| Grantee |
Grant Award |
Collier County Women's Bar Association
Living Will & Health Care Surrogate Project
Conduct pro bono legal clinics to assist in drafting documents to meet individual needs.
Provide safe keeping documents along with wallet-sized card to indicate where documents may be located in the event of emergency.
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$4,000 |
F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association
CBA Community Law Project
To assist low-income African American senior citizens in Belle Glade, Delray Beach, Riviera Beach and West Palm Beach in creating wills and advances directives and conduct two Community Forums for the African American community about hot button legal issues such as the rise in foreclosures.
|
$2,000 |
|
George Edgecomb Bar Association
GEBA Mentoring Program -- Franklin Middle Magnet Pre-Law Academy
For 25 students to participate in the Bar’s Role Model Committee mentoring program to provide students exposure to the various facets of the legal profession via monthly speaker bureaus, a State Courthouse tour, law office visit tours, participation in a mock trial and debate, an essay writing competition and a Scholarship banquet.
|
$4,000 |
Haitian Lawyers Association
Community Legal Education
Through a bi-monthly radio program in Creole broadcast in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties enhance public awareness about the consequences of unlicensed practice of law and how to avoid being victimized by such practices which are provided mainly in immigration, family law and foreclosure/loan modification, to educate the general public about the importance of having an attorney handle their legal affairs, and the legal resources available to them as immigrants and homeowners.
|
$4,000 |
Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers
Kinship Care CLE and Mentoring Training
To provide CLE to attorneys to educate and train them to provide legal and mentoring assistance to relative caregivers. Free only if attorney agrees to take one pro bono case. Otherwise CLE fee will go back to support the program.
|
$4,500 |
Marion County Bar Association
Law and Government in High School
To support the county's first high school program offering student exploration of careers in law through bar members assisting young people as they make important career decisions regarding the development, interpretation and practice of law.
|
$3,000 |
Martin County Bar Association
Basic Legal Seminars and Legal Research
Through seven seminars/ workshops provide basic understanding of several aspects of the law to anticipated 100 elderly and low and middle-income residents and expose residents to the resources available at the Marion County Law Library.
|
$3,000 |
Nassau County Bar Association
Family Visitation Center
Funding to assist in the bar association's efforts to establish a visitation center for Nasssau county parents subject to court-ordered supervised visitation.
|
$3,500 |
Palm Beach County Bar Association
Electronic Field Trip
To produce an "electronic field trip" in collaboration with the Education Network (Palm Beach County School system) and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County to educate students and the general public about their rights and responsibilities of citizenship with focus on the judicial and corrections system. |
$3,500 |
Sarasota County Bar Association
Civics and Law in Education Program
To bring civics and law back into the educational system in Sarasota County through a magazine written by volunteer Sarasota County Bar and YLD members and distributed free to approximately 40,000 students in collaboration with Sarasota County School System and local newspaper (has donated $30,000 in production/distribution costs).
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$2,500 |
Tallahassee Women Lawyers
Professional Women's Exchange
To bring professional women together to raise awareness of specific community service needs related to women/families -- a network to help address those needs. The 2009-10 program will focus on helping transition women from public support to work, but this network would serve as a permanent vehicle too raise money annually for projects.
|
$2,500 |
The Tampa Bay Hispanic Bar Association
TBHBA Pro Bono Initiative -- Hispanic Pro Se Fliers
Members will volunteer translation assistance to Spanish-speaking pro se family law litigants who attend "Family Forms Clinics" at the George Edgecomb Courthouse in Tampa.
|
$4,500 |
Virgil Hawkins Bar Association of Polk, Highlands, and Hardee Counties
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Jump Off: A College Recruitment Event
To plan and execute their annual Jump Off college recruiting event for high school students from Polk, Hardee and Highlands counties to learn about Florida's four historically black institutions of higher education, meet with recruiters and receive financial aid information targets primarily to minority and low income students.
|
$3,500 |
Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association/ Foundation
Historic Black Church Project
Provide multi-disciplinary resources in education, law, and social services to under-served communities through: 1) rights education seminars and 2) legal referrals for pro bono legal assistance.
|
$4,600 |
Total |
$47,600 |
