Legal Aid Advocates Fellowship program.(How Legal Assistance Grantees Have Helped This Year)

Since 1999, the Foundation and its Florida funding partners have provided matching funds for 32 Florida Fellows. Fellows have designed and led legal assistance projects in affordable housing, welfare to work, domestic violence, special education for disabled children, homelessness, immigration, prisoner rights, environmental practice, and family preservation. These two-year public interest Fellowships are sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Equal Justice Works with funds provided by the Open Society Institute. The Fellows are hosted by Foundation-funded legal assistance …