Grant Database

Low Income Legal Services Clinic – Funding will be provided for ongoing pro bono legal services to the low income elderly, disabled, and general population in Miami Beach.

Civics Education: Promoting An Independent Judiciary – Funding will be provided for the Ninth Judicial Circuit to demonstrate to students how their judicial independence relates to imposing sentencing on those convicted of DUI in their respective courtrooms.

Mediation Week: Poster Contest and Mediation Video – Funding will provided to support a poster contest about the process of mediation and also include supporting a DVD to include information about the Small Claims Pre-Filing Mediation Program.

Domestic Violence Restraining Order Project: Project proposes to train a minimum of 15 of its members to provide representation to a minimum of 25 victims of domestic abuse at restraining order hearings in South Palm Beach County.

CARE – Credit Abuse Resistance Education – Student Outreach Program – Funding will provided to promote the CARE program to young adults in the Tampa Bay Area.

Funding will be provided to reconnect the essential re-entry life skills training to promote successful reintegration of our federal felon population to communities in the Tampa Bar area

Rules & Procedures of Small Claims Court – Funding will be used to develop a pamphlet explaining the rules and procedures of Small Claims Court.

College and University Resource Fair project: High school and middle school age students to be exposed to the colleges and universities, particularly the Historically Black Colleges and Universities of Florida.

Florida’s First Black Lawyers: 1869-1979 project: An education and outreach project that commemorates the history of African American lawyers in the state of Florida through the research, writing, and publication of a book in honor of the pioneering African American attorneys during that time period.

Teen Society Block Party project: To reach at-risk teens in Marion County Florida topromote healthy alternatives to at-risk behavior.

Foreclosure Legal Assistance Project: To provide information and legal advice to homeowners facing foreclosure to empower and enable them to proceed pro se and assert and protect their legal rights and defenses.

Phoenix Rehabilitative Initiative: To facilitate the re-entry, stabilization and professional development of women who have begun the process of changing their lives through the pursuit of education

Pro Bono Outreach Project and Legal Redress Workshop: To provide pro bono legal services to members of the NAACP and underprivileged and elderly citizens of Tampa and provide two Legal Redress Workshops to the Tampa Bay Community legal information on topics including criminal law, employment and housing discrimination, wrongful termination, marital issues and family law issues, and criminal and civil appeals.

HCBA Leadership Institute Project: To provide a year long training for members of the HCBA that want to become leaders of the bar association and also, participate in charitable activities in the community

Pathways in Law project: Specifically targeted at crime prevention involving children from a high-risk area.

Diversity Internship Program: To provide opportunity for first through third year law students of under-represented minority backgrounds, who have an interest in practicing law in Hillsborough County upon graduation, to obtain summer placement in private law firms and governmental/judicial agencies in Hillsborough County legal community.

Living Will and 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.

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 advanced directives and conduct two Community Forums for the African American Community about hot button legal issues such as the rise in foreclosures.

GEBA Mentoring Program: 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.

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.