Grant Database

Justice for Girls: Florida’s Juvenile Justice Reform Initiative: To strengthen the outreach and public education efforts of the previously funded two-year project which spearheaded systemic reform in the care and treatment of girls in Florida’s Juvenile Justice System and includes a Florida-based Girls Reform Blueprint Taskforce combined with a Public Information Advocacy Campaign.

Court House Accessibility Project: To provide information and technical assistance consulting services to the Office of the State Courts Administrator’s Courthouse Accessibility Initiative.

Florida Minority Bar Preparation Project: To provide funding to help develop a program that will pay standard Bar review course tuition for minority law school graduates to demonstrate financial need who have registered to take The Florida Bar Examination. The program will be open to first-time test takers who are Florida residents.

On their Own: Second Annual Conference on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: To provide partial support for FIAC to host the second national conference on unaccompanied immigrant children in Miami on May 17-19, 2007.

Advancing the Cause and Administration of Justice: To support a broad range of public education programs and activities to advance the cause and administration of justice.

The Justice Teaching Institute: To provide funds to continue and expand the training of 3,000 teachers plus judges and attorneys as part of the Florida Supreme Court’s Justice Teaching Institute.

Human Rights/Immigration Law Project: As partial support for the establishment a Human Rights Immigration Law Project clinic.

Rethinking the Restoration of Civil Rights in Florida: Third-year funding to identify and minimize barriers to voting and other aspects of citizenship for non-incarcerated citizens with a prior felony conviction(s), through research, public policy advocacy, individual case advocacy, and development of training materials.

To provide general support of the Society’s administrative expenses ($25,000), and matching grant to secure a private donation ($10,000).

Justice by the People Project: To provide funds for Florida activities of a web-based four-lesson curriculum which teaches young people the history, the process and the value of trial by jury.

To identify and free innocent inmates from Florida’s prisons through DNA testing.

Evaluation of the Foster Care Project: The provide partial support of an evaluation by the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago to examine the impact of the legal services provided by Legal Aid’s Foster Children’s Project on achieving permanency for foster children, develop an understanding of the program elements most instrumental to the Foster Care Project’s services in order to replicate the program in other jurisdictions, including other legal aid programs in Florida, and to provide needed documentation of impact of the Foster Children’s Project to potential replication funders.

Criminal Justice and Mental Health Special Project: To provide funds for a project that implements a Special Order of the Florida Supreme Court assigning a Miami-Dade Circuit Judge to act as a Special Advisor to the Supreme Court dealing with mental health issues of criminal defendants. The Project is a collaboration between the Courts and Secretary of the Department of Children and Families.

Modest Means Program: To provide funds to conduct additional marketing and outreach in the community for the Modest Means Project.

Juror Appreciation Billboards: To provide funds to improve the image of jury service by thanking those who have served and raising the awareness of the importance of jury service. The message will appear on approximately 50 billboards throughout Pasco and Pinellas counties

Joint Conference: Access to Appellate Justice Institute

Justice Teaching: To provide funding for a statewide initiative that seeks to pair a legal professional with every school in Florida in order to provide continuous law related education to Florida’s youth.

Reporting on the Courts and the Law: To provide partial support for the journalists, who are new to the court and legal beats, to attend an intensive two-day workshop to educate them on the third branch of government and related legal matters. A Workshop for Journalists

To provide funds to be used to help the committee develop a report for delivery to the Supreme Court.

Matching Funds for Affiliate Public Service Project Awards: To provide matching funds for the 2007 ($15,000) and 2008 ($25,000) Young Lawyers Affiliate Public Service Project Awards.