Mission

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community education, advocacy, and organizing to secure their access to fundamental resources and services.

What We Do

We focus on projects that benefit large numbers of people that fall within six subject areas, each of which is a fundamental resource that low-income people need to live healthy productive lives: education, environmental justice, healthcare, employment, voting and housing. We specialize in these six subject areas because, from the point of view of the individual, the barriers to securing material needs are intertwined, not neatly segmented.