Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Grants for Legal Nonprofits
Are you a legal nonprofit involved in community education, community organization, legal advocacy, or the provision of direct legal assistance? You may want to visit Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation’s website to find out more about their grants.
The Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation funds law-related projects which involve community education, community organization, legal advocacy, or the provision of direct legal assistance. Your organization may apply for funding in any amount, although we have traditionally provided grants between $2,500 and $10,000. We give priority to projects that integrate legal work with broad-based organizing strategies aimed at fundamental social change and directed toward one or more of the following objectives:
- Representing groups traditionally underrepresented by the legal profession;
- Altering the underlying causes of injustice, poverty, and disenfranchisement;
- Creating a society free from racism, sexism, heterosexism, and economic exploitation and supporting the rights of disabled people, immigrants and refugees, lesbians and gay men, people of color, women, workers, youth and the elderly;
- Promoting public health and environmental quality by working to change the root causes of environmental degradation.
We especially encourage and give greater weight to proposals with which Stanford Law School graduates are involved. Stanford Law School provides separate summer funding for students who wish to work in non-paying public interest or governmental summer jobs. Applicants are encouraged to accept Stanford Law students for summer internships. Additionally, we may ask some grantees whether they would like to visit Stanford Law School to make presentations about their work to students. Please note that such trips will not be mandatory and that all travel expenses will be covered.
