Funding Information for Large Projects

Large Projects

The Law Foundation has established a projects budget of $750,000 for 2012 for one-time projects.

 

 

The Law Foundation encourages applicants and projects that reflect the diversity of British Columbia. The Law Foundation’s working definition of diversity is: Diversity includes age, different abilities, socio-economic level, education, ethnicity, language, family, gender, marital/relationship status, race, religion, work experience, geographic size and location, and sexual orientation.

Who can apply?

A non-profit organization in British Columbia whose proposed time-limited project falls within one or more of the five statutory mandated areas of the Law Foundation: legal aid; legal education; legal research; law reform; and law libraries.

Areas of encouragement:

The Law Foundation is particularly interested in receiving proposals that meet needs in the following areas:

  • Aboriginal Legal Issues (for example:  on reserve, residential schools, child protection);
  • Consumer and Debt Issues (for example: payday loans, bankruptcy and foreclosures);
  • Elder Law (for example: dementia, Alzheimer’s, powers of attorney, trusteeships);
  • Family Law (for example: Family Maintenance Enforcement and Variation, the new Family Law Act);
  • Legal Needs of Remote Geographical Areas;
  • Public Legal Education (for example: applications with a focus on people with literacy issues or on public confidence in the justice system);
  • Technology (for example: projects that utitlize technology in the delivery of legal services and/or public legal education).

The Law Foundation will consider proposals in areas other than those listed above as long as they fall within the program objectives of the Law Foundation.

Grant size:The maximum amount available for each project is $75,000.

Note: If your project is for $15,000 or below, please apply under the Law Foundation’s Small Projects Initiative. For further information, please contact the Law Foundation, see contact information below.

Application process:

There will be a two-stage process: a Letter of Intent stage followed by selected applicants being invited to submit full applications.

Please contact Law Foundation staff at 1-(604) 688-2337 to discuss your project prior to submitting a Letter of Intent form.

To be considered, please submit a Letter of Intent form by 3 pm, Friday, January 13, 2012 by mail, courier, or fax. Please do not e-mail Letter of Intent forms.

Selected applicants will be invited to submit full applications for adjudication at the June 2012 Board of Governors’ meeting.

Please note that the Foundation may require an organization to have audited financial statements or an audit of the project.

STAGE ONE

Letter of Intent form

Letter of Intent forms may be also obtained:

  • by calling us at 1-(604) 688-2337
  • by faxing us at 1-(604) 688-4586
  • by writing us at the Law Foundation of BC, 1340 – 605 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5J3

STAGE TWO (invited applicants only)

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