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Alabama Law Foundation Grants. The Alabama Law Foundation is committed to increasing access to quality legal assistance for low-income Alabama citizens. As Alabama’s major grant maker to programs that provide legal aid to the poor, the Alabama Law Foundation annually awards IOLTA grants for three purposes: to provide legal services to disadvantaged citizens, to assist with administrative costs for programs working for justice, and to support law related education.
In addition, the Kids’ Chance Scholarship is given by the Alabama Law Foundation, and outlines how one receives the scholarships, which totaled 30,000 dollars last year. One of the child’s parents must have been killed or injured in a work-related accident. Numerous students receive the scholarship each year, given out by a panel representing the business, labor, law, medical, and education fields.
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| Arizona |
LRE Academy Teacher Scholarship Application. The Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education is sponsoring professional development for teachers. The goal of this program is to allow teachers to attend the LRE Academy for free.
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| Federal Courts |
ABA Division of Public Education.
Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center (PAD). PAD is a nonprofit fraternal organization that supports civic and law-related education programs. It helps generate support for programs and produce publications and other media to encourage involvement by lawyers, judges, and other justice professionals in law-related education.
Center for Creative Leadership in Law-Related Education (CRADLE). CRADLE provides a variety of staff development and technical assistance for teachers and leaders in the area of law-related education. It has a large repository of teacher developed law-related and civic education materials. They have also developed strategies for implementing a North Carolina mock trial competition and for using technology in law-related education classes. For more information, write to: Wake Forest University School of Law, 2714 Henning Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27106-4502.
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| Florida |
Justice Teaching Institute. This is a division of the Florida Law Related Educaion Association that offers a Florida Courts training seminar for secondary public and private school teachers.
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| Georgia |
Law-Related Education Consortium.
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| Maryland |
Maryland Summer Center for Law & Government.The MSC for Law and Government is available to rising ninth and tenth graders who are in gifted and talented, honors, or advanced placement social studies or government. Students with strong academic potential and interest in law and government will also be considered. Students will have the chance to meet attorneys, law clerks, judges, and legislators as they argue and analyze civil, criminal and appellate cases. Students will also investigate current issues confronting our courts, such as civil liberties, juvenile justice, and free speech.
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| Missouri |
We the People Summer Institute. The We the People summer institute is an intensive, week-long profession development program on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Participants take part in lectures and discussios on constitutional themes pertinent to the curriculum content, classroom strategies, and performance assessment.
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| Nebraska |
Nebraska State Bar Foundation Flavel A. Wright Fund for the Study of Constitutional Law. The gift of more than $225,000 has been used to create a permanent endowment that will promote the study of the Bill of Rights by students in grades four through six and the study of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in grades seven through twelve. Scholarships may be awarded to individual students who excel in the study of either or both of these two founding documents of our nation.
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| New York |
Law, Youth and Citizenship Program.The New York Bar Association and the Center for Civic Education provides grants for attending summer institutes.
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| North Carolina |
Fall 2007 Justice Teaching Institute. Costs of attending the session are covered by the Justice Teaching Institute.
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| South Carolina |
South Carolina Awards and Scholarships for Students.
LRE Middle School and High School of the Year: $5000
One middle school and one high school are selected as the Law Related Education (LRE) School of the Year. Winners of the LRE middle school and high school of the year are chosen based on their implementation of LRE curricula and/or programs and commitment to the principles of LRE.
LRE Middle School and High School Teacher of the Year: $1000
Each year, beginning in 2005, one middle school and one high school teacher are selected as the LRE Teacher of the Year chosen on the same criteria for LRE School of the Year.
LRE High School Mock Trail Scholarships: $500
LRE Citizen of the Year: $1000
Each year, a South Carolina citizen who has either been nominated or self-nominated is awarded with LRE Citizen of the Year Award. The recipient of this award will be one who has fostered public understanding of the values of our legal and judicial system; stimulated a deeper sense of individual responsibility by helping students recognize their legal duties and rights; encouraged and supported effective LRE programs; and increased communication among students, educators, and those working in the legal system.
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| Texas |
Hatton W. Sumners Foundation. The purpose of the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation is "to encourage the study, teaching and research into the science and art of self-government, to the end that the American People may understand the fundamental principles of democracy and be guided thereby in shaping governmental policies." To that end, the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation supports programs and activities that will result in an increased understanding by the public of the benefits of individual freedom and civic and personal responsibility, and the corresponding threat to liberty posed by a lack of informed, active participation by citizens at all levels of government.
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| Virginia |
Virginia Law Foundation Grants. From September 1983 to June 1995, the Virginia Law Related Education Center Foundation served as administrator of the Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Program. Although most of the IOLTA funds received during that period were disbursed through the Foundation's grant program, a portion of receipts were set aside in a long-term investment account. As directed by the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Foundation's remaining "IOLTA" funds will be used to support the objectives of legal services to the poor, pro bono activities, improvements in the administration of justice, law related education of the public, summer internships for law students, and the Foundation's administrative expenses. The Board of Directors currently designates 5% of the Foundation's assets to be spent on grants and operations each year. Since 1983, the VLF has provided nearly $21 million in grant funds to projects that serve Virginians.
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