Is Your Legal Start-Up Strapped for Cash? Yale Law Wants to Help!
The Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale is providing start-up money for projects that protect the legal rights or interests of inadequately represented groups. If you have an innovative project that is having some difficulty getting funded because of the subject matter or approach, this one’s for you:
We fund cutting-edge projects whose successful execution might be a model for other organizations seeking new and better ways to represent clients. Please visit the Initiative website for more information about our grants: http://www.law.yale.edu/stuorgs/initiative.htm.
Qualifications
The most important selection criterion for projects is that they that protect the legal rights or interests of inadequately represented groups. The Initiative generally funds projects on which the applicant will work full time, after graduation from law school. Although a wide variety of projects are selected for funding, the Initiative gives priority to projects that:
- Might provide a model for similar projects around the country;
- Would be performed in coordination with a sponsoring organization;
- Could be completed in a single year, or that demonstrate potential to become self-supporting or to receive support from alternative sources within the year (we will also consider projects that can be completed in less than a year);
- Are submitted by graduates of Yale Law School;
- Would operate in the state of Connecticut.
Priority criteria are not requirements. For example, the Initiative has frequently funded proposals from non-Yale Law students, as well as projects that operate outside the state of Connecticut. Please see our list of Past Grant Recipients.
The Initiative welcomes applications for both domestic and international projects.
The salary is up to $35,000 and the application deadline is March 1st. See the website for more information!