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12.12.11
Urban Justice Center
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For the past two Mondays, we've highlighted organizations to which you might consider donating your time and/or money, pointing you to Stockings with Care and charity: water. And we told you about the Team Bond Christmas Benefit Concert to raise money for the two young Brooklyn parents who are both undergoing treatment for cancer. The Benefit Concert takes places this Thursday at The Living Room. Tickets are $20.
Today, a look at the Urban Justice Center. Started in 1984 as the Legal Action Center for the Homeless, the UJC continues its mission of helping a wide range of New Yorkers in need: street vendors, sex workers, refugees, homeless youth, victims of intimate partner abuse, the poor, people with serious mental illness.
In short, they provide legal advice to, and advocate for, vulnerable people who find it hard to get representation elsewhere. The Urban Justice Center doesn't wait for people to come to them—they do outreach in hospitals, in jails, on the streets and anywhere else they are needed. Free legal clinics in soup kitchens are also an important part of the mix. Last year alone, the Center's Homelessness Outreach & Prevention Project won over two million dollars in government benefits and rental assistance for the poorest New Yorkers.
You can support the crucial work the UJC does by supporting them with a donation here.
  
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