Summer Grant Opportunities

Let's be honest.  Public interest jobs are often some of the lowest paying in the legal profession.  The long hours, high stress, and lack of resources are often not compensated with high pay. UBSPI, understanding the financial challenges that students interested in public interest law face, provides funding to UB law students to intern during the summer at public interest organizations that otherwise could not afford to compensate them for their work.    

This past summer, UBSPI funded law 11 students to work at public interest organizations in Baltimore City and throughout Maryland.  Financial support for these grants comes from UBSPI's Annual Goods and Service Auction held each February, generous matching donations from the University of Baltimore School of Law, and grants from the Maryland Legal Services Corporation (MLSC).

Throughout the year, Out in the Streets will feature the stories and experiences of the student grantees who interned in places such as the Public Defender's Office, the Homeless Person's Representation Project, and the House of Ruth Domestic Violence Legal Service Clinic.

Are you interested in becoming a public interest grantee next summer?  Stay tuned to the blog and look out for annoucements at school for UBSPI Summer Grant Information Sessions.  Grant applications will be made available in February 2011.  For more information, please contact us at ubspi@ubalt.edu.

*UPDATE* Click here to download the 2011 application, due March 25, 2011.  (You must be a member of the UBSPI TWEN page).