Financial support for LSSM is diverse.
Your financial support is vital to the delivery of legal services to our low-income clients. Without your support many client needs would go unmet, potentially resulting in denials of justice that could have tragic repercussions for families in our community. Your tax-deductible donation helps LSSM save homes, assist the elderly and disabled, prevent homelessness, protect those who have been abused, and prevent the destruction of families. Your donations can literally help us change lives. Please donate to assist in LSSM’s efforts to provide “a wealth of justice to those who have neither.”
General Gift
Yes, I want to help ensure the continuation of needed services by LSSM. Please use my tax-deductible donation to expand services to the poor. Your contribution would have an enormous impact on LSSM’s ability to help many more vulnerable individuals and families gain equal access to justice. Giving to LSSM is a very effective and efficient way to make a difference.
Annual Gift
The generous financial support of our friends in the legal community and the general public helps maintain LSSM as the front line law firm for poor and low-income people in Southern Missouri. Your tax-deductible contribution to the Annual Fund Drive will support the efforts of LSSM advocates to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families who depend on us for access to justice. A donation to this campaign will help expand services in the 43-county service area of LSSM. Your generosity will allow us to: help battered spouses escape domestic violence; defend low-income tenants in unlawful evictions and force landlords to rectify dangerous housing conditions; and protect the elderly from scams.
In Honor Of or In Memory Of
Remember your friends and loved ones by acknowledging them on a special occasion. Your commemorative gift in honor or memory of a colleague or loved one to LSSM will help expand services to low-income individuals and families.
Springfield Office Bar Campaign
Support from public-spirited law firms throughout our service area makes it possible for LSSM to provide access to justice for thousands of poor and low-income people who otherwise could not afford an attorney to help them seek their legal rights. Participation in the Justice For All Campaign enables members of the legal community to fulfill one of the legal profession’s most basic tenets, “Equal Access for All.” Your generosity will help sustain our ability to provide legal assistance to individuals and families and important legal information and education to others. A donation to this campaign will help expand services in the following 19 counties in the southwestern portion of LSSM’s service area: Barry, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Laclede, Lawrence, Oregon, Ozark, Polk, Shannon, Stone, Taney, Texas, Webster, and Wright.
Sikeston/Cape Girardeau Offices Bar Campaign
The generous financial support LSSM receives from law firms, individual attorneys, corporations, foundations, and the general public demonstrates solid community backing for LSSM’s mission and is a reflection of our strong ties with the private bar, the business sector, and the communities we serve.
By increasing funding provided by a variety of federal, state and local grants and such voluntary support enables LSSM to provide access to justice to thousands of poor and low-income people who otherwise would have nowhere else to turn for help with their legal crisis—when domestic violence or poor housing conditions endanger their health and safety, unscrupulous landlords and scam artists threaten to turn them out of their homes or an error denies them their rightful access to medical care and supportive services. A donation to this campaign will help expand services in the following 12 counties in the southeast portion of LSSM’s service area: Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Perry, Ripley, Scott, and Stoddard.
Rolla Office Bar Campaign
Your financial support is integral to the delivery of legal services to our low-income neighbors. Without your support many client needs would go unmet, potentially resulting in denials of justice that could have tragic repercussions for families in our region.
Your donation helps LSSM save homes, assist the elderly and disabled, prevent homelessness, protect those who have been abused, and prevent the destruction of families. Your donations can literally help us change lives. A donation to this campaign will help expand services in the following 12 counties in the central portion of LSSM’s service area: Crawford, Dent, Gasconade, Iron, Madison, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, Reynolds, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve and Wayne.
Donating Offline
If you would prefer to contribute by mail, send a check to: Legal Services of Southern Missouri, 809 North Campbell, Springfield, MO 65802.