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Albany Law School: Albany Law School

On going Community Service Programs – Individual students, student groups, faculty and staff initiate a large variety of community service initiatives from Walks Against Domestic Violence to Red Cross blood drives.

Institutionalized group projects include:

Hackett Middle School Tutoring Program: Law students work with school teachers at the local junior high school. Members of the administrative staff, non-clinical faculty, and other students serve as supervisors.

Albany School District Mentoring Program: Law students mentor children attending public schools in the City of Albany under the supervision of the program administrators.

American University: Washington College of Law

Each fall the Public Interest/Public Service Scholars and the Office of Public Interest organize the IMBY (In My Back Yard) public service day. IMBY is a volunteer public service project designed to engage new law students in public service projects in the D.C. community and to provide an opportunity for WCL students, faculty, and staff to give back to the local community. The event is the official kick-off of WCL’s new student orientation with over 150 participants turning out each year to provide critical services to under-served individuals and institutions.

WCL students also organize an annual MLK Day of Service and an Alternative Spring Break program that sends students to domestic or international areas in need of legal and community service assistance.

Appalachian School of Law: Appalachian School of Law

County Mapping Project. Buchanan County is working to create a computerized mapping system showing by GIS coordinates the location of all county roads and all county water, sewer, and natural gas lines. There currently are over 2,000 unmapped parcels of land in the county. Law students are taught to examine and use public land records in order to determine the ownership, location, and description of the unmapped parcels. Students work with the County Treasurer's office, the Commissioner of Revenue's office, and the Clerk of the County Court's deed records and abstracts. Students also may be asked to contact oil and gas companies which own unmapped land to secure plats from private surveys. Students learn to research deeds and abstract property.

The Buchanan County Humane Society. The goals of this program are to initiate an aggressive and active spaying/neutering campaign to reduce the overall number of unwanted animals in the County, to facilitate improvement of the conditions at the County Animal Shelter, to make the Animal Shelter more accessible, to increase the number of shelter animals adopted annually, and to provide vital animal education to the community.

Home repairs and improvements for low-income residents through Buchanan Neighbors United, a grassroots community organization. Work usually is performed between March and November with volunteers who come from other regions of the country and participate in cultural exchange activities during their one- or two-week stay in Grundy.

Assisted Family Crisis Support Services (FCSS). There are two programs: a 24-hour toll free crisis line for information and referral and the HOPE (House Offered to People in Emergency) House, which provides services and emergency shelter to survivors of domestic violence and their children.

Other significant projects include tutoring in the public schools and at the local Teen Center, a youth mentoring program, blood drives, and teaching Junior Achievement classes to elementary and middle school children. Students and faculty may create (and have created) alternative service projects as well.

Arizona State University: Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

There are several ongoing projects - such as "Canned Immunity" food drive (all who donate during the drive have immunity in class), literacy drives, mentoring programs with community groups, and Habitat for Humanity.

Ave Maria: School of Law

Barry University: School of Law

The First Year Pro Bono Project focuses on non-legal community service through various organizations, such as Make A Wish Foundation, Senior Links, Camp Boggy Creek, and the Salvation Army. For the past three years, our annual Pro Bono Day events involved volunteering for Habitat for Humanity.

Baylor University: Baylor University Law School

Community Service is promoted by individual faculty members and by student groups, primarily the Student Bar Association and the Women's Legal Society. Specific institutionalized projects include:

1. Partners in Education: The Law School and the Student Bar Association serve jointly as a Partner to Sul Ross Elementary, an elementary school in a low socio-economic neighborhood. Money is raised for school needs and volunteers to serve as tutors.
2. Annual blood drives
3. Annual Toys for Tots drive
4. Annual food, clothes and fundraising drives for various community organizations such as the Family Abuse Center.

Boston College: Boston College School of Law

PILF Work Weekends

The Inner-city Youth Outreach Tutoring Program: This program provides academic and test preparation assistance to junior high and high school students in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.

Boston University: Boston University School of Law

OnGoing Community Service Programs:

Part of BUSL's first year orientation includes an optional community service day. Students sign up to do a variety of service projects in the Boston area, including Habitat for Humanity; getting an inner city school ready for the start of classes; cleaning up Boston parks; and serving meals at a homeless shelter.

Brigham Young University: J. Reuben Clark Law School

• Women's Law Forum: Annual "Stump the Professor" event raises funds to support the Center for Women and Children in Crisis.

• Phi Alpha Delta: Read Across America Book Drive collects and/or purchases about 100 books. In addition, members read to students in local classrooms. Not

• Sunset View Elementary School Sixth Grade Mentoring Program: Over 70 law students meet each week at the law school with sixth grade students to mentor them and help them with homework.

• Phi Delta Phi: Canned Immunity Project collects food for the Utah Food Bank. Rex E. Lee Run: Law students participate in this race, which raises funds for the American Cancer Society.

• Boy Scout PowWow: Law students serve as merit badge counselors for this annual event, which is held at BYU.

Brooklyn Law School: Brooklyn Law School

California Western: California Western School of Law

Each year many of our student organizations sponsor food and clothing drives, voter education campaigns, and other philanthropic and service projects.

Campbell University: Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

The Campbell Day of Caring is an annual event where classes are rescheduled and over 200 students and faculty members assist in various statewide volunteer programs.

Capital University Law School: Capital University Law School

In its five-year strategic plan, Capital has committed to a goal of 75% participation of students, faculty, and senior staff, respectively, with each participant completing 50 hours of community/public service over a 3 or 4 year period.

Case Western Reserve University: Case Western Reserve University Law School

The Mary Bethune Service Organization is dedicated to enriching the lives of the students at the local Mary Bethune Elementary School. Law students tutor fourth- and sixth-graders, conduct law day classes, organize recreational events, and participate in activities sponsored by the elementary school.

The Big Buddies program allows law students (big buddies) to act as mentors and tutors to elementary and junior high school children (little buddies) in urban Cleveland. The program is sponsored by the Student Bar Association, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland, and the Mary Bethune Elementary School. Each law student who joins the program is paired with a child. Once a week, the little buddies are bused to the law school, where they and their big buddies take part in a group activity for about an hour, then spend time on school work. Group activities are varied and have included kickball, arts and crafts projects, visits to museums, and bowling.

Catholic University of America: Columbus School of Law

OnGoing Community Service Programs:

Shadow Day - Members of the law student group Black Law Student Association are paired with local high school students. The high school students and the law students attend special classes at the law school. The high school students are given the opportunity to ask questions about law school, legal careers, and observe the general law school atmosphere. Both the high school students and law school students have given very positive feedback to this project.

St. Anthony's School Outreach - Law students tutor and mentor grade school students.

Brentwood Community Center/Earth Day Clean-up

Homeless Food Runs

Catholic Charities Christmas Gifts for children and young adults in the Catholic Charities Foster Care and Immigrant Care programs.

BINGO with Seniors

Clothing Drives for various organizations, including the CCNV Shelter in downtown DC.

Project Champ Christmas Party and Easter Party

SBA. A canned food drive to support the Capitol Area Food Bank collected 1363 pounds of food.

Women's Law Caucus. The WLC sponsors a day for local Girls Scouts to visit the law school and attend mock classes and mock trials and learn about careers in law.

Student participation in the annual DC "Help-the-Homeless" walkathon.

Chapman University: Chapman University School of Law

Charleston School of Law: Charleston School of Law

City University of New York: City University of New York Law at Queens College

BLSA: Red Cross Blood Drive

Cleveland State University: Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

The Monthly Group Projects include:

• Habitat for Humanity
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters Project
• Cleveland Food Bank
• Soup Kitchens
• Urban Garden Project

College of William and Mary: Marshall-Wythe School of Law

American Red Cross blood drive

Bone Marrow Drive: The Law School's Bone Marrow Drive Committee, working with the College's Alan Bukzin Memorial Bone Marrow Drive, raises money to cover the cost of tissue typing for new donors that enter the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry. Fundraisers include Ali's Run 5K, the March Madness Free Throw Competition and the Annual Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament. The campus-wide drive is responsible for registering nearly 10,000 of the four million potential donors in the national registry.

Book drive for Head Start

Clothing drive for domestic violence shelter

Halloween party for children

Housing Partnerships: Renovation/refurbishing of homes for low-income residents

Park clean-up

Thanksgiving food drive

Toys for Tots drive

Columbia University: Columbia University School of Law

Community service is led by student groups, in conjunction with the Student Services office and the Center for Public Interest Law. There is a regularized process and funding is given to support this work through departments and student fees. Specific projects include:

• Harlem Tutorial provides academic support for students in Harlem public schools.

• Neighborhood Kids provides a similar program for younger children in Harlem.

• African Law Student Association organized a book drive to send books to law schools in Africa.

• Student Hurricane Network collected thousands of school supplies and book bags from students and New York area law firms to send down to public elementary and high schools throughout the Gulf Coast whose students lost their belongings during the hurricanes.

• Student Hurricane Network organized some community service trips for law students to focus on cleaning up and rebuilding parts of New Orleans that suffered severe structural damage.

• Senate Blood Drives

• Unlearning Stereotypes: Civil Rights and Race Relations Project, in which students team-teach the New York Civil Right's Coalition's Unlearning Stereotypes course at public high schools and junior high schools in New York City in an effort to confront the problems of bias and discrimination before they manifest into acts of violence and hatred.

Cornell: Cornell Law School

The following are projects from 2004-2005 which are representative of projects that take place every year:

Women's Law Coalition: Organized a school supply drive, collecting notebooks, pens, highlighters, markers and other supplies which were then donated to the Counseling for School Success Program, a school for emotionally disturbed elementary through high school students in Ithaca.

Phi Alphi Phi: Organized a law school blood drive.

LAMBDA law students: Distributed free Safer Sex Valentines on February 14 (included condoms).

Cornell Law School Veterans Society and Phi Alpha Delta: Collected donations for care packages that were sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Law School Relay for Life Team: Several law students participated in this 24 hour non-stop walking relay that raised funds for the American Cancer Society.

Creighton University: School of Law

Each year Creighton Law students travel to the Dominican Republic to assist in a community building project.

DePaul University: College of Law

The Community Service Initiative connects students with non-legal volunteer opportunities.

Donate-a-Day Program
Spearheaded by the Student Bar Association (SBA), students are provided with one-time volunteer opportunities that support local non-profit organizations. Each volunteer event – which typically lasts 3 to 4 hours – allows students to gather and get to know one another in a relaxed social setting while providing non-profits with the much-needed labor needed to carry out their visions. The SBA also sponsors food, clothing and book drives.

Service Immersion Projects
To promote an understanding of the local and regional challenges that exist outside of Chicago, the College of Law offers a number service immersion trips. The availability of course credit and program location varies each year. Recent programs include a survey of the socio-economic and political climate in Chiapas, Mexico; the Border Project, where students assist for a week at a legal clinic on the U.S-Mexico border; and Hurricane Katrina relief efforts

Chiapas Human Rights Practicum
The Chiapas Human Rights Practicum allows students to travel to Chiapas, Mexico for ten days to meet with the major human rights and indigenous organizations in the community. Students stay primarily in San Cristobal where local human rights lawyers, activists and community leaders teach students about the local legal and political situation. Students will also spend time in the countryside, visiting communities where human rights workers are located. In the past, the group has visited Oventic which is one of the Zapatista centers (caracoles) and the village of Acteal, many of whose inhabitants were massacred by paramilitaries in 1997. Prior to departure, students must participate in a series of pre-trip orientation meetings scheduled for week-day afternoons. Students are eligible to receive one credit hour for the practicum. Spanish-speaking students are eligible for stipends to work the entire summer in a human rights office.

The Border Project The Spring Break Border Project provides law students with the opportunity to represent detained immigrants in their removal proceedings in Harlingen, Texas, over spring break. Students work closely with the faculty from the DePaul Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic and the staff of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR) to represent clients in their immigration cases. Students stay at La Posada Providencia, a shelter for immigrants from all over the world that are seeking asylum or other legal remedies in the United States. Applications are accepted at the beginning of the spring semester, and selected students are required to participate in two orientation meetings prior to departure.

New Orleans Service Trip In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, DePaul law students have lent their support to the victims of the Hurricane. A group of committed students spent a week during December of 2005 in New Orleans, engaging in physical labor to help clean-up neighborhoods and homes and attending meetings on plans to rebuild the community. Students witnessed first-hand the devastation of the Hurricane. DePaul students continue to be involved in the rebuilding efforts by making this an annual service trip and by participating in a student-run hurricane relief effort.

Drake University: Drake University School of Law

The Christian Legal Society sponsors various community service activities, including a mitten tree in December and serving meals at a local homeless shelter.

The Public Service Scholars, SBA, and the NAACP annually host the Halloween Hoops Shoot Out Party for between 200 - 275 inner city children.

Drexel University: College of Law

Community Service is encouraged, but does not qualify towards the 50 hour pro bono service requirement.

Duke University: Duke University School of Law

The Duke Bar Association Community Service Board provides numerous service opportunities for students at Duke Law School. Through facilitation of individual service projects and planning of group community service events, the Service Board encourages students to give back to the local community in Durham, N.C.

One of its main activities is Dedicated to Durham – This bi-annual project mobilizes students and faculty to do community service projects in the local community during special days arranged during fall orientation and in the spring. Other activities include Faculty Fridays, in which students volunteer with a designated faculty member each week, and Red Cross Blood Drives at the Law School.

Emory University: Emory University School of Law

Service Juris - For this day, Atlanta's legal community teams up for a day of service. Teams from Atlanta law firms, law schools, courts and bar associations join together to accomplish a project, such as beautifying a neighborhood charter school.

The Student Bar Association sponsors annually the collection of holiday gifts for area homeless children.

Black Law Students Association sponsors an annual blood drive in February as part of Black History Month.

Legal Association for Women Students sponsors an annual fundraiser to aid a local rape crisis center and battered women's shelter.

Faulkner University: Thomas Goode Jones School of Law

Each year, the students, faculty, and staff participate in a Public Service Day held at the beginning of the Fall semester. This project focuses on service to the community and fellowship among the law school family. Additionally, each student organization adopts a service project for the year. Upper class students participate in a teen court initiative in which they act as prosecutors or defense counsel for teenaged offenders. Students at all levels participate in a variety of pro bono volunteer partnership opportunities with community groups and legal service providers. Students may also create alternative projects as the law school seeks to expand its community service opportunities.

Florida A&M University: College of Law

Florida Coastal School of Law: Florida Coastal School of Law

Jacksonville Bar's Holiday Adopt-A-Senior Citizen Project

Habitat for Humanity Jacksonville (Habijax)

Christian Legal Society's Canned Food Drive

Women Law Student Association's Dress for Success Project

Florida International University: University College of Law

On-going community service projects include student involvement at multiple agencies in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, including Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., Catholic Charities Legal Services, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Legal Aid of Broward County, Church World Service, Put Something Back, The Self-Help Project of the 11th Circuit Court, the Public Defender’s Office of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Human Services Coalition, and Lawyers for Literacy.

Florida State University: Florida State University College of Law

Fordham University: Fordham University School of Law

Fordham Law Community Service Project (CSP) The CSP gives Fordham Law students the opportunity to volunteer their time and talents at organizations in the New York City community in a non-legal capacity. Programs in which students can gain valuable experience include: teaching and tutoring children and adults; blood drives, clothing drives, food drives and book drives; soup kitchens, homeless shelters, hospitals and nursing homes; organizing annual volunteer fairs at the school to publicize volunteer opportunities.

Habitat for Humanity at Fordham Law School (HFH) When HFH became an official campus chapter of HFH International, HFH left CSP (above) to become an independent student organization in the PIRC. Every year there are at least four weekend trips to work with an HFH affiliate in New York City or the tri-state area and a week-long trip during the spring break. Students perform actual construction work including carpentry, dry-wall installation, painting and roofing, under the supervision of volunteer skilled tradespeople.

Franklin Pierce Law Center: Franklin Pierce Law Center

1. Orientation for all 1L students includes a group Community Service Project.

2. Pierce Law's Social Justice Institute and the Public Interest Coalition (PIC) sponsor the Annual Bruce Friedman Community Service Day, in which law students, faculty and staff participate each year, donating a day of work to local non-profit organizations.

George Mason University: School of Law

George Washington University: George Washington University Law School

Within the Student Bar Association (SBA), a student serves as director of community service projects. Also, the Equal Justice Foundation student chapter historically has engaged in community service projects.

During the Fall orientation session for incoming first-year students, the SBA organizes events through which the new students can perform community service activities. Moreover, the SBA organizes similar events for all interested students throughout the school year, often on Saturdays.

Georgetown University: Georgetown University Law Center

Habitat for Humanity: For the last several years, the Habitat for Humanity student group has organized a spring break Habitat "build" in North Carolina. Other Habitat trips have taken students, faculty and administrators to Ghana, South Korea and South Africa.

Georgetown Outreach: A student group that sponsors various non-legal volunteer projects through the year, including blood drives, neighborhood clean-ups, and tutoring.

Home Court: An annual basketball game between Members of Congress and Georgetown law faculty. Organized by students, Home Court raises money for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.

The DC Family Literacy Project helps incarcerated, homeless, and other low-income families improve teir ability to read with their children. Students also tutor neighborhood children in reading.

The Christian Legal Society organizes weekly volunteering at DC Central Union Mission and runs a project that distributes gift wrapped books to DC elementary schools at Christmas time.

Golden Gate University: School of Law

One of the requirements for students enrolled in the Public Interest Specialization Certificate Program is that they perform 25 hours of community service work to promote the public interest either on campus or in the community. Students who are enrolled in the program are on an emailing list to which the Public Interest Advisor sends information about non-law related and law related community service opportunities.

The Law School has a food drive each December Holiday season, organized by administrators/faculty and students.

Gonzaga University: Gonzaga University School of Law

Mission Possible - During spring break, law students travel to disadvantaged international or national localities to volunteer their service doing a variety of projects.

Hamline University: Hamline University School of Law

Harvard University: Harvard Law School

Springfest Volunteer Day: a day-long opportunity, organized by various student groups, for anyone in the Harvard community to participate in volunteer projects in local communities.

A number of our student groups have annual community service projects such as toy, clothings, and food drives at the holidays.

Hofstra University: Hofstra University School of Law

Several student groups (and individual students) tutor children at the neighboring California Avenue Elementary school.

During October 2005, Professor Barbara Barron organized a mock trial enrichment program for the entire 6th grade in the Elmont School District. About 40 Hofstra Law students (from 1Ls to 3Ls) participated in the 3 week program, for an hour each week. Since the program was an overwhelming success, it was made a permanent, ongoing organization at Hofstra, and there are plans to expand it to other school districts in Nassau County. The elementary school children first learn about the jury process, then practice direct/cross examinations and argument, and then conduct the trial.

Law students are invited to participate in the Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA) Middle School Mentoring Project. Through the project, NCBA members present programs to middle school children. The programs include discussions about what lawyers do and how the justice system works. Twice a month, from late September / early October to May, NCBA mentors go to their designated school / class during the first or second class period. Each session is about 45 minutes long. The NCBA holds an annual luncheon where all the mentoring project volunteers receive certificates.

Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association – APALSA's community service includes volunteering at a soup kitchen.

http://law.hofstra.edu/StudentLife/StudentOrganizations/APALSA/index.html

Black Law Students Association – Hofstra's BLSA's community service programs include sponsoring a voter registration drive; tutoring at a local elementary school; conducting workshops at Hempstead High School with the Institute for Student Achievement; holding clothing and food drives; participating in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk.

http://law.hofstra.edu/StudentLife/StudentOrganizations/BLSA/index.html

Latin American Law Students Association – LALSA's community service includes tutoring children at a local elementary school; assisting Spanish-speaking people with filling out forms at local courthouses; reading books in Spanish to Spanish-speaking children at a local hospital.

http://law.hofstra.edu/StudentLife/StudentOrganizations/LALSA/index.html

Phi Alpha Delta – Phi Alpha Delta's community service includes organizing a canned food and co-sponsoring two blood drives each year.

http://law.hofstra.edu/StudentLife/StudentOrganizations/PAD/index.html

Howard University: Howard University School of Law

Illinois Institute of Technology: Chicago-Kent College of Law

Community service is encouraged through the Public Interest Resource Center. In addition, at Orientation, first year law students are invited to participate in a community service day during which they participate in community service projects throughout the Chicago community.

Indiana University: Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis

Indiana University: Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington

The Outreach for Legal Literacy is a community service program in which students teach law at local elementary schools. The Tenant Assistance Project (TAP) provides legal help to tenants facing immediate threat of eviction.

Inter American University of Puerto Rico: Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law

John Marshall: Law School – Atlanta

Lewis & Clark College: School of Law

In 2001, the Law School instituted a Community Service Honors Program, a sister program to the Pro Bono Honors Program. The requirements of the program are identical to the Pro Bono Honors Program, except there is no requirement that the work completed be legal in nature. The Public Interest Law Coordinator and the Office of Career Services actively encourage community service work, as well as pro bono legal work.

Liberty University: School of Law

Through a partnership between the Virginia Bar Association and Liberty University School of Law, all students are encouraged to perform at least 35 hours of community or pro bono service, and all faculty and administration are encouraged to perform at least 50 hours of community or pro bono service during a twelve-month time period.

With administrative support from the Center for Career & Professional Development (CCPD) and the Office of Student Affairs, law students donate their time to non-profit organizations such as the Miller Home of Lynchburg (for girls who are not able to live in their own homes) and Daily Bread (for indigent children and adults in Lynchburg). Additionally, along with Liberty University undergraduates, law students are encouraged to accompany the Associate Dean for Career & Professional Development to Guatemala to minister to the needs of the poor during Liberty’s spring break.

Louisiana State University: Paul M. Hebert Law Center

The Public Interest Law Society currently works with the St. Vincent De Paul Soup Kitchen, Habitat for Humanity and Everybody Reads. PILS also helped place students in Hurricane relief projects, including sending students to Bay St. Louis to work with the Student Hurricane Network. The committee plans to send more students to Student Hurricane Network projects in the coming year.

Furthermore, the Student Bar Association sponsors an Angel Tree annually before Christmas, where students, faculty and staff can choose children in need of Christmas gifts. Both the Student Bar Association and the Black Law Student Association sponsor a canned food drive each year.

Loyola Law School: Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Faculty and students work together to create community projects including the donation of cellular phones, programmed to dial 9-1-1 and give them to domestic violence shelters/victims, as well as the food drives which are given twice a year during which time professors give students "passes" if they bring in food to be donated.

Loyola University Chicago: Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Institutionalized community service events include:

Hunger Week - Student groups organize donation drives for various charities.

Unity & Diversity Week - Student groups organize donation drives for various charities and schedule speakers/programs about public service topics.

MLK Celebration Service Event

Public Interest Law Service Auction - fundraiser

Loyola University New Orleans: Loyola University New Orleans School of Law

Student organization leaders arrange group community service activities. Regular projects include: Christmas in October, where students revitalize homes for the elderly; food and clothing projects for the homeless; and Christmas and Thanksgiving donation drives of food, gifts, clothing for indigent people.

Marquette University: Marquette University Law School

Marquette University has an extensive program of Community Service and has been nationally recognized for its commitment to community service and service learning. The Law School maintains a relationship with the Office of Community Service, University Ministry, the Office of Mission and Identity and the Service-Learning program at the University Level. Marquette University has recently become a sponsor of Project Ripple, a volunteer engagement project in the Milwaukee area. Marquette Law School also maintains a relationship with the Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee and encourages its Law students to become involved in community service projects.

Mercer University: School of Law

Michigan State University: College of Law

These are events for the academic year, 2005-2006.

Adopt a Highway, Monthly, Student Bar Association (SBA)

Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA)
They will be selling candy bars and chocolate and all proceeds will go to the Red Cross to benefit the hurricane victims.

The Environmental Law Society, Michigan State Law Review, & Journal of Medicine & Law will be collecting cash donations for the Hurricane Relief efforts of the American Red Cross.

Business Law Society (BLS) Hurricane Katrina Red Cross Fundraiser
The Business Law Society will be selling Mardi Gras beads in the lobby of the law school. Those students that purchase 3 strands of beads or more will be able to pass if participating professors call on them on Wednesday! The beads will be 1 strand for $2 or 3 for $5!All of the proceeds will be onated to the Red Cross to help the many victims of Hurricane Katrina!

The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, will host a bake sale all day Thursday in the lobby. The proceeds and any donations will go to help the companion and farm animals who are affected by hurricane Katrina.

Bring the Music Back: Law School Fundraising Competition for Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Michigan State University-College of Law has been entered in a fundraising competition against law schools from across the country.

Women's Law Caucus is Collecting Dresses for Charity
The Women's Law Caucus will be collecting gently used formal dresses and accessories for participants in the Miss Cass Pageant. This pageant is put on by Cass Community Social Services for developmentally disabled adults. CCSS is a non profit social services organization in Detroit, MI.

The Business Law Society, will be participating in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K walk on October 15. Registration will begin at 7:30am at the Lansing State Capitol and the walk will begin at 9:30am.

The Student Bar Association (SBA) is collecting items for the annual Barrister's Ball Charity Raffle.

The Society for Mental Health Law, will be selling Silver Ribbons in the law school lobby to raise funds.

The International Law Society, will be raising money for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF on Halloween.

Student Bar Association, Harvest Week
All donations and proceeds will be given to Volunteers of America and Cristo Rey Community Center. Help us give back to the community! Can A Professor! Buy a can for $1 in the lobby, or bring in your own. The purpose of this event is to bring a can or dry good to class, and participating professors will give you a pass on a question for that day. The more cans you bring, the more passes you get!

Hispanic Law Society (HLS)
The Adopt-A-Family Program matches needy families with individual and/or corporate sponsors who adopt them for the holidays, providing new clothes, toys, a fruit basket, and even a wonderful Christmas dinner to those who otherwise wouldn't be able to celebrate due to their financial hardships. This year, HLS has adopted two needy families in the Lansing area to provide a memorable Christmas for both the parents and their children.

Mississippi College: Mississippi College School of Law

Community service projects are sponsored by student groups and encouraged by administrators/faculty.

New England School of Law: New England School of Law

New York Law School: New York Law School

BLSA Outreach Program: Each year, the Black Law Students Association invites a group of high school students to the law school for a day of classes and discussion.

Public Service Day: As part of the Orientation program, students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to participate in a community service project. In addition, information is provided regarding on-going volunteer opportunities in the community as well as from organizations which can use volunteers on a more limited basis.

ABA Work A Day: In conjunction with the ABA, the Student Bar Association organizes student participation in a community service program.

Child Literacy Program: Students work with elementary school children to help them develop literacy skills.

New York University: New York University School of Law

Community service is encouraged and promoted throughout the academic year by mass e-mails to all law students. The Office of Student Affairs researches, finds, and promotes various projects and offers at least one each month from September through April of the academic year. Various University-wide projects are also advertised via e-mail and fliers throughout the year. Institutionally, the school holds food, clothing, and toy drives at various times of the year. Also, one month a year the school hosts Campus Harvest throughout the Law School community and collects unpackaged and canned goods for City Harvest.

For a complete list of community service opportunities, see www.law.nyu.edu/depts/studentaffairs/service/index.html.

North Carolina Central: North Carolina Central School of Law

A law school community service project is usually a part of orientation activities. In Fall 2004, law students participated in a Habitat for Humanity home-building project.

Northeastern University: Northeastern University School of Law

The Youth Advocacy Caucus mentors teenagers in state custody at three group homes in the city of Boston. In addition to one-on-one mentoring, the law students provide street law clinics of various kinds and provide speakers and discussions for the teenagers.

Northern Illinois University: Northern Illinois University College of Law

Northwestern University: Northwestern University School of Law

Orientation Day of Service - every orientation, incoming students dedicate a day to community service. Each year, the projects vary but have included volunteering at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Animal Care and Control, Lake Michigan Federation, and YMCA.

Talcott Adopt-A-School Program - throughout the year, students volunteer at our "adopted" school in a weekly reading program, pen pal program and provide other assistance as needed.

Cabrini Green Tutoring Program - each week, students volunteer to mentor and tutor children through the Chicago Youth Programs.

MLK Day Service Celebration - our annual Martin Luther King celebration includes community service projects.

Holy Angels Adopt-A-Class Program – student volunteers teach classes once a month on a wide range of academic topics and also organize field trips at a low-income school on the Southside of Chicago.

Tax Assistance Program - each tax season, students assist low-income clients prepare tax returns.

Alternative Spring Break - for the past two years, over thirty students spent their spring breaks helping with the rebuilding efforts in Louisiana.

Notre Dame: Notre Dame Law School

A. Student Bar Association, Community Service Division's, Annual & Seasonal Programs -

1. Story time with Headstart: law students go into preschool Headstart classrooms one hour per week and read stories to the children
2. Center for the Homeless tutoring program: law students tutor elementary and middle school-aged children.
3. Habitat for Humanity Blitz: law students help other University students build a house for a South Bend community family in need.
4. Kids and Kandy: the SBA sponsors a trick or treating outing for local elementary Catholic school children on law school grounds.
5. Thanksgiving Basket Drive: the SBA packages and delivers Thanksgiving baskets for the Social Justice Forum's annual basket drive.
6. Dinner at Dismas House: law students cook dinner for the residents for Dismas House, a place where university students live with ex-cons and held to re-integrate them into society.

B. Women's Legal Forum Annual Program -

Walk for St. Margaret's House: raise money to improve the lives of women and children and assist in providing their immediate needs.

B. School-wide Events Annual and Seasonal Programs -

1. Habitat for Humanity: every summer faculty, staff, and students assist in building homes for those in need.
2. Christmas in April: faculty, staff and students participate in restoring homes of those in need.
3. Toys for Tots: organized by Military Law Student Association and supported by the faculty and student body.
4. Shelter Shoe Box Drive: organized by Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity and supported by faculty and student body (provides necessary articles to people entering community shelters).
5. Caroling Group: organized by the St. Thomas More Society, faculty, staff and students carol at local nursing and retirement homes during the holiday season.

Nova Southeastern University: Shepard Broad Law Center

Community Service projects are currently left to student groups.

Ohio Northern: Claude W. Pettit College of Law

Ohio State University: Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Each year Moritz student groups perform hundreds of hours of community service in schools, by helping citizens complete tax forms, by raising and donating money to help victims of disasters in the U.S. and abroad, and a variety of other service projects. To see a listing of our numerous and active student groups go to: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/orgs/

Moritz Community Outreach Project

The Moritz Community Outreach Project (MCOP) is a volunteer student organization that strives to better Columbus and vicinity. MCOP works with Habitat for Humanity, Mid-Ohio FoodBank, Adopt-A-Highway, and student tutoring groups with the goal of improving the environment and the lives of people within the Columbus community. The organization welcomes participation from all law students as well as the Moritz faculty and administration staff. With the often overwhelming nature of law school, MCOP hopes to help students maintain a proper perspective while interacting with one-another in a fun and rewarding setting.

Law Students for Equal Opportunity Education help the City of Columbus READ Program to develop reading and writing skills of low income elementary public school students.

Oklahoma City University: Oklahoma City University School of Law

Integris Hospital/Oklahoma City Public Schools Mentoring Project--- Law students are paired with an elementary school student to help with the younger student’s academic and social skills and to provide guidance and role modeling to the student.

Habitat for Humanity---The Public Interest Law Group, Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, and the Corporate Law Association team up to sponsor this community building project.

Various Service Projects---Student organizations sponsor community service projects on a regular basis.

Pepperdine University: Odell McConnell Law Center

Phoenix School of Law:

Regent University: School of Law

Students and faculty encourage one another to engage in community service consistent with the school's mission.

Roger Williams University: Ralph R. Papitto School of Law

During orientation week, there is a community service day, in which new and returning students, faculty, and staff, spend a Saturday doing community service projects in the local area.

Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey School of Law, Camden

Students initiate community service projects and the law school provides support. Annually, BLSA sponsors a tutoring project at a local school; the ABA/LSD chapter sponsors a community service day; LLSA sponsors a Safe Halloween party; the SBA has an Easter Egg Hunt; and APIL has a Habitat for Humanity type project.

Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, Center for Law and Justice (Newark)

Saint Louis University: Saint Louis University School of Law

Community Service projects are promoted by the Dean's Office, Career Services, the Public Interest Law Group and Student Bar Association. Regular projects include:

• Habitat for Humanity

• Stand Down for Homeless Veterans

• Homeward Bound Homeless Services Fair

• Blood Drives

• Angel Tree Christmas Program

• Clothing Drives

• Big Brothers/Big Sisters

Saint Mary’s University of San Antonio: Saint Mary’s University of San Antonio School of Law

Campus Ministry coordinates community service projects.

Saint Thomas University: Saint Thomas University School of Law (FL)

Samford University: Cumberland School of Law

The SBA and other student organizations initiate community service projects. Annual projects include: Habitat for Humanity, a "Homeless Clothing" drive, a "Canned Food" drive and a "Reading Program" for Children's Hospital.

Santa Clara University: Santa Clara University School of Law

Seattle University: Seattle University School of Law

While the Law School does not formally sponsor on-going Community Service programs, student organizations are often very involved in the local community. For more information regarding these organizations and their events, please visit http://www.law.seattleu.edu/studentorganizations/descriptions

Seton Hall University: Seton Hall University School of Law

Two student groups are almost exclusively committed to performing community service. The Student Outreach Society and the Saint Thomas More Society volunteer in local soup kitchens, build urban homes for Habitat for Humanity, run food and clothing drives for shelters, and perform other wonderful services for the local community.

In addition, nearly every student organization engages in community service. For example, the International Law Society raises funds for an international economic development non-profit through creative means such as a bowling night and the Womens' Law Forum runs suit drives for low income women entering new careers.

South Texas College: South Texas College of Law

Assistant Dean Gena Lewis Singleton has as a significant portion of her responsibilities, the development of community service activities and special events. In that capacity she cooperates with business, civic, and other organizations to develop curricula to meet the needs and interests of South Texas College of Law Students and the community. Currently enrolled law students work in these projects, many of which involve outreach to historically under represented segments of the legal profession. A sample of recent community service activities include:

Annual Community Outreach Program – In a collaborative effort with area universities, the Law School hosts two hundred students in a program designed to increase the skills, knowledge and motivation of first and second year college students. The program began in the Spring 1995 and recently has expanded to include High School students as well.

Annual Communities In Schools Houston – Sponsoring a summer Legal Internship Law School Education Day.

Sponsorship of High School Pre-Law Club

Seventh Annual Upward Bound Program – Established in 1965, this program is aimed at ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders who are tutored, counseled, and exposed to different cultural events in preparation for entering college. While at the Law School, these high school students learned test taking strategies for the SAT-ACT, talked with college advisors, learned to apply for financial aid, and worked to hone their writing and oral communication skills. The goal of the program is to assist High School students who are working to become the first in their families to graduate from a four-year college.

In addition to these activities, other collaborative school-sponsored volunteer activities have included:

Partners in Youth Responsibility Volunteer Mediation-Mentor Project – A collaborative project of the Harris County Department of Education and the Law School, together with several non-profit organizations; the purpose of the volunteer mediator-mentor project was to demonstrate how specially trained volunteers from corporate and professional fields can help courts, schools, and youth facilities reduce the incidents of youth violence and other unproductive behavior. In a one-year pilot project, volunteers were taught how to use responsible dispute resolution protocols; they then worked with at-risk youth and their families to communicate more effectively and to resolve their disputes in a peaceful manner. Law school faculty and students served together in teams with members of the community.

“Adopt a Beach” weekend cleaning project or the Habitat for Humanity building weekend illustrates two smaller projects undertaken during the year by various student organizations. Similarly, the South Texas College of Law Student Bar Association hosts the Annual Food Drive, which has consistently placed the Law School the largest single provider to the Houston Food Bank.

Southern Illinois University: Southern Illinois University School of Law

The Student Bar Association and various other student organizations select community service projects each year.

Southern Methodist University: Dedman School of Law

Southwestern University: Southwestern University School of Law

Southwestern has adopted Hoover Elementary School, which is one of the largest elementary schools in the area. The Hoover programs were created and expanded upon by Southwestern students. Southwestern formalized its commitment to assisting Hoover Elementary by becoming a part of the LA Unified School District’s Adopt-A-School Program, but the original ideas and implementation were a result of our students’ motivation to give something back to the community. Southwestern has established many programs serving the school. The Hoover Elementary School Mock Trial Program was established by a Southwestern student who saw a need for Southwestern students to get involved in the community. Hoover Elementary School has students primarily from low-income, transient families, many of whom have limited English proficiency. For many of the children, Hoover Elementary provides their introduction to the U.S., and a new culture, language, educational system, etc.

Southwestern’s Mock Trial Program gives 5th grade students at Hoover Elementary an inside look at the legal system. By offering neighborhood children this opportunity, they are exposed to options in higher education and possible career paths. This is an excellent chance for these students to become aware of the opportunities that await them and to set high goals for themselves. The Hoover Elementary School Mock Trial Program also provides a forum for positive interaction with the U.S. legal and justice systems. This is especially important when there may often be a negative perception of lawyers, police officers, and others involved with the law.

The ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) Program uses children’s stories, such as "The Three Little Pigs" to teach Hoover Elementary students ways to resolve disputes without arguments and violence.

The Holiday Toy and Food Drive-provides food and gifts to underprivileged students/families who are individually selected and may not have the resources to celebrate these holidays. Southwestern has sponsored Holiday parties for the students at Hoover Elementary, both as an entire student body and by individual classes. For the past few years, our Latino Law Students Association has adopted the entire Kindergarten class and provided each student in that class with a gift and class party, complete with Santa Claus. Southwestern has also collected donations from students, faculty, and staff in order to provide complete turkey dinners for Thanksgiving to families who are on limited incomes and would not be able to provide Thanksgiving dinners for themselves.

Through the Hoover Elementary Tutoring Program, Southwestern Law Students are able to volunteer to serve as tutors at Hoover. Southwestern students are able to have individual interaction with young students at all levels in all subjects.

Stanford Law School:

Stetson University: Stetson University College of Law

The Office of Student Life works with faculty, administrators, student groups and the local community to provide a wide range of community service activities. Annual Events include beach and reef cleanups, BLSA Youth Day, Homestead Exemption Program, Fun in the Sun Day, and ABA/LSD Build a Home.

Suffolk University Law School: Suffolk University Law School

National Lawyers Guild – Street Law Clinics (ongoing)

National Women's Law Student Association– Annual Breast Cancer Fundraiser ("Denim Day")

Phi Alpha Delta – Annual Welcome Baby Collection Drive

Phi Delta Phi – Annual Fall & Spring Canned Food Drives

Student Bar Association – Annual Toys for Tots Collection

Syracuse University: College of Law

The Dean works with the Law Student Senate, which runs a community service program. Regular events include: mentoring in public schools; Habitat for Humanity; collection of clothing and gifts at holidays; fundraising for Big Brother/Big Sister; serving meals at Rescue Mission; and raising funds for United Way.

Temple University: James E. Beasley School of Law

at-risk middle school boys and girls, who are identified by school personal as students who would be responsive to mentoring. Activities are conducted in large groups (basketball games, football games) and with individual students.

The Student Bar Association funds students' non-law related community service projects, including:

• American Red Cross Blood Drives
• Winter Coat Drives
• Operation Santa Claus - sponsor neighborhood children with gifts of new books, articles of clothing, toys, and a holiday party.
• Eyes for Easter - collect unwanted eyeglasses for the Philadelphia Lion's Club
• Women's Hope - collect personal hygiene products and candy for a Philadelphia Battered women's shelter.
• Sweet Tooth Drive - collect Easter candy and dental products for a soup kitchen and homeless shelter.
• Philadelphia Reads - literacy training and reading with children.
• The Jewish Relief Agency project - distributing food to low-income families, playing with kids at homeless shelters, and making sandwiches for homeless shelters.

Texas Southern University: Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Texas Tech University School of Law: Texas Tech University School of Law

Community service is left to the student groups. Most student groups plan community service activities throughout the year. For more than 15 years, students at the law school have volunteered to staff the pro bono clinics operating through the Equal Justice Volunteer Program of Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas (formerly Private Attorney Involvement Program of West Texas Legal Services). Students conduct the intake interviews at pro bono clinics and also regularly assist the volunteer lawyers on cases that arise out of the clinics.

There are numerous other volunteer service activities performed by student organizations and individual students. Students regularly volunteer for no money or credit at the offices of Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas and Legal Aid Society of Lubbock. Many students are CASA volunteers; several of VITA (volunteer income tax assistance) volunteers; many others volunteer at Women’s Protective Services, Rape Crisis Center, Contact Lubbock, Inc. Organizations such as Hispanic Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, Women in Law, Christian Legal Society, and the legal fraternities regularly do volunteer service projects.

Texas Wesleyan University: Texas Wesleyan University School of Law

Canned (fall) and Teddy Bear Immunity (spring) - The Canned Immunity and Teddy Bear Immunity projects, organized by our local chapter of Phi Delta Phi, enables the law school to donate canned goods to the needy and to place teddy bears into the hands of the Fort Worth Police Officers' Association, which, in turn, use the teddy bears to calm small children who have witnessed or been involved in violent crime. In both programs, students bring cans or teddy bears to class and, if called on, buy a pass by contributing cans or teddy bears.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law: Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Student groups take the lead on community service projects. Annual projects include blood, toy and food drives and beach clean-up.

Thomas M. Cooley Law School: Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Cooley students, faculty, and staff engage in a wide variety of community service activities many of which have been identified in other categories. All three Cooley locations Lansing, Rochester, and Grand Rapids participate in Salvation Army or Goodwill Adopt-a-Family programs especially during each holiday season.

Touro College: Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

ACLU student chapter staffs a hotline and does research for the Suffolk Chapter of ACLU.

Tulane University: Tulane University School of Law

Student groups spearhead community service projects. SCHOOLMATES is an organization made up of volunteer law students who tutor elementary, junior and high school students. Annually, students select a house each year as a Habitat project, conduct food drives and gift drives for disadvantaged children during the holidays, and hold goods drives for the battered women's shelter and the local animal shelter.

University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY: School of Law

Annual community service activities include: a minority high school law experience day hosted by the Black Law Students Association and the Admissions Office; the Bar Association of Erie County's "Have-a-Heart" food drive; and collections for community agencies such as Haven House (battered women's shelter for which toiletries and toys were collected).

University of Akron: C. Blake McDowell Law Center

Student groups work with faculty advisors and others to organize and coordinate community service activities. Faculty take active roles in projects such as Habitat for Humanity, tutoring, and food, clothing, and toy drives, but students are primarily responsible for the projects.

University of Alabama: University of Alabama School of Law

Soup Bowl, Work-A-Day, Tutoring Project, Habitat for Humanity and the Alabama/Auburn Fight Against Hunger

University of Arizona: James E. Rogers College of Law

Our student/faculty Community Service Board promotes community service in a number of ways. (1) It coordinates monthly community service projects, which have included helping low-income families build homes through United Housing; volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House; organizing a team for AIDSWalk; helping Native Seed Search on their farm south of Tucson; and organizing activities for children at a local hospital. Activities are held on Saturday mornings, and faculty/staff/students participate. (2) It advises students and student organizations who want to get involved in community service work, by providing information, recommendations, and contacts. (3) It maintains paper and on-line resources about community service opportunities for law students. (4) It presents community service awards each spring. Law Students also participate in Lawyers for Literacy, in conjunction with the Pima County Young Lawyers Division. They tutor local elementary school children once per week during the school year.

University of California at Davis: University of California at Davis School of Law

University of California, Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall)

University of California-Hastings: University of California-Hastings

University of California-Los Angeles: University of California-Los Angeles

University of Chicago: University of Chicago Law School

Neighbors is the Law School's primary community service organization. Each year, approximately 100 law students spend two hours a week volunteering in the local community. These service programs include one-on-one tutoring at local elementary and high schools, career mentoring for teen-adults, participating at a soup kitchen, and visiting the elderly at the local YWCA center. In addition, Neighbors also conducts quarterly service drives, including a canned-food drive in the fall, a blood drive in the winter, and a clothing drive in the spring. Overall, Neighbors is a key way that University of Chicago law students can become involved in the local community. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Life/neighbors.html

Street Law is an outreach volunteer program to community high schools. Groups of approximately four or five students visit eleventh and twelfth grade classrooms once per week for fifty minutes. During each visit, the law students teach the class fundamental legal concepts and engage in policy discussion. Some classes break into small groups to encourage interaction and the free flow of ideas among high school and law students. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Life/streetlaw.html

Other Student Groups: Many other student groups engage in community service projects throughout the year. For example, the University of Chicago Black Law Students Association has invited area high school students for an introduction to law school and held a clothing drive, and the Law Women’s Caucus initiated a toiletries drive, encouraging students traveling for interviews to donate unused hotel toiletries, which will be distributed to local shelters.

University of Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati College of Law

The Student Bar Association participates in a mentoring project for at-risk junior and senior high school students sponsored by the Young Lawyers Division of the Cincinnati Bar Association.

University of Colorado: School of Law

Annually, individual law students and student groups participate in ongoing community service projects. For example, the Public Interest Law Students Association (PISA) coordinates volunteer activities for law students at local soup kitchens, blood drives, Boulder SafeHouse, Children's Hospital of Denver, and Habitat for Humanity. PISA also sponsors the Annual Chili Cookoff to raise money for community service projects. The Latino Law Students Association coordinates and sponsors citizenship drives where the students have traveled to communities to help immigrants in filling out citizenship paperwork. The Environmental Law Society organizes clean-up activities in and around Boulder. The School also hosts a Casino Night once a year where student groups raise money for charitable organizations. The Student Bar Association also sponsors an annual Bowling Tournament in which it raises funds for a charitable origanization, most recently the Tsunami Relief Fund.

University of Connecticut: University of Connecticut School of Law

In addition to its other work, PILG manages and promotes its own community service projects.

University of Dayton: University of Dayton School of Law

Community service is promoted by the Campus Ministry and by numerous student organizations.

University of Denver: Sturm College of Law

Students organize an annual volunteer day (The DULaw Partnership with Community Day (DPCD)) as part of the new student orientation that partners both incoming law students and continuing law students with community organizations for an entire day of volunteer work. Past DPCD placements have included working with the Special Olympics, gardening and repairing trails at the Chatfield Reservoir, and working with Habitat for Humanity.

University of Florida: Fredric G. Levin College of Law

Community service is primarily encouraged and promoted through student groups, although faculty members have organized projects in the past. Examples include the collection of toiletries for the local homeless shelter or abused women's shelter; volunteering to serve meals at the homeless shelter, volunteering with the homeless van that provides outreach services to homeless individuals in the woods, parks and alleys; and serving breakfast to the homeless on the downtown plaza.

University of Hawaii: William S. Richardson School of Law

Community Service Projects, events and opportunities are advertised through the law school weekly electronic newsletter as well as individual e-mails, brochures, etc. Regular activities include:

• Aloha United Way
• Environmental Projects
• Native Hawaiian Issues
• Campus/Community Clean-Up Projects
• Food Drives
• Blood Drives

University of Houston: University of Houston Law Center

Community Service takes many shapes at the University of Houston Law Center. A few of these are:

Professor Richard Alderman runs The People’s Law School, a free, biannual event, designed to reach out to laypersons in the community. Houston-area judges, attorneys, and professors volunteer their time to teach classes to enrollees. Many students volunteer their time to assist with this event.

The UHLC Public Interest Law Organization has service projects every year, such as clothing drives, feeding the homeless and working with Habitat for Humanity.

The UHLC Student Bar Association provides law school tutors for disadvantaged children in our surrounding community through Aspiring Youth of Houston.

The Black Law Student’s Association holds an annual blood drive.

The UHLC Houston Association Houston Association of Counsel for Children hosts and annual baby shower to collect diapers, formula, and clothing for Houston children in need.

When Hurricane Katrina hit in September, 2005, our student organizations staffed a joint hurricane relief effort raising funds, collecting clothing, manning relief stations and serving food to those who evacuated to Houston after hurricane Katrina. Several students, faculty and staff opened their homes or offices to host members of the Loyola New Orleans community during their time in Houston.

University of Idaho: College of Law

In order to receive funding from the Student Bar Association, groups must do two community service projects per year. The following are examples of community service projects that are done annually:

LSADR (Law Students for Alternative Dispute Resolution) has a relationship with Health and Welfare to find community service projects to benefit their community. Last year, LSADR helped provide new and used backpacks and other school supplies to foster children.

Women's Law Caucus sponsors two blood drives per year, does a donations drive for Alternatives to Violence on the Palouse (an organization that helps battered women), campaigns to raise awareness among law students of the problems of violence against women, and does an "Awareness Bake Sale" that highlights problems with sexism, racism, and other arbitrary distinctions/discriminations that many people are forced to bear the brunt of every day.

Health Law has participated in community service projects through Gritman Medical Center, the local hospital. They also distribute health pamphlets relating to stress, proper nutrition, and staying fit.

The Christian Law Society sends three or four members to the annual 4-H Know Your Government conference where they teach 4-H'ers the ins and outs of the Judicial Branch of government. The conference concludes with a mock trial with which the members assist. CLS also assists the local elderly in the fall with lawn care.

The Hunting and Fishing Association donates processed wild game to the Idaho Food Bank in Lewiston, Idaho.

University of Illinois: University of Illinois College of Law

Students participate in a wide variety of community service in the Champaign-Urbana area on both individual and organizational levels. Law students tutor at local schools, assist in preparing tax returns for low-income people, give time at a battered women's shelter, and coordinate an Angel Tree during the holiday season for the benefit of children whose parent(s) are incarcerated.

University of Iowa: University of Iowa College of Law

The Public Service Program provides students and student organizations with a wide variety of pro bono and community volunteering opportunities.

During orientation week, all first year law students spend one afternoon volunteering in the community at locations determined by the college. Additionally, the college provides special volunteer opportunities on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

A variety of law student groups within the College regularly perform community service, including:

• The Iowa Campaign for Human Rights – Justice for Our Neighbors clinics and “Know Your Rights” presentations.

• Phi Alpha Delta – Habitat for Humanity, homeless shelter, school tutoring, bake sales for various local charities.

Most other law student organizations perform at least one community service activity or raise money for charities each semester.

University of Kansas: School of Law

Many of our student organizations are involved in community service projects. BLSA(Black Law Students Association) annually sponsors a Thanksgiving food drive. The Non-Traditional Students in Law sponsor an annual clothing drive to collect business attire clothing for low-income persons wanting to get back into the workforce. The International Law Society hosts an annual wine tasting to raise funds for various worthy causes, including (more recently) refugee relief in the Darfur Region of Sudan and for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Women in Law sponsors an annual Pub Night event to raise money for local women's charities.

University of Kentucky: College of Law

University of La Verne: College of Law

University of Louisville: Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Non-law related community service activities are primarily promoted by the Student Bar Association.

University of Maine: University of Maine School of Law

The law school's Environmental Law Society administers a number of projects, including an ongoing recycling program at the law school and an annual Earth Day 5K Run, which raises funds for various environmental causes.

University of Maryland: University of Maryland School of Law

Leadership in Public Service Newsletter & Student Organizations for highlights of community service projects

University of Memphis: Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

University of Miami: University of Miami School of Law

Community outreach projects are made available through HOPE and include projects reading to children and helping the homeless, senior citizens, infants, and mothers infected with HIV/AIDS. We host Blood Drives, monthly Habitat days, and join community efforts such as walk-a-thons, days of service on behalf of the United Way. HOPE joins the United Way for Hands on Miami Days and partners with the local bar associations for Service Juris Day, bringing lawyers, students, staff and faculty together for a day of service. The University of Miami School of Law has a close relationship with an area legal affairs magnet school and offer mock trial coaching and additional support. Each year, HOPE sponsors days of service which send scores of volunteers to various agencies/sites for service projects. Other projects featured on an ongoing basis include: Community Partnership for the Homeless - outreach, support, themed parties, supplies, clothing/supply drives. 'Canes Angels - Over five hundred holiday gifts of clothing and toys are provided to area children in need. Children reside in shelters, low-income communities or are patients at hospitals. 'Canes Carnival - Twice a year, children from shelters and after-school programs are invited to the School of Law to enjoy an afternoon of fun and games. Community agencies, such as the fire/rescue/police participate in the day of fun for children. Domestic Violence Outreach and Advocacy - HOPE collects donations, on an on-going basis, for victims of domestic violence. In addition, student volunteers lend their time to various shelters and agencies. Camillus House - Annual food drive project provides hundreds of meals for those in need in South Florida. Good Hope Equestrian - Students provide assistance to developmentally disabled individuals who use riding as a form of therapy. Each year, student project leaders add more service initiatives. In addition, we are dedicated to building service and support programs in conjunction with our clinical programs so as to best meet the needs of the clients.

University of Michigan: University of Michigan Law School

Michigan Law School was the first law school in the nation to incorporate community service into its orientation. Each year, the orientation program includes an organized day of community service—Service Day-- for incoming students, staff and faculty. Service Day is followed by a barbecue dinner for all participants.

Community service doesn’t begin and end with Service Day, however. In a community as vibrant as Michigan Law School, it’s difficult to go a week without seeing posters encouraging law students, faculty and staff to participate in a blood, food, used cell phone, toy, clothes or other fundraising drives for various community organizations.

The University also has community service projects organized through the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning (http://www.umich.edu/~mserve/).

University of Minnesota: University of Minnesota Law School

University of Mississippi: School of Law

University of Missouri: Kansas City School of Law

Community Service projects are promoted by the Director of Student Affairs, Career Services, faculty members and the Public Interest Law Association. Projects include:

• Christmas in October
• Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
• Election Day Poll Workers
• CASA Carnival Fundraiser
• Habitat for Humanity
• Association of Women Law Students raises money for cancer

University of Montana: University of Montana School of Law

OnGoing Community Service Programs:

The Women's Law Caucus volunteers at a local shelter.

University of Nebraska: University of Nebraska College of Law

Student organizations sponsor several long-standing, annual community service projects: blood drives, winter clothing for needy children, food bank contributions, donations to rape/spouse abuse center, and participation in the adopt-a-highway program.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas: William S. Boyd School of Law

Student organizations who receive funding must plan and participate in at least one philanthropic event per year off campus. Activities include donations for the homeless, removing graffiti from a community, etc. The organization must complete 20 hours of service outside of the physical vicinity of the law school. The service hours are calculated by adding the number of hours worked by each organization member.

University of New Mexico: University of New Mexico School of Law

University of North Carolina: University of North Carolina School of Law

One evening per month a group of students work in a local homeless shelter cooking and serving dinner.

Food Drive

Cell Phone Drives for domestic violence survivors

University of Oklahoma: College of Law

The University of Oklahoma College of Law has a twice-yearly blood drive. There is also an annual Thanksgiving canned food drive. Every year, students from the University of Oklahoma College of Law participate in The Big Event, a university campus-wide event that sends students throughout the community to spend a day doing various types of community service--painting, yard work, picking up trash, etc.

University of Oregon: University of Oregon School of Law

The Women’s Law Forum coordinates an annual clothing drive for women in shelter care.

Phi Alpha Delta, the service fraternity, sponsors a number of service projects throughout the year. These projects include two blood drives and a food drive, as well as encouraging students to get involved in local Teen Court and SMART reading programs.

Beginning in 2004, the Public Interest/Public Service Program (PIPs) began coordinating a Saturday Public Service Day, engaging law students and faculty to visit various non-profit organizations to undertake service projects. PIPS has also begun coordinating an annual food drive, assembling multiple food baskets from many student groups, for low income families in the Eugene community.

The Minority Law Students Association sponsors a mentoring program, in which MLSA members mentor low income or at-risk students in local elementary schools.

University of Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Law School

The Dean of Students and Public Service Program inform students about community service opportunities on a regular basis.

University of Pittsburgh: School of Law

The Pro Bono/Volunteer Fair also includes representatives from non-legal organizations. In addition, volunteer opportunities are emailed to students from both the Career Services Office and the Associate Dean of Student Affairs.

University of Puerto Rico: School of Law

University of Saint Thomas: School of Law (MN)

The student-run Public Service Board works independently and with student organizations to infuse the law school culture with a commitment to public service by developing non-legal public service opportunities for students, including a Public Service Day each semester in which faculty, staff and students all are encouraged to participate. In addition, over the last year, the Public Service Board has developed relationships with a number of organizations with whom the law school now sponsors regular service projects. These include Habitat for Humanity and Feed My Starving Children. Moving ahead, the Public Service Board expects to develop a regular after-school mentoring program with at least one inner city school. Finally, the Public Service Board is planning on sponsoring at least one annual service trip to Central America.

University of San Diego: University of San Diego School of Law

Mentoring- This program pairs an elementary school with law students. USD volunteers serve as role models for these students. By developing a relationship, the volunteers provide guidance and encouragement to seek higher goals.

Beach Clean-up - Students participate one semester in an area beach clean-up process.

University of San Francisco: University of San Francisco School of Law

Through Law in Motion Service Program (above).

University of South Carolina: University of South Carolina School of Law

The Pro Bono Program promotes and conducts a number of community service projects. These projects include: tutoring at a local elementary school, twice annual food drives, collection of personal care products for local shelters, Halloween Carnival for local area at risk children, and Thanksgiving Dinner at a transitional housing complex for homeless families.

University of South Dakota: University of South Dakota School of Law

University of Southern California: University of Southern California Gould School of Law

The Community Service Committee is a student group that coordinates community service projects and events at the law school and in the community throughout the academic year, including the orienation community service event.

University of Tennessee: University of Tennessee College of Law

Many non-law related community service events recur annually.

University of Texas at Austin: University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Entering students participate in the First Year Initiative for Public Service, sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Office of Student Life. An orientation speaker introduces students to pro bono and public service as expected parts of every lawyer's career. Students then attend special classes on increasing access to justice, with presentations by a professor, a judge, a private attorney and a public interest attorney. Each of the eight student "societies" participates in a community service project each semester.

University of the District of Columbia: David A. Clarke School of Law

In addition to the pro bono legal service work the faculty supervises in the community service and clinical programs, the David A. Clarke School of Law faculty are required to report annually to the Faculty Evaluation, Retention, and Tenure Committee on service to the community. The standard articulated for this service states, "A faculty member is expected to contribute publicly and professionally to the legal profession and the community.... These activities should include pro bono representation, amicus brief preparation, or other uncompensated service in connection with a bar association or other professional, governmental, or community organization over and above a faculty member's regular legal work in the clinic." Selected examples include work on a petition for a writ of certiorari for a defendant sentenced to death, participation in the D.C. Bar's pro bono program for veteran's claims for service-connected disabilities, case work through Legal Counsel for the Elderly for senior citizens, representation of a federal inmate in a First Amendment challenge, mentoring attorneys and paralegals in law firms who provide legal representation through the D.C. Bar pro bono clinic in social security disability and landlord/tenant matters, and filing amicus curiae briefs advocating the rights of persons with disabilities in three ADA cases before the Supreme Court.

University of Tulsa: College of Law

OnGoing Community Service Programs

University of Utah: University of Utah College of Law

Students, faculty, and staff participate in a community service project each year in conjunction with the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center at the University. Past projects have included performing maintenance work at the Pacific Heights and Pacific Avenues public housing sites, the Jackson Elementary School and the New Hope Refugee Center.

Additionally, the Pro Bono Initiative offers students and legal professionals free semester-length Spanish classes. The Spanish for Lawyers program includes both beginning and advanced classes that addresses the varied abilities and needs of those attending.

University of Virginia: University of Virginia School of Law

University of Washington: University of Washington School of Law

Law Outreach – The vehicle through which students participate in non-law related community service projects.

University of Wisconsin: Law School

Community Service Day. All incoming students participate in day-long community service activities in the Madison community as part of the fall orientation program. The Assistant Dean for Students works with the Student Bar Association (SBA) to locate the community sites and coordinate student service.

During the academic year, the same dean works with the SBA and a number of other student organizations that perform community service. The range of community service activities includes: mentoring and tutoring of middle and high school students, presentation for K-12 schools, food drives, and on-site help for activities of non-profit organizations such as daycare centers.

Valparaiso University: Valpa