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Beyond PILF:

Beyond PILF:. Funding Your 2011 Summer Public Interest Job. Where to Begin. Many funding sources are connected to a locale or practice area Consider “your” practice areas Consider locale- both your home state and where you plan to work during the summer

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Beyond PILF:

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  1. Beyond PILF: Funding Your 2011 Summer Public Interest Job

  2. Where to Begin • Many funding sources are connected to a locale or practice area • Consider “your” practice areas • Consider locale- both your home state and where you plan to work during the summer • Legal Aid Assoc. of CA, Dan Bradley Fellowships, http://www.calegaladvocates.org/about/item.2412-LAAC_Awards • NJ Summer Public Interest Legal Fellowships, www.lsnj.org/internprog.htm

  3. Typical Funding Sources • Bar Associations- • Mass Bar Foundation Legal Intern Fellowship • Affinity Groups- • Pride Law Fellowships, Asian American Law Foundation of New York • Private Foundations- • Peggy Browning Fund, Blackstone Legal Fellowship • Topic Area- • ALDF (Animal Legal Defense Fund)Summer Research Grants, AFL-CIO Law Student Union Summer

  4. How to begin your search • Apply to internships that have funding (or possibility of funding) attached • PSLawNet- Career Central Financing a summer public interest job • Summer Funding Opportunity Binder ( Career Services resource room) • Google search terms- • “summer fellowships in law topic” • “funding summer public interest work”

  5. Where else can I search? • Practice area websites (non-traditional legal sites) • American Bar Association • Society of Professional Journalists • http://www.spj.org/i-pullkilgore.asp,1/14/2011 • Kaiser Family Foundation (health law related) http://www.kaiseredu.org/fellowships/default.aspx# • Environmental Law and Policy Center, http://elpc.org/2010/12/01/summer-2011-law-student-internship-opportunities

  6. The search does not end with the PILF deadline • A number of fellowships (and paid legal internship positions) become available through April. • The Anheuser-Busch Norman Y. Mineta Fellowship: The deadline is April 30, 2010.

  7. Examples of deadlines (2010/11) • Peggy Browning Fund Summer internship- www.peggybrowningfund.org, 1/14/2011 • Bergstrom Fellowship- www.law.umich.edu/bergstrom, 2/14/2011 • Federal Communications Bar Assoc. Foundation- www.fcba.org/foundation/internship_stipends.shtml, 3/19/2010

  8. Deadlines (2010/11) • Qlaw Foundation Public Interest Summer Grants- www.q-law.org, 3/19/2010 • Equal Justice America Legal Services Fellowships- www.equaljusticeamerica.org, 3/21/2011 • ABA John J. Curtin, Jr. Fellowship- www.abanet.org/homeless/curtin.shtml, 3/25/2011

  9. Deadlines (2010/11) • Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Program- www.equaljusticeowrks.org, 4/1/10 • PrideLaw Fund fellowship- www.pridelawfund.org/fellowships/summer, 4/1/2011 • Southern District of TX, Fellowship Grants, www.fbasouthtexas.org, awarded to law students who serve as volunteer interns for Federal judges or agencies within Southern District of TX. 4/02/2010

  10. Deadlines (2010/11) • Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties-www.nationinstitute.org, 5/01/2010 • For more summer funding see: www.PSLawNet.org

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