About the fund
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The Fund
The Fund
The Greater Lafayette Legal Defense (GLLD) Fund was created in response to public awareness of the racial disparities documented throughout the criminal legal system. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Philado Castile, and many others by police officers have fueled individuals across the nation to take action to support communities most impacted by policing.
The GLLD Fund assists individuals in need of financial support by paying court fees, legal defense fees, and associated costs (e.g. travel, food, and housing).
When cash bail is needed, we connect individuals to an existing resource built specifically for paying bail (while working to end the cash bail system), such as The Bail Project. However, the GLLD Fund may cover bail costs under certain circumstances.
Supporting Our Community
Supporting Our Community
The GLLD Fund is committed to forming long-term relationship building and organizing with those most directly impacted by policing, criminalization, and incarceration. Our organizing is built upon frameworks centered on transformative and reproductive justice. We center marginalized identities and those most impacted by structural violence.
Our coordinators review aid requests and work directly with our clients to help prevent job loss, ensure housing and food security, support children and family, among other needs. In line with the Invest-Divest policy platform set by The Movement for Black Lives, we want our community to invest in the health and safety of individuals harmed by the criminal legal system, and divestment from exploitative forces including prisons, fossil fuels, police, surveillance, and exploitative corporations. We believe that prisons, police, and institutions that inflict violence on communities must be abolished and replaced with institutions that value and affirm the flourishing of communities.
The GLLD Fund partners with Hack Club, which is a 501(c)(3) organization that functions as our fiscal sponsor.
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