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The Pro Bono Committee is working on finding the 2008 Pro Bono Paralegal of the year and we need your help! All types of “mini” projects are available. If you are interested in helping out, contact Judith Bardsley (bardsley@blankrome.com; 215-569-5349)
Community Legal Services
Community Legal Services is looking for volunteers to help with computer support/software training and file organization on a weekly and/or monthly basis. Their office is located at 1424 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Their website address is: http://www.clsphila.org/. For more information, please contact Carol Horne Penn at Community Legal services: cpenn@clsphila.org; 215-981-3700. Please let her know that you learned about this opportunity on PAP’s website.
Women Against Abuse Legal Center
Women Against Abuse is looking for volunteers to help with computer support, filing and answering telephones during the lunch hour and on a weekly basis. Their office is located at 100 South Broad Street – 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19110. For more information, please contact Molly Callahan at the Women Against Abuse Legal Center: mcallahan@womenagainstabuse.org; 215-686-7082. Please let her know that you learned about this opportunity on PAP’s website.
Volunteers for the Indigent Program
Starting in August/September 2008, VIP is looking for volunteers to help with general administrative work, follow-up telephone calls to clients, preparing status reports and updating databases with new information on at least a weekly basis, during normal business hours. Their office is located at 42 South 15th Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Their website address is: http://www.phillyvip.org/ . For more information, please contact Judith Bardsley at: bardsley@blankrome.com; 215-569-5349.
PILCOP Volunteer Event
Our next volunteer evening with PILCOP is scheduled for Thursday, September 11, 2008 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. (Note time change) PILCOP will provide pizza for dinner. PILCOP's address is: 125 S. Ninth Street, Suite 700, Philadelphia, PA 19107. If you are able to assist, please contact Judith Bardsley (bardsley@blankrome.com; 215-569-5349) by Wednesday, September 10, 2008. We are going to continue to help them with document review. However, other projects are also available.
Can't volunteer in the evenings, but still want to participate? No problem!!! PILCOP is looking for paralegal volunteers to come in on a more regular basis in addition to our volunteer evenings. Jennifer Clarke, PILCOP's executive director said to me in an e-mail that "I think it is fair to say that I would love to have more frequent help at any time on any day. For example, if someone wanted to come regularly, that would be great; but also if they just had a few hours, that would work too." If you are interested in helping fulfill this request for more frequent volunteers, please let Judith Bardsley know.
As you may recall, PILCOP's principal focus is "to secure systematic reforms through impact litigation". They primarily represent "individuals and organizations in Philadelphia and throughout the nation in civil rights cases that will benefit significant numbers of persons." For more information on PILCOP, check out their website: http://www.pilcop.org/
Also, here are the dates for our future 2008/2009 volunteer events with PILCOP:
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Thursday, January 13, 2009
Thursday, March 10, 2009
Thursday, May 12, 2009
Thursday, July 14, 2009
Thursday, September 15, 2009
ACLU Volunteer Event
The next volunteer evening with the ACLU is scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, 2008 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. (Note time change) The ACLU will provide pizza for dinner. We will be helping them with document review again, but there may be other projects available. Please contact Judith Bardsley (bardsley@blankrome.com; 215-569-5349) by Monday, August 11, 2008, if you are interested in participating.
As you may recall, the ACLU "...is the nation's foremost guardian of liberty. [They] are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending and protecting individual rights and personal freedoms. Through advocacy, education and litigation, [their] attorneys, advocates and volunteers work to preserve and promote civil liberties including the freedom of speech, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, and equal treatment under the law. [They] stand in defense of the rights of women and minorities, workers, students, immigrants, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and others who have seen bias and bigotry threaten the rights afforded to all of us in this country by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights <http://www.aclupa.org/home/billofrights.htm> ."
The ACLU's office is in the Bourse building, suite #570 on the 4th street side. The Bourse is 111 South East Independence Mall, between 4th and 5th streets one block south of Market. There is a subway stop at 5th and Market and a parking ramp next to our building on 4th street going south from Market.
For more information check out their website at: http://www.aclupa.org/chapters/greaterphiladelphia/
Also, here are the dates for our future 2008/2009 volunteer events with the ACLU:
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Paralegal Translators
Philadelphia Pro Bono Organizations are in desperate need of individuals who can speak foreign languages. In response, the PAP Pro Bono Committee is putting together a list of paralegals, who can speak a foreign language and are willing to assist pro bono organizations with communicating with their non-English speaking clients.
If you are interested in being put on this list and for additional information, please contact Judith Bardsley at bardsley@blankrome.com or 215-569-5349. |
