working on a larger scale to Interest Law Center, and the Now, a domestic violence survivor who might have faced homelessness remains safely in her own home.

6 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 7 We were incredibly honored to be on the cover of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Celebrating 50 Years of quarterly magazine in celebration of our 50th anniversary. CLS shares a special Fighting for relationship with the Philadelphia Bar Justice Association, which, led by attorney th William Klaus of Pepper Hamilton LLP, 2016 marks Community Legal Services’ (CLS) 50 anniversary. founded us in 1966. Klaus participated in We are excited to celebrate 50 years of excellence in legal aid, and 50 years of a Bar Association study on the needs of the poor and was exposed to Philadelphia strengthening our community. It’s been an exciting year for CLS, neighborhoods in need, which shaped his vision with so many of our friends and partners helping us to celebrate this milestone. On November 3rd, we celebrated our 50th anniversary with many friends, for providing excellent legal representation to including some who have been with CLS since the very beginning. It was those who needed it the most, but could afford it a wonderful chance to reconnect with alumni and longtime supporters, the least. We have maintained a close relationship share stories of CLS’s successes, and have a great time together. with the Bar Association ever since.

CLS was honored by Philadelphia City Council in April with a resolution in celebration of our 50th anniversary. We have been Our community members are important fortunate to be able to work with City Council to us and we couldn’t imagine celebrating th on many projects over the past 50 years, and our 50 anniversary without them. In June, we deeply appreciate their leadership on we held a block party outside of our North behalf of low-income Philadelphians. The Philadelphia Law Center to let our friends resolution was presented by Councilwoman and neighbors know how much they mean María Quiñones-Sánchez, Councilman to us. We had a wonderful time and were Bill Greenlee, and Councilman Kenyatta proud to celebrate in our North Philadelphia Johnson, and many CLS staff members were neighborhood, where we have had an on hand for the beautiful presentation. office for more than 40 years.

8 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 9 The Nursing data & technology is so efficient, it has allowed organizations that use it to increase DOH making some important improvements, Home Was their expungement capacity exponentially, helping thousands of but there is still work to be done. CLS will people clear their records. continue to gain knowledge from representing Threatening to clients and pair that knowledge with data CLS’s unique model allows us to look for • CLS frequently represents nursing home residents in matters analysis to ensure that residents are being Discharge Marla’s trends that stem from individual legal representation to inform relating to the preservation and protection of their rights. Over the protected and to advocate for safer Son Illegally our systemic advocacy. In recent years, CLS has increased its use past several years, CLS has witnessed a significant decrease in nursing homes. of data and technology to help more people and to enhance the the enforcement of nursing home regulations and in resident A few months after the release of CLS’s report on nursing impact of our legal work. The use of data to support our arguments protections by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH). • Using our legal expertise and knowledge of home enforcement, Marla, a 78-year-old woman with makes our advocacy more effective, andit allows us to understand Last year, CLS, led by attorney Sam Brooks, analyzed DOH data how policies impact low-income people, CLS significant mobility issues, came to CLS. Her 60-year-old son the scope of the problems we aim to solve. Technology makes our to see if inspection and enforcement data matched up with has studied the effect of data and technology had suffered a stroke and was now in a nursing home. The nursing home was threatening to discharge Marla’s son to work more efficient, allowing us to serve more clients, even when our anecdotal experiences, and found shocking evidence to on people in poverty, and is now working her home because of non-payment, but with her own health resources are limited. prove that enforcement had decreased. We released a report to educate policymakers, advocates, and other members of our community. This year, issues, she could not take care of him. Her son could not walk, of our analysis, and brought the report to the attention of CLS and Philadelphia Legal Assistance hosted a symposium during Philly Tech was incontinent, had significant problems speaking, and had Here are just a few ways that CLS is using data and policymakers, stakeholders, and the media, in order to make Week on the ways in which big and open data can both hurt and help low-income lost function on one side of his body. This was an unsafe and technology to better serve our clients: positive change for nursing home residents. Our analysis has led to people. The symposium was an exciting chance to educate our local tech and civics illegal involuntary discharge because the son was not given • CLS attorney Mike Hollander developed the Expungement community, and has spurred opportunities to work collaboratively with that community his required 30-day notice before discharge, and because Generator (EG) in 2001 to automate the process of generating to envision better outcomes for our client population. Marla could not take care of him. expungement petitions, so that individuals could clear their expungement CLS attorney Sam Brooks took action to keep Marla’s son safe. criminal records and have a fresh start. A single arrest can generator stats • We are also looking at the issue of predictive analytics, as more government agen- He immediately contacted the nursing home, and when they be a life sentence, even if the arrest never led to conviction. cies and other entities are using algorithms to make decisions that impact our clients’ attempted to move forward with the discharge, Sam contacted Decades after being arrested, a criminal record can still make 5,200 20,805 589 lives. To that end, CLS will be working on monitoring these efforts, communicating the Department of Health (DOH). Unfortunately, the DOH hotline hours petitions people it extraordinarily difficult to find a job and safe, affordable housing. our clients’ needs, implementing legal strategies to prevent harm from occurring, representative did not take the correct steps to remedy the The EG performs complex legal analysis on criminal docket and advocating administratively to protect our clients’ rights. problem. Ultimately, Sam was able to work with the nursing sheets downloaded from the Pennsylvania court’s public home so they would avoid discharging Marla’s son. Because criminal record website to determine if and what type of CLS is looking towards the future, continuing to innovate, and harnessing data to CLS does powerful policy advocacy in addition to representing clients, Sam did not stop there. He brought this case to the expungement is possible. It then produces ready-to-file of strategically and persuasively advocate for our clients. We are also responding to attention of DOH’s leadership and other policymakers to push expungement petitions and allows the user to track the attorney generated by CLS helped changes in technology as a way to prevent injustice and to further our anti-poverty work. time Expungement get expunged for critical improvements to DOH systems, like the hotline. progress of all of a client’s expungements. Because the EG As data and technology grow increasingly important in our society, CLS is using its saved Generator this year Sam is using data, legal expertise, and our clients’ stories to 50 years of experience to ensure a brighter future for the people we serve. advocate for improvements to DOH operations so that people like Marla’s son can get the care they need. 10 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 11 A Chance for Children in Crisis to Thrive PEOPLE WHO MADE JUSTICE POSSIBLE CLS Clients Create Change Gifts Received July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 When a family is in crisis and a child must be removed from In April, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Housing their home, it is important that the child have the opportunity and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro kicked to be placed with a family member, who can offer comfort and Annual Donors Norman B. Berlin, Esq., and Reverend Valeria C. Bullock off National Reentry Week with a listening session with several CLS clients who informed the cabinet members about stability, rather than in a foster home. Because children have ◊ Justice for All Campaign Mrs. Elizabeth Berlin Jennifer Burdick a better chance of thriving when they are living with family, Sustaining Leadership Donor the challenges they have faced because of their criminal Leonard A. Bernstein, Esq. Leonard A. Busby, Esq. instead of in foster care, and because there have been many records. CLS clients also spoke about their role in helping to Judith Bernstein-Baker, Esq. bureaucratic barriers in Philadelphia to placing children David F. Abernethy, Esq., and Gail and Gary Cantor create change, including efforts to reform key laws and policies, Philip A. Bertocci, Esq. with relatives, CLS published a report last fall that offered Phyllis K. Simon Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D. and CLS Litigation Director Sharon Dietrich provided policy recommendations based on decades of representing people recommendations for expanding Philadelphia’s kinship care Ronald B. Abrams, Esq. Edward G. Biester, Esq. Vincent V. Carissimi, Esq. program. Our report prompted DHS to change its policy with criminal records. Irv Ackelsberg and Dr. Andrew M. Stone and Catherine C. Carr, Esq., and and ensure that more children are placed quickly with family, Patricia Urevick Dr. Gene B. Bishop Louis N. Tannen preventing unnecessary trauma and promoting long-term success. Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D., RN, Bonita Blazer, Ph.D. Robert J. Casey, Jr. & Associates FAAN, FRCN Gordon and Gretchen Cooney Harriet Dichter and John Schapiro Michael Epstein, Esq. and Dr. Elizabeth B. Rappaport Terry Fromson and Michael A. Bloom Charles B. Casper, Esq. Ms. Kaethe B. Schumacher Jonathan Walters Elizabeth Ainslie, Esq. Julia and Craig Corelli Sharon Dietrich Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, Esq. Ms. Marcia Bloomfield Sheila and Ed Chacker William H. Ewing, Esq., and Nancy H. Fullam, Esq. Gaetan Alfano, Esq. Michael S. Blume, Esq. Steven M. Coren, Esq. Diana S. Donaldson Hannah Fishman, Esq. Fernando Chang-Muy, Esq., and Anne C. Ewing Ms. Diane Galeone Anapol Weiss Mr. Eric Blumenfeld Leonard Rieser, Esq. Travis Cos, Ph.D. Maire E. Donovan, Esq. Stephen A. Fogdall, Esq. eXude, Inc. Nicole D. Galli Harriet Anderson, Esq. Ms. Reid N. Bodek Stephen P. Chawaga, Esq. Caitlin G. Coslett, Esq. Thomas E. Doran, Esq. Ethan D. Fogel, Esq. and Christopher C. Fallon, Jr., Esq. Sari N. Fogel, M.D. William E. Gibbons Ms. Amanda D. Atkinson Michael S. Bomstein, Esq. Professor Roger S. Clark and Joseph J. Costello, Esq. Christopher E. Dougherty, Esq. Jennifer L. Feden, Esq. Professor Amy H. Boss Karen L. Forman, Esq. Helen Gindele Jonathan Auerbach, Esq. Ms. Jeanne M. Boone Harold Cramer, Esq. Leslie Sudock & Daniel Drecksage William P. Fedullo Theodore Clattenburg, Jr., Esq. Elizabeth W. Fox, Esq. Jay H. Ginsburg, Esq. Ms. Suzanne Landau and Sarah Bouchard and David L. Crawford, Ph.D. and Ms. Nancy Drye Ms. Lisa Feinman Ms. Kathleen M. Duffy Paulette and Lawrence Fox Shirley and David Ginzberg Robert Auritt, Esq. Frank Fesnak Anna E. Coady Jacqueline R. Dungee, Esq. Kathleen Creamer, Esq., and Alan M. Feldman, Esq. Walter and Francine Fox Ron and Laurie Ayler Ms. Barbara F. Boyle June Coburn and Robert Brown Ms. Anna M. Durbin and Janet Ginzberg & John P. Caskey Thomas Klemm, Esq. Albert J. Feldman Michael and Sally Bailin Ceciley Bradford-Jones Sarah Coburn Mr. Peter Goldberger Stephen M. Foxman, Esq. Ms. Eva Gladstein and Kristen Dama and Jacob Nagy Marc A. Feller, Esq. Mr. Ben Burenstein Elisabeth and Stuart Bass Michael N. Braffman, M.D. Robert P. Cocco, Esq. Robert Ebby Bruce Franzel, Esq. Mr. Tracy R. Dandridge Mr. Brian E. Felty Ms. Janet L. Gold Sara A. Begley, Esq. Michelle H. Brix David Codell and Linda Choung Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Deborah L. Freedman, Esq. ◊ Joanna K. Darcus, Esq. Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C. Elizabeth S. and Stephen F. Gold, Esq., and Mr. Ronald W. Belfon Janis Brodie, Esq. Mr. Paul Coghlan Carl H. Fridy, Esq. Andrew A. Fenton Danielle Deery, J.D., MURP Mr. Daniel Elysee Dr. Barbara Gold Larry E. Bendesky, Esq. Ms. Margaret K. Brooks David L. Cohen, Esq., and Michael Froehlich and Nan E. Feyler, Esq. Stephen H. Gold, Esq. Rhonda R. Cohen, Esq. Mr. Stephen DeLacy Karl E. Emerson Susanna Gilbertson Judy F. Berkman, Esq. Caitlin Brown Ms. Debra F. Fickler, Esq. and Mr. Ross O. Goldberg Elias and Marcia Cohen Monique DeLapenha, Esq. James D. Epstein, Esq., and Terry Gimmellie and Brooks Hull Mr. Richard L. Berkman and William H. Brown, III, Esq. Mr. G. S. Russell Tom Hickey Julie S. Goldemberg, Esq. Ms. Toni Seidl John Coogan Patrick Devine, Esq. Sharon Browning, Esq. Dr. Daniel Fife and Jules M. Epstein, Esq. ◊ Justice for All Campaign Sustaining Leadership Donor

12 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 13 PEOPLE WHO MADE Jennifer Kye, Esq. Brenda L. Marrero, Esq. Ms. Beth Patel Ms. Estelle Richman Irving Schneider and Eliminating Lifetime JUSTICE POSSIBLE Zola Dincin Schneider Fair Chance Hiring Gifts Received July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 David L. Ladov, Esq. and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Marritz Ms. Patricia M. Patterson Stephen F. Ritner, Esq. Employment Bans Allan Schneirov, Esq. Sayde J. Ladov, Esq. Allan K. Marshall, Esq. Ms. Bettina A. Pearl Hon. Annette M. Rizzo ◊ This year, Philadelphia City Jennifer Schultz, Esq. Winnie Lanoix and Mr. and Mrs. Timothy I. Martin Ms. Ruth Perlmutter Mr. Dennis Roberts Council passed a bill which In December 2015, the David Kannerstein Mr. Marvin E. Schuman amends the city’s Ban the Dr. Jeremiah Goldstein and Edmund L. Harvey, Jr., Esq. Roberta Jacobs-Meadway, Esq., & Alba E. Martinez, Esq. Paul Perpiglia, Esq. Dorothy E. Roberts, Esq. Commonwealth Court of Box ordinance to turn it into Ms. Varley S. Paul Jay K. Meadway, Esq. John P. Lavelle, Jr., Esq., and Ms. Jennifer Schwartz Pennsylvania, by a 7-0 vote, Kulsoom Hasan, Esq. Sanford L. Pfeffer, Esq. Professor Florence W. Roisman Colleen F. Coonelly, Esq. ◊ Mr. and Mrs. William J. McDevitt a broader bill ensuring fair Ms. Sabrina L. Golphin Ms. Sara Jacobson William W. Schwarze, Esq. overturned lifetime criminal Mr. Bruce P. Hayes and Philadelphia Bar Association Dr. Rafi Rom and Mr. Lance E. Laver and Patty A. McGlone hiring for people with record bans that unfairly shut Katherine J. Gomez, Esq. Ms. Pat Keating John Jamieson, Jr., Esq. and Dr. Jennifer K. Walter Michael T. Scott, Esq. Ms. Mary Sweetland Laver Ms. Mary T. McNichol Philadelphia Trial Lawyers criminal records. out thousands of people from Ms. Dariel I. Jamieson Harold I. Goodman, Esq. Mrs. Florence C. Hayes Association Carmen J. Romano, Esq. Michael E. Scullin Jason A. Leckerman and Mark R. Mendenhall, Esq. jobs in nursing homes and Benjamin and Shiri Jerner CLS helped to design and Ruthanne Gordon, Esq., and Louise Hayes Jean K. Sbarge Amy Pickard and Joseph E. Ronan, Jr., Esq. Dveera Segal & Bradley Bridge home health care, as well as Joseph L. Messa, Esq. John C. Burroughs Carlton L. Johnson, Esq. Ramon Monras-Sender implement Philadelphia’s Ms. Margaret Hayes Spellman & Mr. Jesse M. Lee Anne & Richard Rosenberg Nina Segre, Esq. deprived elderly, sick and James R. Meyer, Esq. Robert and Caryl Gorman Mr. Richard Spellman Earthen E. Johnson, Esq. Ban the Box ordinance, and disabled people of excellent James M. Lenaghan, Esq. Leah Pillsbury and Casey Thomas Ms. Lori J. Rosenkopf Amy Sepinwall, Esq. Leslie A. Miller & Richard Worley drafted the amendments to caregivers. CLS put together Lydia Gottesfeld and Honorable Arthur L. Haywood, III Ernest Jones and Rae Scott-Jones Stuart Leon, Esq. Ralph and Cheryl Pinkus Harold Rosenthal, Esq. Jonathan Sgro, Esq. the bill, in order to help more Jacob Eden Jeremy D. Mishkin, Esq. the litigation team that brought The Honorable Marilyn Heffley Jason R. Jones, Esq. people become employed. Judy Leone ◊ Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano Jeffrey N. Rosenthal, Esq. David G. Shapiro, Esq. this case. Because we won this George D. Gould, Esq. and Ms. Jacquelyn Moncrief Robert C. Heim, Esq. and Mr. Edward Kahalley, Sr. The amended bill requires Dr. Diane L. Gallagher The Honorable Benjamin Lerner Regina Olchowski and Ed Potter Dan and Anya Rosin Beth Shapiro and Mike Torrey case, many more people in Ms. Eileen Heim Robert J. Mongeluzzi, Esq. Karol Kahalley, Esq. a conditional offer of Pennsylvania will now be able Mr. and Mrs. John D. Graham Howard Lesnick and Maggie and Jon Potter Mr. and Mrs. Jason Ross Jane Sheehan Margaret Henn, Esq. John W. Morris, Esq. employment prior to a records to work in the growing field of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Kahley Claire Grandison Carolyn M. Schodt Carl S. Primavera, Esq. Jason W. Rubin, Esq. Ms. Stephanie Shepard check, improves enforcement, Lynda M. Henry, Esq. Mr. Francis Murray and long-term health care and in Richard and Linda Katz and allows employers to Ms. Marita Green Christine C. Levin, Esq. Ms. Valerie T. Pringle Ms. Madeline Shikomba other fields where lifetime Nadia Hewka, Esq. Ms. Linda Aveni Murray Ronnie Rubin, Ph.D. Mr. Daniel Katzenberg consider convictions for only Gerry and Gretchen Greenberg Joanne C. Lewers, Esq. Wendell E. Pritchett & Ms. Lisa Shulock bans exist. Rhonda Hill Wilson, Esq. Mr. Michael W. Murray Louis S. Rulli and Carolyn C. Rulli Paul J. Kennedy, Esq. Anne Kringel seven years. Deborah R. Gross, Esq. and Theodore M. Lieverman, Esq. Barbara T. Sicalides ◊ Jennifer L. Hoagland, Esq. Jack and Barbara Nagel Robin Sampson, Esq. Stuart B. Kurtz, Esq. Richard W. Kessler, Esq. and Charisse R. Lillie, Esq. Michael and Michelle Quirk Benjamin R. Neilson, Esq. Juliet Sarkessian, Esq. Brian A. Silikovitz, Esq. Kathleen and Andrew Hohenadel Doris H. Kessler Jamie Gullen, Esq. Michael D. LiPuma, Esq. ◊ Amber Racine, Esq. Arthur E. Newbold, IV, Esq. Mary Gay Scanlon, Esq., and Mike Silver, Esq. Ron Hollander & Maureen Martel Barry D. Kleban, Esq. Joe & Alison Gushue Gail K. Lopez-Henriquez, Esq. Ms. Cynthia S. Randall and Mark S. Stewart, Esq. Ms. Donna M. Nogowski Amy Sinden, Esq. and Ms. Mary Horstmann Alan F. Klein, Esq. Mr. Paul R. Albrecht Ms. Karen R. Guss and Michael D. Mabry, Esq. John H. Schapiro, Esq. Ms. Brenna Herpmann Ms. Jennifer A. O’Leary, Esq. and Mr. Lewis Rosman Jonathan Houlon, Esq. Eli H. Klein, Esq. Michael H. Reed, Esq. John A. Macoretta, Esq. and Mr. Peter Lee Dina Schlossberg, Esq. Lili L. Smack & Eugene F. Smack Jr. Ms. Joan E. Halbert Ms. Medha Narvekar and Marlene E. Kline, Esq. Ms. Lizabeth Macoretta Abraham C. Reich, Esq. and Mr. Mark A. Hughes Matthew Olesh, Esq. Sherri Reich, Esq. Bella Schnall, Esq. Thomas E. Smith & Nancy G. Smith John R. Hanger, Esq. and Ms. Sarah Kloss and Edward Madeira, Jr., Esq. Michael and Karen Ossip Jill Schneider, M.D. Mr. Ward Smith Dr. Luanne E. Thorndyke Mary P. Hugues, Esq. Mr. Hari Palaiyanur M. Taylor Aspinwall and David S. Mandell, Sc.D. and Kimberly C. Oxholm and Robert J. Reinstein Peter D. Schneider and Ms. Paula Smith Daniel W. Martin Harrell, Esq. Ms. Mary Hurtig Kathryn Kolbert & Joann Hyle Ms. Jamie Kudera Carl Oxholm III Susan L. DeJarnatt Curtis R. Reitz, Esq., and Erica J. Smith-Klocek, Esq., and Ms. Kim Harrington Ms. Joanne Isaac Marilyn and David Kraut Lynn A. Marks and Ms. Janet Parrish Judith Nichols Renzulli Kevin Klocek Judith and Palmer Hartl Mr. Matthew Jablin Ms. Muriel B. Kudera A. Clifford Pearlman ◊ Justice for All Campaign Sustaining Leadership Donor

14 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 15 Stability for PEOPLE WHO MADE JUSTICE POSSIBLE in honor In Honor of Nan Feyler and In Honor of Brendan Lynch In Honor of Abbey Whitt In Memory of G. Bradley Rainer Lisa Shulock Mr. William H. Johnson Alison E. Hirschel, Esq. Joan K. Rainer First in the Nation Gifts Received July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 In Honor of Jahan Ali-Khan Youth Leaving Dr. Ellen M. Tedaldi and Kevin & Denise Lynch Water Affordability Sofia N. Ali-Khan, Esq. and In Honor of Rainie Williams In Memory of Vera Todorovic Ms. Katherine Walden Foster Care Dr. Nadeem Ali-Khan In Honor of Brenda Marrero Ms. Cathy Weiss and Howard and Vesna Sacks Program In Honor of Debby Freedman Brianna and Reid Freiheit Mr. Edward Solomon Mr. Henry J. Sommer, Esq. and Michael L. Temin, Esq. In Honor of Robert Ballenger In Memory of David Wycoff Karen Kress Weisbord Elizabeth Goodell, Esq., and Based on CLS’s advocacy with Mrs. Beth F. Sommer Ms. Ellen Wilson and In Honor of Patty McGlone In Honor of Kay Kyungsun Yu Ms. Mary Anne Lucey Prince Altee Thomas, Esq. Harry Weiss, Esq. Janet Scannell After seeing hundreds of partner organizations Juvenile Dr. Fredric V. Price Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Samuelson James M. Lenaghan, Esq. and Patricia Warner Aleena Sorathia, Esq. Marilynn Sager, Esq. Ms. Carol Thomson Ms. Kathryn M. Wellbank desperate clients with no Law Center and Homeless In Honor of Jen Burdick In Honor of the Honorable In Memory of Yunja Yu Yasmeen and Iqbal Sorathia Mr. Jonathan A. Weiss and running water in their homes, Edward Thrasher, Esq. Ms. Mary L. Wernicke Gerald A. McHugh Kay Kyungsun Yu, Esq. Advocacy Project, the Social Ms. Jaime-Alexis Fowler and Dr. Abigail Wolf CLS worked with Philadelphia Honorable Edmund B. Spaeth Security Administration Ms. Liz Thul John S. Whitelaw Mr. Adam Borelli Ms. Laura T. McHugh In Honor of Janet Ginzberg In memory City Council to establish a (SSA) agreed to allow youth Wanda James Speight ◊ In Honor of Cathy Carr In Honor of the Orlyk, Hammer, M. Kelly Tillery, Esq. Ms. Abigail Whitt Ms. Wendy Epstein and In Memory of June Axinn first in the nation program transitioning out of foster care Alison E. Hirschel, Esq. Rakay, Parker, Watters, Fedyk, Jeremy S. Spiegel, Esq. and James G. Steiker, Esq. Mr. Sidney Axinn Gifts In Kind for affordable water bills for Eric A. Tilles, Esq. Jeffery W. Whitt to apply for SSI (Supplemental Maia Jachimowicz Mr. Ethan Tannen Chuck Forer, Esq., and Casselton, and Walton Families low-income Philadelphia Security Income) benefits six David C. Toomey, Esq. Mr. David H. Wilderman Nicholas E. Orlyk, Esq. In Memory of Paul A. Brooks Archer & Greiner, P.C. In Honor of Michael Carroll Wendy Peck families. We are in the William Stassen ◊ Ms. Carol E. Juza and months prior to discharge to avoid Thu Tran, Esq., and Ms. Freida A. Williams Aaron Finestone Michael & Madeline Rausch In Honor of Peter Schneider AthenianRazak LLC Mr. Michael C. Juza process of implementing delays in getting vital payments. Steiner, Segal, Muller & Donan Arnold Feldman, Esq. Irving Schneider and Willig, Williams & Davidson In Honor of the CLS Staff In Honor of Harold I. Goodman Ballard Spahr LLP this program, so the City Previously, youth leaving the Ms. Regina M. Stokes-Miller Zola Dincin Schneider In Memory of Esther Carr Joseph Z. Traub & Rachel K. Weiss Sharon Gornstein, Esq. Mr. Noah J. Goodman Dechert LLP of Philadelphia can serve Nia M. Wilson, Esq. Mr. Norman G. Schneider & Mr. Ethan Tannen foster care system could apply Janet and Seymour Stotland as a model for other cities David Keller Trevaskis In Honor of the In Honor of Lydia Gottesfeld Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP for benefits just 90 days in Mr. and Mrs. Carl Witonsky Ms. Linda G. Kanefield In Memory of Charlotte Carter Mr. and Mrs. Glen R. Stuart CLS Development & Avi Eden and Emmy Miller nationwide, which are Thane C. J. Trotman, Esq. The Legal Intelligencer advance, which was rarely David J. Wolfsohn, Esq. In Honor of Beth Shapiro Mr. Ethan Tannen struggling to find the Joseph A. Sullivan ◊ Communications Team In Honor of Lydia Gottesfeld and enough time to get benefits Kenneth I. Trujillo, Esq., and Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Beene In Memory of Jim Freedman Montgomery, McCracken, Besorah Won, Esq. Kimberly L. Takacs, Esq. Jacob Eden balance between the costs in place. This new time frame Ms. Mary E. Summers and Laura L. Trujillo, Esq. Edward Blumstein, Esq. Walker & Rhoads, LLP Mr. Elliot A. Ratzman and In Honor of Jonathan Stein of operating utility systems Mr. Rogers M. Smith Sara Woods, Esq. In Honor of Anna Coady will significantly increase the Dr. Walter Tsou Professor Ann E. Freedman Keith and Marianne Coady Ms. Jennifer Bush In Memory of Claudia Goodman Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and recognizing the likelihood that youth who are Dennis R. Suplee, Esq., and Shelly D. Yanoff and Kitt Turner, Esq. In Honor of Robin Switzenbaum Mr. Noah J. Goodman fundamental right to transitioning out of foster care Gerry Kaufman In Honor of Kathleen Creamer In Honor of Louise Hayes Pepper Hamilton LLP Patricia H. Suplee Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Block affordable, life-essential will have stable benefits. A large Paul M. Uyehara, Esq. Mr. Timothy Creamer Mr. Jay R. Franke and In Memory of C. Dallett Hemphill Saul Ewing LLP Lisa and Suresh Swaminathan Ms. Carrie Young and water service. Ms. Hilary Woodward Ms. Pamela Baker In Honor of Carol Thomson Laurence M. Lavin, Esq. number of homeless youth Ellen Josephson Vargyas, Esq. Mr. Arun Prabhakaran Erica J. Smith-Klocek, Esq., and Robin B. Switzenbaum, Esq. Leslie A. Hayes, Esq. and Mrs. Jane McCarthy have aged out of the foster care In Honor of Sharon Dietrich In Memory of Michael Katz Kevin Klocek Lisa R. Verges ◊ Suzanne J. Young and Mr. Norman Gross Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith system, so this income is vital to Corrine D. Sylvia, CFRE Mr. Kurt Denke Mrs. Edda B. Katz David T. Rammler Ms. Louise Y. Tukey Dennis R. Suplee, Esq., and Jo-Ann M. Verrier, Esq., and In Honor of Thu Tran preventing homelessness. Walter J. Taggart, Esq., and Ms. Roberta L. Steele In Memory of Edgar Levin Mr. Mark C. McGuire Tom & Jackie Zemaitis Sydelle Zove and Patricia H. Suplee John Stember, Esq. Ms. Lauren D. Sustersic and Joell Taggart Stephen Kaufman Joan and Jerry Roller Mr. Thomas J. Wamser 14 Anonymous Donors Mr. Frank L. Sustersic In Honor of Julia May Dizzley Kimberly L. Takacs, Esq. ◊ In Honor of Margaret Henn In Memory of Sam Maitin Lisa Washington, Esq. Law Office of Rhonda Hill In Honor of Pam Walz Lilyan Maitin Joseph A. and Detta M. Tate Katherine & Tom Cole Wilson, P.C. Alissa Halperin, Esq. Ms. Gloria Watts In Memory of Jennifer Pinkus Phyllis B. and Richard K. Taylor In Honor of Michael LiPuma In Honor of Richard Weishaupt Mr. David B. Webster Law Offices of Paul Boni, P.C. Ralph and Cheryl Pinkus Mr. Robert H. Taylor Ralph and Cheryl Pinkus Norman J. Weinstein, Esq. ◊ Justice for All Campaign Sustaining Leadership Donor

16 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 17 PEOPLE WHO MADE The LEGAL JUSTICE POSSIBLE Department of Housing Financials Gifts Received July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 & Urban Development MANAGEMENT As of June 30, 2016 United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Deborah L. Freedman, Esq. MAZON: A Jewish Response Executive Director Total Capital Campaign Operating Arbitration Grants and Southern Revenue & Other Support: Fee Donors Fellowships to Hunger University of Pennsylvania Katherine J. Gomez, Esq. National Employment Law Project Paul M. Berman, Esq. American Bar Association Deputy Director of University of Virginia School Contracts & Grants 7,692,975 7,692,975 Edward F. Chacker, Esq. Harry and Esther Brown The November Fund of Law Powell Fellowship Legal Practice Charitable Foundation Oak Foundation Contributions 2,757,695 250,026 2,507,669 Francis P. Devine, III, Esq. Brenda L. Marrero, Esq. Berwind Fund Open Society Foundations Deputy Director of Operations Attorney Fees 254,734 254,734 Danielle L. Duffy, Esq. 2015 Justice for Borchard Foundation Center on Pennsylvania Health Peter G. Erdely, Esq. All 5K Sponsors David Francis Interest Income 60,711 59,060 1,651 Law & Aging Access Network Jennifer R. Etkin, Esq. Ahmad Zaffarese LLC Finance Director Other Income 9,410 9,410 The Peggy Browning Fund Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Edward S. Goldis, Esq. Chubb Group Lisa Verges Center for Law and Social Policy The Pew Charitable Trusts Subtotal Revenue 10,775,525 309,086 10,466,439 Barbara Halpern, Esq. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Development Director City of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Interest on Mellott, LLC Emmanuel O. Iheukwumere, Esq. Sharon Dietrich, Esq. Claneil Foundation, Inc. Lawyers’ Trust Accounts Board Samuel H. Israel, Esq. E-Waste Experts Litigation Director and Managing Philadelphia Bar Foundation The Mayor’s Office of Community Attorney, Employment Unit Kenneth M. Kapner, Esq. Flitter Lorenz PC Expenses: Empowerment and Opportunity Philadelphia Corporation Hangley Aronchick Segal Kathleen Creamer, Esq. Program Services 9,322,431 63,020 9,259,411 Jerry Lyons, Esq. Connelly Foundation for Aging Pudlin & Schiller Managing Attorney, Family Management and General 1,020,626 1,020,626 Gail Marcus, Esq. Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation The Philadelphia Foundation Steve Harvey Law Advocacy Unit Daniel E. Rhynhart, Esq. Duffy Fellowship The Leo and Peggy Pierce Fundraising 448,318 448,318 LexisNexis Michael R. Froehlich, Esq. Maureen Rowan, Esq. Family Foundation Equal Justice America Managing Attorney, The PNC Foundation Law Office of Michael LiPuma Total Expenses 10,791,375 63,020 10,728,355 Sandra Swenson, Esq. First Hospital Foundation Homeownership and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP The Public Health Fund Consumer Rights Unit The Samuel S. Fels Fund Public Health Management Pepper Hamilton LLP Francis & Mailman Fellowship George D. Gould, Esq. Change in Assets -15,850 246,066 -261,916 Cy Pres Awards Corporation Raynes McCarty in Consumer Law Managing Attorney, Energy Unit Berger & Montague, P.C. Public Welfare Foundation Reliable The Horace W. Goldsmith Brodie & Rubinsky Amy Hirsch, Esq. Net Assets Skadden Fellowship Foundation Aleena, Yasmeen, and Foundation Managing Attorney, North Iqbal Sorathia Beginning of Year, restated 9,698,666 5,530,723 4,167,943 Green Tree Community Health Single Stop USA, Inc. Philadelphia Law Center and Foundation The United States Department US Legal Support Public Benefits Unit of Justice Veritext Legal Solutions Independence Foundation Rasheedah Phillips, Esq. End of Year 9,682,816 5,776,789 3,906,027 Kay Kyungsun Yu Managing Attorney, Housing Unit

18 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES annual report 2015-2016 19 Highlights of CLS’s History residents must be given notice prior to CLS successfully challenges a series of Public Welfare, alleging discrimination In the case Kaplan v. Chertoff, CLS of Public Welfare adopts regulations HUD, is successful in obtaining 1966 1976 1983 changes in their level of care. of SEPTA fare hikes, saving millions of 1994 against people with limited English proficiency. successfully negotiates a partial protecting survivors of domestic 2013 preliminary injunction requiring CLS represents appellees in the CLS, as counsel to Philadelphia dollars for low-income riders. solution for challenging the denial violence who need help from the Court of Common Pleas Judge HUD to remediate lead based paint CLS represents low income Medicare Advocacy by CLS and other case of Resident Advisory Board v. Unemployment Project (PUP), is of SSI for refugees, asylees and welfare system. Raymond Pace Alexander grants CLS’s in accordance with the City Health 1987 beneficiaries across Pennsylvania in 2003 legal services programs leads Mayor Rizzo, where a federal court instrumental in the establishment 1990s other humanitarian immigrants charter over objection. At this time, Department regulations before Action Alliance v. Snider, where the who are unable to naturalize within Philadelphia to create the Owner finds racial discrimination by the City of state mortgage foreclosure In reaction to advocacy led by CLS and the organization places attorneys in they sell residential properties in A mass tax sale by the City was stopped federal court approves a settlement the allotted seven years due to Occupied Payment Agreement of Philadelphia, RDA, PHA, and HUD assistance programs (HEMAP) after the Women’s Law Project, Pennsylvania CLS’s advocacy leads to a ban various existing anti-poverty program Philadelphia. The case is eventually in part by CLS, leading to thousands CLS takes the lead against a scourge with sweeping revision to the delay in processing applications program for delinquent and orders Whitman Park public a court stayed sheriff’s sales on all Governor Ed Rendell signs Act 44 to on the shackling of pregnant offices throughout Philadelphia. settled in accordance with of low-income homeowners receiving of fraudulent trade schools and administration of the Medicare for citizenship. Settlement allowed property taxes. housing to be built in the southern Philadelphia mortgage foreclosures lift a lifetime ban which had prevented incarcerated women in the injunction. individual payment agreements, saving obtains millions of dollars in student Buy-In Program, leading to 12,000 new expediting of such cases to tip of Philadelphia. for more than a year. $ women survivors of physical and Pennsylvania’s county jails and their homes. loan cancellations. beneficiaries and 6.2 million in refunds. prevent loss of benefits. 1969 sexual abuse, who were in recovery correctional facilities. 2015 1974 A second CLS class action, Garcia v. 1985 Sebelius, brings further improvements from addictions, from getting benefits CLS wins Shapiro v. Thompson, as the CLS helps draft the PA Protection 1990 to the Medicare Buy-In Program 15 for which they were otherwise eligible. After years of advocacy by CLS CLS wins O’Dell v. O’Bannon; District 2009 2011 court declares welfare residency laws At the outset of the SSI program, from Abuse Act, a national model for years later. and our partners, the SNAP asset CLS represents the plaintiffs in Court orders Philadelphia Department unconstitutional because they denied CLS successfully protected 5,000 state domestic violence legislation. CLS lawyers win a landmark U.S. Supreme test was eliminated in PA. Now, the federal court case Mayhew v. of Human Services to provide a range 2005 After years of CLS advocacy, CLS, working with TURN, is an individual the right to travel. Pennsylvanians from losing benefits Court case, Sullivan v. Zebley, which allows our clients and thousands of other Cohen which holds that reducing of services for families whose children 1999 Pennsylvania mortgage regulations instrumental in the passage of an based on flawed procedures hundreds of thousands of low-income families do not have to choose welfare benefits in order to collect have been placed in foster care. CLS advocacy helps avoid cuts to change to require brokers and ordinance to protect the rights during the transition from the prior 1978 children with disabilities to become CLS engages the State in broad between food and other 1971 overpayments is unconstitutional AdultBasic, the low-cost program for lenders to have documentation of tenants who are victims of state disability program to the new eligible for Social Security benefits. negotiations over implementation of the proving that a borrower has the ability basic necessities. Led in part by CLS, Bolden v. PA without adequate notice and a hearing. uninsured individuals and families domestic violence, so that their federal SSI program, in the case of welfare reform work requirements, helping to pay any offered mortgage loans. Working with the Tenants Action Group, whose income was just high enough lease cannot be terminated, while CLS files a racial discrimination Buckles v. Weinberger. State Police is one of the first ever to prevent massive cash assistance cutoffs, CLS is instrumental in getting an anti- 1991 to disqualify them for no-cost health also giving the victim the ability to class action against Local 542 of race discrimination suits against a preserve access to education, and enforce 1986 lockout ordinance passed into law. insurance, and instead win an terminate a lease early or request A combination of high-impact the Operating Engineers, ultimately state police department. After a long, employment rights. Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, allocation of $17 million. CLS advocacy results in $7 million that their abuser be evicted. litigation led by CLS and systemic opening the trade that operates bitterly fought trial, the case results The law created remedies for tenants CLS, in the federal court case of A federal court requires the state after national review of legal services over four years in utility assistance advocacy with statewide heavy construction equipment to in an integration of the force by who had been illegally locked out Brown v. PHA, is able to create a to properly issue expedited food partners led to the prevention of African Americans. and made an illegal lockout a criminal programs, concludes that CLS is the 2000 for low-income clients, with an hundreds of minority workers. grievance procedure for public stamps to poor persons—as summary offense. most successful legal services provider 2008 additional $27.6 million in energy 2012 devastating health benefit cuts CLS challenges the merger between housing tenants. represented by CLS—in exigent in the nation. efficiency and conservation assistance. for 1.1 million adult Medicaid 1981 situations as a result of Harley v. Lyng. PECO Unicom Corporation, leading As a result of advocacy by CLS and In conjunction with Morgan Lewis recipients in PA and to Medicaid CLS helps Congress adopt nation’s first 1989 to a settlement agreement which not the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, & Bockius LLP, CLS successfully being fully expanded in our state, Lead Paint Poisoning Prevention Act. 1975 1993 only improves PECO’s low-income the Office of Long Term Living (OLTL) 2010 helping an estimated 600,000 At CLS’s prompting, a federal court negotiates an opportunity to CLS wins Smith v. Commercial Banking customer assistance programs but also releases an Aging Program Directive people become eligible for reinstates Medical Assistance CLS brings the case Fifty Residents get Medicaid reinstated for CLS is able to successfully conclude Corporation, a Third Circuit decision CLS wins Rosetti v. Shalala; the focuses on the poorest of the poor. (APD) directing that individuals with affordable health insurance. benefits to elderly and disabled of Park Residence Nursing Home After more than a decade of 100,000 people who lost Medical 1973 Washington Square East litigation that firmly established the right for low- Third Circuit decision leads to Social intermediate level care needs qualify Social Security beneficiaries in the v. DPW before the Commonwealth work by CLS, the Women’s Law Assistance when paperwork was which results in the building of low income debtors to sue their mortgage Security Administration’s adoption of for Home and Community Based Shadis v. Beal ruling, distributing over Court to argue that nursing home Project and the Community Justice lost or incorrectly processed by the CLS, in City Wide Coalition Against income units in this urban renewal area. companies when their consumer rights new standards for assessing disability CLS files 11 civil rights complaints services, preventing loss of services for $1 million in damages. Project, Pennsylvania’s Department Department of Public Welfare. Childhood Lead Poisoning v. were violated. caused by HIV and AIDS. against Pennsylvania’s Department those individuals. Center City Office: 1424 Chestnut Street | Philadelphia, PA 19102 | Telephone: 215-981-3700 | clsphila.org North Philadelphia Law Center: 1410 West Erie Avenue | Philadelphia, PA 19140 | Telephone: 215-227-2400