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Seton Hall Public Interest Programs
Seton Hall Law Pro Bono Program
http://law.shu.edu/csj/probono_program.html
The far-reaching Pro Bono Program is a not-for-credit educational experience in which many Seton Hall Law students volunteer as a legal professional with an outside non-profit organization. This program offers students an opportunity to gain hands-on legal experience while making a difference in the community.
Seton Hall Law Center for Social Justice
http://law.shu.edu/csj/index.html
Seton Hall University School of Law provides students with
outstanding legal preparation through one of the most
comprehensive clinical and pro bono programs offered by any
metropolitan-area law school. The Center for Social
Justice's for-credit clinical programs and pro bono program
allow students to engage in a legal apprenticeship, representing
real-life clients in cases with real-life outcomes.
New Jersey Organizations
New Jersey Law Network (Public Interest Law)
http://www.njlawnet.com/public.html
The central source for New Jersey Law, since 1996.
Newark Nonprofit Registry
Connecting nonprofits and
community groups with potential supporters, their communities,
and one another.
New Jersey Public Interest Research Group
When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, NJPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and well-being and fight to end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposés, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation. NJPIRG's mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that protects consumers, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government.
New York Organizations
New York Public Interest Research Group
The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is New York State's largest student-directed consumer, environmental and government reform organization. We are a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group established to effect policy reforms while training students and other New Yorkers to be advocates. Since 1973, NYPIRG has played the key role in fighting for more than 120 public interest laws and executive orders .
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
A nonprofit, civil rights law firm that strives for social justice. In partnership with member law firms, corporate law departments and other organizations, NYLPI helps underrepresented people develop legal strategies to serve their vision for themselves and their communities.
National Organizations
Idealist: Action Without Borders
Action Without Borders connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. Action Without Borders is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.
Equal Justice Works
http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/
Equal Justice Works organizes, trains and supports public service-minded law students and is the national leader in creating summer and postgraduate public interest jobs.
National Center for Youth Law
The National Center for Youth Law works to ensure that low-income children have the resources, support, and opportunities they need for a healthy and productive future.
PS Law Net
PSLawNet, NALP's Public Service Law Network Worldwide, is a network of over 170 law schools and more than 11,000 law-related public interest organizations in the U.S. and around the world. Through its online database, PSLawNet provides a comprehensive clearinghouse of public interest organizations and opportunities for lawyers and law students. Users can perform customized searches of public interest opportunities around the world, ranging from short-term volunteer and paid internships to full-time jobs, fellowships and pro bono opportunities. (Contact Career Services for log-in information.)
Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
The Children's Defense Fund's Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start , a Head Start , a Fair Start , a Safe Start , and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF encourages preventive investment before they get sick or into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit organization supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. We have never taken government funds.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:
-Your First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly. Freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state.
-Your right to equal protection under the law - equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
-Your right to due process - fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake.
-Your right to privacy - freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.
Common Cause
Common Cause is a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.
Prison Library Project
http://www.claremontforum.org/prison.html
Do you have old books sitting around taking up space on a bookshelf? Why not send them to the Prison Library Project-a group which provides free reading materials to inmates, prison chaplains and librarians, and study groups; as well as to drug/alcohol recovery groups, survivors of domestic abuse, and support groups for HIV/AIDS patients within the immediate community. Books can be mailed to them using the USPS Media Mail rate.
Regional Law School Public Interest Programs
Rutgers Law-Newark: Student's Guide to Public Interest
http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/public_interest_students_guide.html
Rutgers Business School-Newark: The Center for Non-Profit and Philanthropic Leadership
http://www.npleadership.rutgers.edu/index.html
NYU Law National Center on Philanthropy and the Law
The National Center on Philanthropy and the Law was established at New York University School of Law to explore a broad range of legal issues affecting the nation's nonprofit sector and to provide an integrated examination of the legal doctrines related to the activities of charitable organizations.
The value of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law extends far beyond the NYU community; the Center truly operates for the benefit of the international philanthropic community. Scholars, students, practitioners, and nonprofit organizations worldwide have benefited both directly and indirectly from the resources provided by the Center.
NYU Law Public Interest Law Center
http://www.law.nyu.edu/depts/publicinterest/
Fordham Law Public Interest Resource Center
http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/pirc-2home.ihtml?id=279
The Public Interest Resource Center (PIRC) is the home of dynamic student-initiated, student-run pro bono and community service projects. The PIRC student organizations are involved in a broad range of advocacy, assistance, and education including domestic violence, human rights, unemployment, housing, homelessness, immigration, environmental advocacy, public interest fellowships, support for the Gulf Coast, work with youth, and community service.
CUNY School of Law
http://www.law.cuny.edu/app/index.jsp
CUNY School of Law opened its doors in September, 1983, with a unique mission - to train lawyers for public service and public interest practice, and to recruit and train lawyers from historically underserved communities. Our motto, "Law in the Service of Human Needs," reflects that continuing commitment. The Law School was fully accredited by the American Bar Association Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar in 1993, and has graduated more than 2,000 lawyers who work in legal services organizations, non-for-profits, grass roots organizations, state and city legislatures, the courts and the courtrooms, in firms large and small, and wherever it is necessary to provide access to justice.
Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest
http://www.brooklaw.edu/studentorg/blspi/
Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest was founded in the Fall of 1990 to help meet the legal needs of underrepresented communities and individuals and increase opportunities for Brooklyn Law Students in the field of public interest law. BLSPI seeks to further these goals through a range of activities and events throughout the school year.
