The Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation supports the initatives below to help legal aid programs expand funding, develop best practices and more effectively serve low-income people.

• The Equal Justice Coalition was created by the Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association and MLAC to protect the state appropriation for civil legal aid.
• The Diversity Coalition improves services to low-income clients by building cultural competence among legal aid staff and addressing other diversity-related issues within Massachusetts legal aid community.
• The Gordon Fellowship helps legal aid programs overcome barriers to service by providing funding to hire recent law school graduates equipped to reach out to underserved communities.
• The Racial Justice Fellowship addresses pervasive problems of racial injustice through systemic advocacy and other strategies.
• The Client Council was created to empower client board members of legal aid programs and to serve as a resource to the MLAC board and staff, as well as to legal aid programs and their boards of directors.
• The Central Technology Project seeks to standardize technology for MLAC- and LSC-funded legal aid programs in Massachusetts.