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LIFT Wisconsin Named Finalist for 2024 Wisconsin Innovation Awards
We are thrilled to announce that LIFT Wisconsin has been selected as one of the 31 finalists for the 2024 Wisconsin Innovation Awards! The Wisconsin Innovation Awards (WIA) seek to celebrate and inspire innovation across the state by highlighting and honoring the...
LIFT Wisconsin Introduces Consumer Debt Resource to Empower Wisconsin Residents
The 20% of Wisconsinites who are burdened by debt in collections now have a free way to end debt harassment, thanks to the newest addition to the award-winning Legal Tune Up Tool (legaltuneup.org). Creditors that hold unpaid debt often end up pursuing court judgments,...
LIFT Wisconsin Congratulates Fellow Madisonian Anthem Award Winners
In February, Dr. Alvin Thomas and Dr. Dipesh Navsaria became the latest Madisonians to win Anthem Awards, bringing UW-Madison’s total Anthem Award count up to five! Launched by The Webby Awards (hailed as “the internet’s highest honor”), the Anthem Awards honors the...
LIFT Wisconsin Director Speaks at Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee Hearing
Good Afternoon Committee, I am Erica Nelson, Executive Director of Legal Interventions for Transforming Wisconsin, or LIFT Wisconsin. The organization is dedicated to increasing access for low-income Wisconsinites to civil legal justice. I am here in support of the...
LIFT Wisconsin™ Launches Driver’s License Reinstatement Tool
LIFT Wisconsin announces the launch of its driver’s license reinstatement tool that offers Wisconsin residents the ability to access publicly available data using an online program that will identify driver’s license suspensions and automate the ability to reinstate a...
LIFT Wisconsin Receives Wisconsin State Bar 2021 Wisconsin Legal Innovator Award!
The Wisconsin State Bar’s Legal Innovator Award recognizes LIFT Wisconsin’s Legal Tune Up, an online tool developed to help thousands of Wisconsin residents who have criminal or eviction records that prevent them from accessing employment or housing opportunities....
Free Expungement Clinics – LIFT Wisconsin is Now Partnering with the Urban League of Greater Madison
Is your Wisconsin criminal record hurting your job search? Did you know that you may be eligible to have certain convictions expunged or certain arrests removed from your record? Do you live in Dane County? We may be able to help. The FREE expungement clinics are a...
Jay Patel, LIFT Wisconsin’s Advisory Board Member, Named to Wisconsin’s 34 Most Influential Asian American Leaders by Madison365!
Henry Sanders, Jr CEO, 365 Media Foundation Publisher, Madison365 and FoxValley365 Jay Patel is an investment portfolio manager at American Family Insurance. He helped found the company’s social impact venture capital unit. As a Founding Curator in the World Economic...
LIFT Wisconsin is Hiring: Full Time Legal Services Coordinator for Dane and Racine Counties
The Economic Justice Institute, Inc., a Wisconsin-based non-profit that runs LIFT Wisconsin, is dedicated to ensuring equitable access to justice for Wisconsinites. LIFT offers an online tool, legaltuneup.org, to streamline solutions to common legal barriers to...
State Bar of Wisconsin 2021 Legal Innovation Awards Honors LIFT Wisconsin’s Legal Tune Up!
The legal innovator award recognizes LIFT Wisconsin’s Legal Tune Up, an online app developed on behalf of the thousands of Wisconsin residents who have criminal or eviction records that prevent them from accessing employment or housing opportunities. The Legal Tune...