DC Bar Foundation Public Funding Listening Sessions
REPORT
2006
In 2006, the DC City Council allocated $3.2 million of the FY2006 budget to support civil legal services to the District's poor and underserved. The Budget Support Act of 2006 provided that the funds would be granted to the DC Bar Foundation to make grants to non-profit legal services organizations for three purposes: to provide legal services in underserved areas and in housing-related matters, and to create a shared legal interpreter bank. The Act also allocated a portion of the funds to support the DC Poverty Lawyer Loan Assistance Repayment Act.
In order to obtain input on the process, structure, and strategies for the new grant programs, the DC Bar Foundation convened a series of listening sessions with stakeholders in the legal services community. These sessions have informed the Foundation's development of the grant programs in question. A summary of the input received at these listening sessions, prepared by Jessica Rosenbaum, is available in .pdf format on this website.
Section II Summary of Listening Sessions
Section II.A Listening Session with Line Attorneys - Increasing Lawyers in Underserved Communities
Section II.B Listening Session on Increasing Lawyers Working on Housing-Related Issues
Section II.C Listening Session with Legal Services Directors
Section II.D Listening Session with Law School Clinical Directors
Section II.E Listening Session on Pro Bono Issues
Section II.F Listening Session on Interpreter Bank Issues