PILA Auction and Summer Grant Deadlines!

Below is important information on how to support PILA summer grants and deadlines to apply for summer funding!

First, the Public Interest Law Association (PILA) Auction will be held on March 15, 2012 at Scholars! Doors open at 5:30 and Auction starts at 6! There are a record number of donations to bid on such as:

• BarBri Gift Certificates
• Great tourist attractions including Hotel Stays, and Museum Passes!
• Gift Certificates to great bars and restaurants including Sweetwater, Game On!, and Fajitas and Ritas!
• Autographed Red Sox baseball!
• And, most important – Quality Time with Professors:A day of outdoor fun with Professor Sorenson at his home near Mount Monadnock- A walking tour & lunch at Avila with Professor Nyquist- Picnic lunch and walk around Walden Pond with Professor Haynes
• And much more!!
  

There will be free food and drinks and the money raised at the auction will fund the PILA Grant, which is awarded to students working in unpaid public interest internships this summer. Feel free to stop by anytime during the event.

Second, below are important deadlines for opportunities for outside funding for summer public interest work:

• March 16 is the dead line for the Massachusetts Bar Foundation Legal Intern Fellowship, which will find up to 6 students working to further social justice goals while contributing support to organizations serving the under-represented in MA. Click here for more information.
• March 23rd is the Equal Justice Works Summer Corps program deadline.