| The
Advocates for Human Rights received a grant to enhance training
and legal resourse support for volunteer attorneys providing legal
services to asylum seekers. |
HOME
Line received a grant to support a tenant hotline and High
School Renters Education Program. The program aims to educate young
people to avoid legal problems related to rental housing. |
Minnesota
Justice Foundation received a grant to support the Summer
Clerkship Program, in which law students provide assistance to public
interest and poverty law offices. |
| Children’s
Law Center of Minnesota (CLC) received a grant to support
its Foster Child Advocacy Project and the Ramsey County Guardianship
Project to assist children in the foster care system in Ramsey County.
|
Immigrant
Law Center of Minnesota received a grant for general support
of its legal services, the goals of which are to reunite and maintain
immigrant families and to free immigrants from persecution and abuse
in their home countries. |
Neighborhood
Justice Center, Inc., an organization that provides criminal
defense services to low-income persons, received a grant to provide
general operating support. |
| Civil
Society, which strives to address the under-reporting of
crime and crime prevention in high-crime areas, received general operating
support. |
Innocence
Project of Minnesota received a grant to support its public
outreach and legal education program to address the issues of wrongful
conviction. |
Northern
Star Council/Boy Scouts of America received a grant to support
the Juvenile Diversion program, which offers non-violent offenders,
ages 10-18, a community-based alternative to the juvenile court system. |
|
Council on Crime and Justice received a grant to
fund a VISTA attorney to support the Criminal Records Assistance Project,
which provides pro bono legal assistance to those seeking to seal
a criminal record. |
Lawyers
Concerned for Lawyers, which offers free, confidential help
to lawyers, judges and law students with addictions, mental health,
stress, family and work related problems, received a grant to continue
its outreach in Ramsey County, and to develop more attorney-specific
resources. |
St. Paul Public Schools Teen Court received a grant
to support its innovative Teen Court, which combines an early intervention
and diversion juvenile justice program with an educational volunteer
program. |
|
Dispute Resolution Center received a grant to support
its community-based conflict resolution programs in Ramsey County.
|
Legal Corps received a grant to support its business
law pro bono program, which provides free legal services to nonprofit
organizations and low-income owners of small businesses. |
Tubman Center received a grant to support their Ramsey
County Legal Services, which provide legal representation, advocacy
and outreach addressing family law and domestic violence matters. |
|
Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc. received
a grant to support a series of training sessions for Hmong farmers
from Ramsey County whose farms were destroyed by a storm last summer. |
The Loan Repayment Assistance Program received a
grant to support a loan repayment assistance award to an attorney
serving low-income residents in Ramsey County. |
William Mitchell School of Law received a grant to
provide a partial scholarship to a low-income student of color. |
