Cavalier with the Cash! Over $375,000 in Public Interest Summer Grants at UVA Law
The PSLawNet blog financed his summer public interest internships by relying on an $8/hour Federal Work Study award. And eating a lot of peanut butter. For lunch and dinner. Sometimes breakfast. So we’re generally happy, but also a little jealous, to learn about the recent summer grant awards that UVA Law’s Public Interest Law Association has bestowed on 1Ls and 2Ls. They won’t be rich by law-firm summer associate standards, but they will make ends meet this summer.
Public Interest Law Association (PILA) has awarded over $377,500 in the form of eighty-one fellowships to law students who will work in public interest positions during the summer of 2011. This year’s distribution included forty-four 1L and thirty-seven 2L summer grants.First-year students receive $3,500 and second-year students receive $6,000 to supplement the costs of taking a public interest position.
Good stuff, PILA! The organization is able to raise this kind of cash through a diverse array of funding sources (which is a wise set-up):
Fellowships are funded through the Law School Foundation, the Dean’s Office, the Law & Public Service Program, and student, faculty and community sponsors. This year, PILA’s own fundraising events netted $88,000 — an increase from the $82,000 raised in the 2009-10 calendar year.
