Free Counseling for Area Nonprofits

The Community Counsel Center of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. provides free legal and technical assistance to non-profit groups. The Center’s mission is to revitalize blighted neighborhoods by assisting community-based organizations and other not-for-profit corporations that are working to improve their neighborhoods. For example, some groups have become non-profit real estate developers to provide decent, affordable homes that private market development is unable to produce. All groups must seek to increase private and government funding and services to low and moderate income areas of Northeast Florida and lack the financial resources to retain a private attorney.

Free legal help for community-based Non-Profit Groups is available in these areas: corporate, tax, real estate, zoning, construction and employment issues.  The Center also provides information regarding governmental programs, grant sources and providers of technical assistance for non-profit groups that want to pursue community economic development ventures.

One staff attorney and volunteer attorneys are available to assist eligible groups. The Community Counsel Center gives priority to community-based organizations that:

• Have low-income Board members; and
• Have development projects in a low-income neighborhood or that benefit low and moderate income residents.

The Center might assist other groups and projects if resources are available. We also help individual clients with real estate title problems who are trying to apply for government help, such as the City’s Limited Repair Program, homestead exemption for ad valorem property taxes and FEMA.

For further information, contact attorney Carol Miller at (904) 356-8371, Ext. 332.