Legal Outreach
Legal Outreach motivates and prepares urban youth to compete at high academic levels by implementing legal educational programs that foster vision, enhance academic skills, and build self-confidence. Held at Columbia Law School, this five week summer program teaches participants about the criminal justice process, connects them to attorneys representing various career paths, organize field trips to various legal institutions, as well as learn trial practice skills in preparation for a mock-trial competition. This kind of exposure allows students to envision themselves in professional law careers.
- Year
- 2024
- Purpose
- The renewed grant will be used to support the 2024 Columbia Summer Law Institute for 24 rising 9th grade New York City students.
- Amount
- $6,000
- Year
- 2023
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will support the Columbia Summer Law Institute for 24 rising 9th grade girls from low-income Manhattan neighborhoods.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2022
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will support the Columbia Summer Law Institute for 20-24 rising 9th-grade girls from low-income Manhattan neighborhoods.
- Amount
- $6,000
- Year
- 2021
- Purpose
- The grant will support the Summer Law Institute at Columbia Law School, supporting the continuation of Legal Outreach’s Summer Law Institute at Columbia Law School.
- Amount
- $6,000
- Year
- 2020
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will continue to support the Columbia Law School Summer Law Institute for low-income rising 9th grade students. If the State and City of New York does not allow public gatherings they are fully prepared to hold the Summer Law Institute online, with law student instructors, utilizing platform combinations of Zoom, Moodle, and Google Classroom.
- Amount
- $4,000
- Year
- 2019
- Purpose
- Enabled Legal Outreach, Inc. (LO) to provide 2 stipends for law student coordinators, fund a day of activities, as well as provide cash stipends and trophies for participants. The grant supported the broader accomplishments of LO, which helped 731 students from under-resourced communities pursue higher-education by using legal and educational programs to develop skills, confidence, and vision. In 2017-18, LO instructed 227 high school students in their four-year College Bound program, retained 99% of the 230 College Bound participants, and helped 100% of 48 seniors gain admission to college.
- Amount
- $6,000