As students begin to look for summer funding for unpaid nonprofit and government work, I wanted to make sure you're aware of Equal Justice Works summer funding for law students.
In the past, EJW has hosted a Summer Corps program for law students. Summer Corps is now called AmeriCorps JD(http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/americorpsjd). A student can apply for AmeriCorps JD funding for work in one of 3 areas:
(1) Veterans Legal Corps
(2) Disaster Legal Corps
(3) Civil Legal Corps
To participate in Veterans or Disaster Legal Corps, the student needs to spend at least 50% of his or her time serving either veterans or victims of a federally recognized disaster. These applications are on a rolling basis.
To participate in Civil Legal Corps, the students work can focus on a variety of legal issues, but will also involve working on a Veterans Toolkit for at least 20% of the student's required 300 hours of service (at least 60 hours). These applications are due April 15th, 2014.
AmeriCorps JD provides a student with a $1,175 Segal AmeriCorps Education Award voucher that can be used to pay current educational expenses or qualified student loans.
FAQs for Law School Professionals are found here - http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/law-school/americorpsjd/faq-lsp.
If you have any questions about AmeriCorps JD or any Equal Justice Works programs, please feel free to reach out to me anytime!
Sincerely,
Amanda Furst
Public Interest Coordinator
Career Center
University of Minnesota Law School
(612) 626-7517
