LAWS Summer Job Program 2014
Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) will place students in paid positions with legal aid clinics and public interest organizations that enable students to learn about public interest law and access to justice, observe the legal aid system, and interact directly with community members.
$ 14,952
December 9, 2013
Connecting Communities Consortium: Income Security and Human Rights Legal Training for Aboriginal Elders and Community Workers
The Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre will to train Aboriginal Elders and front-line community workers in Thunder Bay in legal information relating to income security and human rights law.
$ 47,540
December 9, 2013
Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution
To support a needs assessment, general community outreach and specific outreach to Aboriginal communities as part of the start-up of the Winkler Institue for Dispute Resolution, named in honour of retiring Chief Justice of Ontario Warren K. Winkler.
$ 100,000
October 23, 2013
Environmental Law Legacy Project
The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) will increase access to environmental law resources by digitizing a selection of the most important holdings of the Resource Library and CELA and placing them on the web. This project will create a portal to the evolution of environmental law and policy, current laws, law reform campaigns, popular materials like newsletters, and important cases and precedents.
$ 95,000
October 23, 2013
Roy & Ria McMurtry Endowment 2013-14
The University of Windsor Faculty of Law will provide a scholarship to a law student in financial need.
$ 5,000
October 23, 2013
Roy & Ria McMurtry Endowment 2013-14
The Second Chance Scholarship Foundation will provide a post-secondary education scholarship to a youth enrolled in a program relating to legal education, and who is currently, or has been, involved in the criminal justice system or who is at risk of such.
$ 5,000
October 23, 2013
Family Sponsorship and Refugee Law - Community Awareness Project 2013
The Council of Agencies Serving South Asians, in partnership with the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, will train front-line workers, faith leaders and community representatives in the Greater Toronto South Asian Community on the recent changes to the family sponsorship and refugee law.
$ 48,000
October 23, 2013
Connecting Communities Consortium: Secretariat
As Secretariat for the Connecting Communities Consortium, Community Legal Education Ontario will support and facilitate projects recommended by the Consortium, the Training Committee, and the Public Legal Education Learning Exchange.
$ 114,000
October 23, 2013
Connecting Articling Fellowships 2013-2014
The Keewaytinok Native Legal Services (Moosonee, ON) will hire an Articling Student to provide legal information and services to linguistic minorities and residents of rural and remote communities. This Articling position is funded through the Connecting Articling Fellowship program.
$ 14,106
October 23, 2013
Child Protection Parent Education Project Phase 2 - Mi'kmaq Soundtrack
The Child Protection Parent Education Committee will dub the soundtrack of a plain language DVD in Mi'kmaq. The DVD provides legal information to parents involved in child protection proceedings in Nova Scotia.
$ 5,500
October 23, 2013
