Grant Database

Contribution to the endowment established at the University of Florida Foundation to support the annual Gerald Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Seminar. Support includes an outright grant of $150,000 plus an additional $100,000 if matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Mock Trial Courtroom: To provide funding for a plan to dedicate an existing classroom to a state-of-the-art courtroom for use by the University of West Florida and area high school mock trial teams, UWF and high school classes and debate teams, criminal justice practitioners, the legal community, are area human service agencies.

Court Care: A Better Place to Be: To provide funds to expand their child-care program into the Miami-Dade Criminal Courts by 2007. The program would serve children brought into the criminal court as victims or witnesses or because their parents or caregivers do not have childcare options.

Juvenile Justice Center’s Trial Skills Training: For partial scholarships of up to 50% of the cost of juvenile public defenders to attend a two-day trial skills training. Program for Florida Juvenile Defenders

Funds would support Brennan Center’s Legal Financial Obligations Project in Florida, including project personnel and overhead expenses proportionate to the project including the continued investigation and reform of the fees and fines policies in the criminal justice system in Florida. Legal Financial Obligations Project

Provision of Basic Needs Items for Serene Harbor Domestic Violence Shelter

The Latest Objection, A Young Lawyer’s Essay Contest

Funds will support direct and indirect costs of developing and disseminating non-partisan, independent, objective, and independent analyses of the November 2008 proposed amendments to the Florida constitution.

Mock Trial high School Competition

Florida Minority Bar Preparation Project: To pay for tuition for the Bar review course of minority law school graduates with demonstrated financial need who have registered to take The Florida Bar examination.

Justice Teaching Institute: Investing in Florida Teachers — A Model Professional Development Program on the Courts and the Judiciary.

Leadership for Justice: To support the development and expansion of model civic and law related education programs in Florida. It will also build upon the organizational and programmatic future of Florida Law Related Education.

To provide funds for a two-year project to strengthen the infrastructure of FPIC; strengthen the roles and responsibilities of the board of directors, board of trustees and members; increase the criminal and juvenile justice members of the organization for local and state advocacy; and create a long-term financial sustainability plan.

Second-Year Funding of Human Rights/Immigration Rights Law Clinic: To support a full-time attorney to provide pro bono legal assistance and advocacy in immigration matters in Florida, including supervision of graduate students in the development of immigration cases and advocacy.

Advancing the Findings and Recommendations of the American Bar Association/Florida Death Penalty Assessment Team Report: To provide funds to support a one-year project intended to address a wide range of issues and problems that undermine the fairness and accuracy of Florida’s death penalty process and thereby improve the administration of justice in Florida by advancing the findings and recommendations of the ABA/Florida Death Penalty Assessment Team report (September 2006).

To create a Florida Strategic Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. The Strategic Plan will involve various levels of federal and state law enforcement, affected state executive branch agencies and nongovernmental agency service providers tasked with serving the needs of Florida trafficking victims

Rethinking Restoration of Civil Rights in Florida: For advocacy to reform of Florida’s system which denies automatic restoration of civil rights for convicted felons upon complete of their sentences and to assist individuals to apply for restoration of their civil rights under Florida’s executive clemency process.

For general support of the Project to identify and free innocent inmates in Florida’s prisons through DNA testing. ($305,000 with $25,000 matching funds)

Afternoon in the Courthouse/DUI Project/Legal Aid Awareness Project

General support