2020-10-26T09:24:34-00:00 2019-12-31 O'Leary & Anick 11933 W Burleigh Street Ste 100 Wauwatosa WI 53222 990 2019-01-01 475156371 LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC LOTU 4148757085 2515 N 124th St Room 201 Brookfield WI 53005 Gregory Schrieber Treasurer 2020-10-26 true Christine Daws 4147740300 2020-10-26 67.52.45.83 2020-10-26 14:23:59 CD P 1915293EB6197724CAFE3E01645496144BA3E562 1915293EB6197724CAFE3E01645496144BA3E562 2019 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Barry Slagle 1231 N 44th St Milwaukee WI 53208 526114 false X lotuslegalclinic.org X 2015 WI LOTUS Legal Clinic empowers survivors of sexual violence and trafficking, by providing direct, comprehensive legal services, advocacy and community education, and invest in survivors as change agents. 15 15 8 15 0 533875 514037 500 0 944 967 -13340 4079 521979 519083 0 0 226497 376206 0 66118 69723 199397 296220 575603 225759 -56520 225634 202633 3415 43516 222219 159117 LOTUS Legal Clinic empowers survivors of sexual violence and trafficking, by providing direct, comprehensive legal services, advocacy and community education, and invest in survivors as change agents. The vision of the organization is to create a national model for restoring dignity, rights and survivors voices. false false 368605 LEGAL SERVICES LOTUS Legal Clinic provides free legal counsel to survivors of gender-based violence and human trafficking regardless of income. POLICY INITIATIVES LOTUS policy initiatives are to create systemic change in our laws and judicial systems to improve the lives and protect the legal interests of victims of gender-based violence and human trafficing. SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT LOTUS believes that survivor empowerment is the core of what makes LOTUS unique as a legal clinic. Programs like Untold Stories help our clients live through the challenges of their cases and come through with hope and purpose. Using art, literature and other humanities gives power to the law and direct access to what survivors teach us and ask us to change about the status quo. LOTUS helps survivors meet their personal goals through scholarships and services to help them become change agents, nonprofit CEOs, peer mentors, writers and public speakers. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Government documents, conflict of interest and financials statements are made available for public inspection upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Annually the Board is required to complete a confilict of interest disclosure statement that outlines any potential confilcts. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Other Fees for services - majority of contract services relate to legal counsel provided to survivors.