2019-04-16T13:09:09-07:00 2018-09-30 134036703 SCHALL & ASHENFARB CPAS 307 5th Ave 15th Floor NEW YORK NY 100166517 990 2017-10-01 133910567 Legal Information for Families Today LEGA 6466139633 32 Court Street Suite 1208 Brooklyn NY 11201 Cathy Cramer CEO 2019-04-16 true Michael Schall P02024184 2122682800 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Cathy Cramer 32 Court Street Brooklyn NY 11201 2512286 false false X www.LIFTonline.org X 1996 NY Provide legal information & community education & promote reform of the courts and public agencies. 22 22 24 26 0 2037574 2392336 0 102 102 5270 22688 2042946 2415126 0 0 1305592 1574243 0 294943 506851 531522 1812443 2105765 230503 309361 1229808 1577590 79265 117686 1150543 1459904 X Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT) is an award winning non-profit dedicated to empowering unrepresented litigants so that they may successfully self-advocate in the New York Family Courts. false false 724446 Court Consultations: Inside New York Citys five Family Courthouses, LIFT responds to litigants needs for more intensive legal services. We provide in-depth Court Consultations that enable unrepresented litigants to meet privately with a Staff Attorney and receive legal advice and vital support in preparing a case. We make this service available to those who are proceeding in child support, custody and visitation cases. Each Consultation usually takes between 45 minutes and one hour. When LIFT added legal advice to our service portfolio in November 2017, we began providing our Court Consultation clients with a substantially deeper level of legal services that empowers them to achieve their legal goals. Our Court-based staff provided 1,045 participants with Consultations in FY18. 331718 Family Law Information Helplines: Anyone with a New York Family Law matter may access LIFTs services through our Telephone, Email and Live-Chat Helplines. Importantly, every EI Site participant is referred to the Helplines, which are tremendously valuable resources for obtaining answers to follow-up questions, additional information, referrals and more. Bilingual (Spanish/English) Helpline Associates provide information regarding family law as well as referrals to community-based legal and social services. In FY18, our Helplines served 14,379 people. 247322 Know-Your-Rights Workshops and Community Outreach:LIFT receives numerous requests to present legal education workshops and clinics at local organizations where family law issues are beyond the scope of their services. Accordingly, LIFT has expanded our legal education program, through which we served more than 300 participants in FY18. Our workshops and clinics are tailored to each audience and community to ensure that we successfully address the questions and concerns of participants, many of whom are proceeding without legal representation in Family Court. In FY18, we began offering a legal clinic -- including brief, one-on-one appointments with a Staff Attorney -- as an alternative to the standard presentation and Q&A. 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Tax filings for period ending September 30, 2015 and later are subject to examination by applicable taxing authorities. false Gala 520939 423779 97160 82789 14371 520939 423779 97160 82789 14371 97160 X X X false false false false false false false false false false Cathy Cramer CEO 153017 6394 159411 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Legal Resource Guides: LIFTs 40 original, multilingual Legal Resource Guides are unique publications, available at all programs and on our website. They cover a wide range of family law issues, including: procedural topics, such as how to begin a case, and detailed information on a litigants rights and possible remedies in the array of case-types. Guides are available in eight languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, French, Haitian/Creole, and Hebrew. In addition, the Guides are written at a fifth grade level in an easy-to-understand Q&A format. They are often a litigants first exposure to the information provided, and quickly become crucial to the litigants ability to proceed effectively without representation. In FY18, we distributed over 63,000 copies of the LRGs at our court-based programs, while more than 40,000 visitors to our website accessed the online version of the LRGs, which may be downloaded. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Education & Information Sites: Located inside Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island Family Courthouses, the EI Sites provide quick answers to family law questions, as well as assistance navigating the courthouse, starting court cases, and accessing court resources. When feasible, the Site Coordinators are bilingual (Spanish/English). We work with hundreds of people each day at the Sites, which are often a litigants introduction to LIFT. They are a key source of support and otherwise unavailable legal information, and serve as a gateway to our other holistic services. Throughout LIFTs history, the EI Sites have been our flagship program. In FY18, the EI Sites served 9,479 people. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Management reviewed a draft of the form 990 with the audit/finance committee and provided edits to the tax preparer. After this process was performed, the form 990 was sent to the full board of directors prior to being filed with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The organization has a board approved conflicts of interest policy. Each board member must fill out an annual declaration stating they had no conflicts or identifying the nature of their interested party transactions. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Each year, the executive committee reviews comparable salaries based on a recognized study and reviews the performance of the executive director to determine if the existing salary falls within these ranges. After a deliberation of this matter, a new proposed salary and benefit package is voted on. The minutes of the board of directors reflect the nature of this process. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Documents are made available upon request.