Grants & Scholarships
Oct 1st, 2009 by admin
Public Interest Grants
Summer Public Interest Grants
Public Interest Scholarships from PILF are awarded to select Loyola Law School students (1L-2L, 1E-3E) who work for an approved public interest law firm during the summer. Criteria for the award include demonstrated commitment to PILF, public interest participation, and other factors. Applications are available to students in late Spring Semester.
Applications are now available. Apply now — deadline is 6pm April 1, 2011.
In 2010, PILF gave out $40,000 in public interest grants.
Public Interest Bar Stipends
A few Loyola Law School students demonstrating strong commitment to public interest law may be awarded the prestigious PILF Bar Stipend, awarded following graduation, to be used in preparation for the California BAR exam.
Applications for 2011 Summer Public Interest Grants and Public Interest Bar Stipends will become available during the spring of 2011.
Ami Silverman ’87 Endowment Fund
The Ami Silverman Endowment PILF Fund, started in 2007, provides summer stipends of up to $1,500 to public interest law students. Sterling Franklin and Larry Franklin, trustees of the Morris S. Smith Foundation, provided a generous donation to start the Fund, in honor of Ami Silverman, ’87, for her work with the the Loyola Law School Alumni Association.
Past Recipients
2008
Cindy Panuco, ’09, was the first student to receive an award from the Fund. Panuco’s work in public interest has included helping domestic violence victims at the Immigration Center for Women and Children, and working on civil rights litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
2010
Elleny Christopoulos, ’12 went to law school to help people. Elleny’s legal experience in public interest includes volunteer work at a women’s legal clinic, work at a children’s rights legal clinic in Buenos Aires, and work for the Cancer Legal Research Center. During the school year she is further involved as the Co-Vice Chair of Loyola’s Public Interest Law Foundation.
Joanna Furmanska, ’12, is dedicated advocating for immigrants’ rights. In the summer after her 1L year, Joanna worked at Neighborhood Legal Services in their immigration unit. Her 2L summer will be spent helping attorneys with their asylum and cancellation of removal cases at Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project.
2011
Min-Kuk Song, ’12, caught the public interest bug when he worked as a mentor and youth advocate in Washington, D.C. immediately after college. Since then, he has assisted underprivileged youth in Vietnam attain living wage jobs, and worked on transportation policy under the Mayor of Los Angeles. In law school, Min-Kuk worked at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, as well as the Children’s Rights Project at Public Counsel assisting Los Angeles foster youth.
Loyola Law School Students should also be aware of SPIEP Funding, which can total as much as $3,500.
The deadline for SPIEP applications was March 14, 2011.
