sc bar foundation grantees for fiscal year 2015

Purpose: To protect and preserve heirs’ property through legal

services and education in Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston,

Colleton, Dorchester and Georgetown counties.

To connect the low income community

with volunteer lawyers.

Charleston Pro Bono Legal Services

Goal:

Passion: To provide comprehensive legal services to

victims of domestic violence and their children in

Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties.

Charge: To provide direct legal services to the homeless

population through its on-site attorneys.

Mandate: To offer legal services to the low income

community through the skills of retired

volunteer attorneys.

Job: To provide affordable mediation services to Midlands

residents and train volunteer mediators in developing

skills to resolve conflicts in civil and family courts and

educate the community at large.

Purpose: To fight for low income South Carolinians to overcome

social, economic and legal injustice while providing

substantive training and support on poverty law issues for

pro bono, legal services and private attorneys.

Goal: To provide pro bono volunteers to help

South Carolinians with civil legal needs.

Pro Bono Program

Mandate: To serve thousands each year as the only

statewide, full-range civil legal services

provider for low income citizens.

Passion: To offer legal services free of charge to

battered women and their children.

Purpose: To promote civic education through

programs for the state’s youth.

Work: To support placement of law students as

fellows in legal services organizations.

USC School of Law Pro Bono Program

Job: To promote civic education by providing financial

assistance to students who otherwise

would not be able to participate.

Youth In Government Program

Purpose: To award scholarships to SC judges so that

they may increase their capacity to better

serve their communities through training.

Work: To promote Guardian diversity and

support training efforts.

Goal: To explore ways to expand legal services

for low income South Carolinians.

Job: To host legal education clinics, phone banks

and legal lessons seminars to advance the

publics’ understanding of the law.

Ask-A-Lawyer Program

Passion: To connect low income fathers with livable wage jobs

and give training and support to help the fathers

become better dads.

Mandate: To provide mediation services to low income

individuals in family and probate court.