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| Organization Legal Name | Project Title | Grant Amount | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Children, Inc. | “Group Counseling Program” | $15,000 | Group counseling program salaries, for client counseling and client screening. |
| American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education | “South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Project” | $50,000 | |
| American Gateways | “Immigration Pro-Bono Representation Expansion Project (I PREP)” | $5,000 | Increase efforts to recruit, train and support volunteer attorneys to assist with pro bono immigration cases by providing technological and other support services. |
| Blue Bonnett CASA | “Justice for Children” | $935 | To improve volunteer recruitment. |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates for Kids of Austin, Waller and Washington Counties | “Program Expansion” | $10,000 | Hiring a part-time volunteer supervisor to assist the Volunteer Coordinator in supervising the growing number of volunteers. |
| CASA of Central Texas, Inc. | “Court Program Services/Casework Supervisor to train and support community volunteers” | $12,500 | Partially fund salary and benefits for a casework supervisor to train and guide community volunteers. |
| CASA of Tarrant County | “New Caseworker Supervisor Position” | $15,000 | To recruit and hire a casework supervisor due to the increased number of abused and neglected children that are in need of advocacy services. |
| Communities in Schools Houston, Inc. | “Legal Internship Program” | $10,500 | Summer Employment program designed to provide at-risk students with fulfilling positions over their summer break in a variety of Houston area public legal offices, as well as law firms and corporate legal institutions. |
| Criminal District Court No. 7 | “Specialized Veterans Court for Dallas County” | $15,000 | Special court to increase access to mental health and addictions treatment for those veterans with felony and misdemeanor offenses. |
| Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center | “22nd Annual Crimes Against Children Conference” | $10,000 | Crimes Against Children Conference targets law enforcement officers, child protection caseworkers, prosecutors, medical professionals and therapists fighting child abuse on a daily basis. |
| El Paso ISD Delta Academy | “Encouraging and Improving Literacy for El Paso’s Detained Youth” | $12,500 | Create a school library for detained youth. |
| Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates | “Justice by the People” | $5,000 | Support of Constitutional website for middle school teachers and their students, promoted to teachers by word of mouth by ABOTA members in their home states and email promotions. |
| Houston Urban Debate League | “2010 HUDL Summer Workshop” | $12,500 | To expand a weeklong summer program at the University of Houston for students from traditionally underserved communities to teach interscholastic debate. |
| Houston Young Lawyers Association | “Law-Related Education Awareness Programs for Texas Teens” | $14,615 | Programs promoting awareness to middle and high school students on important legal topics potentially impacting their lives and how to have a voice in democracy to help improve their world. |
| Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Inc. | “Women and Children’s Program Attorney” | $10,000 | Partial Salary for Women and Children’s Program Attorney. |
| Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. | “Promoting LGBT Rights Within Texas’ Black Legal Community” | $1,500 | Engage in regionally focused outreach to Texas’ black legal community to better inform them about the unique legal issues impacting their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients. |
| Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center | “Mexican Asylum Representation and Pro Bono Project” | $27,500 | Fund a year-long attorney position to handle the rise in asylum claims, as well as people seeking immigration counseling, due to the flood of refugees fleeing the violence in Northern Mexico, esp. Cuidad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. |
| National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)- Texas | “Criminal Justice Resources Project” | $15,000 | A pilot project to develop comprehensive written resources for families of individuals with mental illness who become involved with the criminal and juvenile justice system. |
| Santa Maria Hostel, Inc. | “Court Liaison Client Services” | $12,500 | Partial funding of a court liaison working with pregnant and parenting women in residential treatment. |
| Southwest Key Programs | “Community Service for Juvenile Offenders: A Pilot Project to Improve Outcomes Utilizing the Cultural Arts” | $7,500 | To implement and test an innovative program that seeks to improve outcomes for youth assigned community service by the Travis County Juvenile Probation Department. |
| State Bar of Texas | “Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans” | $20,000 | Program to offer a coordinated network of volunteer lawyers to assist veterans who do not have access to or cannot afford legal counsel. |
| Tahirih Justice Center | “Reaching New Survivors: Outreach and Representation for Immigrant Women and Girls Fleeing Violence” | $10,000 | Direct representation through in-house and outside pro bono attorneys for immigrant women who are victims of gender based harm and who are entitled to protection by US law, with targeted outreach to immigrant communities and professionals working with immigrants. |
| Texas Access to Justice Commission | “Access to Justice Summer Internship Program” | $20,000 | |
| Texas Center for the Judiciary, Inc. | “Annual Judicial Education Conference - Texas Bar Foundation Day” | $25,000 | Texas Bar Foundation Day during the 12 hour CJE Judicial Section Annual Conference. |
| Texas Council on Family Violence | “Limited English Proficiency: From Rights to Reality” | $2,000 | The project will train legal advocates statewide on current laws, the barriers for limited English proficiency victims and support the development & distribution of a brochure for victims that explains the law and their legal rights. |
| Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Education Institute | “Annual Forensics Seminar” | $10,000 | To provide travel scholarships for Innocence Project Students to attend Eighth Annual Forensics Seminar which trains defense attorneys, investigators, and their staff in good forensic science by having scientists provide an overview of the possibilities and limits of the field. |
| Dallas Urban Debate Alliance | “Dallas Urban Debate” | $30,000 | To recruit, train, support and professionalize teachers at participating high schools in Dallas ISD as their school’s debate coach. |
| The Women’s Center of Tarrant County | “Rape Crisis & Victims Services” | $15,000 | To provide crisis counseling, crisis hotline, support and accompaniment for victims and significant others through the criminal justice process. |
| Texas Migrant Council Inc | “Safety First Project” | $10,000 | Surveillance Equipment to allow secured/detailed supervision of children and parents during an exchange or visitation with non-custodial parent. |
| Workers Defense Project | “Workers Rights Education Project” | $12,610 | To expand the current Workers’ Rights and Responsibilities Education Project to include training designed for contractors who have become small business owners. |
| Organization Legal Name | Project Title | Grant Amount | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amarillo Area Bar Foundation | “Centennial Historical Minute” | $12,000 | To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Amarillo Area Bar Association and to highlight and preserve the legal, political, educational and civic contributions of Texas Panhandle lawyers by producing and broadcasting a series of one minute “spots” on the area PBS affiliate. |
| American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education | “South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Project” | $50,000 | |
| Better Business Bureau Foundation of El Paso, Inc. | “BBBF/El Paso County Arbitration Program” | $3,000 | To provide arbitrator training for a program with the El Paso County Attorney’s office for a special arbitration process in local contractor cases. |
| Bexar County Women’s Bar Foundation | “Elder Law Handbook Project” | $9,500 | Print and distribute to the general public, in particular targeting the senior population in the San Antonio area, an updated Elder Law Handbook which will include changes or additions to the law made by the Legislature. |
| Casa de Esperanza | “Adoption Program” | $30,000 | To cover all legal expenses associated with relinquishment, termination of parental rights and the consummation of an adoption for children in crisis due to abuse, neglect, or the effects of HIV. |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Grayson County | “Casework Management” | $6,800 | Support current volunteer/program expenses and to solicit, recruit, train and manage new volunteers through a case work supervisor. |
| CASA of the South Plains, Inc. | “Eyes for the Children” | $2,429 | Camera and audio equipment for two visitation rooms to provide live surveillance and record one hour visitations between children and parents which will be used to substantiate the written report provided to the state and judge regarding the visits to further promote the best interests of the children. |
| Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas | “Immigration Services - LawLogix Client Fees” | $8,774 | Provide a fee waiver, on a sliding scale, for low income families and offset labor costs when the web-based case management LawLogix is used. |
| Center Against Family Violence | ““Un Camino Sin Violencia”/”A Path Without Violence”” | $13,145 | To fund a translator in an effort to combat the “epidemic” of family violence in the El Paso region by helping all immigrant persons to “self-petition” and gain lawful permanent residency without their abusive spouse’s help or knowledge and gain safety and independence from their abuser. |
| Center for Child Protection | “Advanced Multidisciplinary Training in Child Abuse Investigations” | $4,600 | To provide two, advanced one-day trainings for the multidisciplinary teams who ensure that the parties responsible for investigating and intervening with child victims and their family members have the knowledge and skills to do their jobs. |
| Center for Family Relations d/b/a San Antonio Kids Exchange | “Monitored Exchange Program” | $11,200 | To provide 20 low income families scholarships for a Monitored Exchange Program in order to remove children from direct parental conflict and provide an emotionally and physically safe place where they can be transferred from one parent to the other for visitation. |
| Centers for Children and Families, Inc. | “Kids First” | $9,850 | To improve the successful transition for low income client families from monitored to unsupervised visits and exchanges, this new project will incorporate clinical treatment elements into a continuum of services that will effectively address each family’s unique circumstance. |
| Child Advocates San Antonio (CASA) | “Transitioning Youth Initiative: Working with the Legal System to Help Children in Need” | $8,750 | Transitioning Youth Initiative supervisor to provide life skills training, educational motivation, and job readiness to youth 15-21 preparing to exit state care. |
| VSTEP Inc. | “Development of Crime Victims’ Rights Enforcement Curriculum and Implementation of Education Program” | $5,000 | Develop a victims’ rights enforcement curriculum and an online education program to increase public awareness about victims’ rights and compliance. |
| Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, Inc. | “Earl Carl Institute Juvenile Justice Project” | $20,000 | To provide direct representation to juvenile students faced with Class C Misdemeanors in Justice of the Peace courts due to school ticketing for in-school behaviors. |
| Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, Inc. | “2009 Telephone System Upgrade” | $23,143 | Upgrade the current 1980s era telephone system to a hybrid Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP)/ISDN system. |
| Legal Aid Society of Lubbock | “Elder Law Community Education Division” | $10,000 | To license, copy and distribute basic information about legal issues of particular concern to the elderly. |
| Free Market Foundation | “Year-Round Legal Intern Program” | $9,000 | A year round legal intern program to provide students with opportunities to work on actual cases with litigators across the state in defense of Constitutional freedoms. |
| Office of Court Administration | “Texas Forum on Self-Represented Litigants and the Courts” | $10,000 | Symposium to address the increasing number of self-represented litigants interacting with Texas courts and to equip courts and other stakeholders in the judicial system with strategies for meeting this challenge. |
| Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido., D.B.A. Texas Civil Rights Project | “The VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) Circuit Rider Program” | $5,250 | To provide laptops to Circuit Rider Program using advocates who travel to rural Texas to help abused immigrants who qualify under the federal Violence Against Women Act to file the necessary documentation to separate from their abusive spouses, secure legal status in the US, and find gainful employment to support themselves and their children. |
| State Bar of Texas Committee on Law Focused Education | “Play by the Rules ...Texas Law for Youth Workshops” | $11,814 | To provide one-day workshops for teachers in El Paso, Houston, Richardson, San Antonio, Edinburg, and Beaumont who agree to implement a new curriculum designed to teach Texas students about the laws to which our state holds them accountable. |
| Texas Appleseed | “Improving the Lives of Children in Long-Term Foster Care” | $15,000 | To provide printing, publishing and distribution of a major study of the obstacles facing children in long-term foster care, called Permanent Managing Conservatorship, which examines how the courts and the legal system can be improved to better support and serve these children. |
| Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism | “Enhancing Access to Ethics-based Continuing Legal Education” | $6,500 | To provide for videographer, creation & duplication of tapes, postage, printing and other supplies to produce a series of short DVD programs, approved for MCLE ethics credit, on various ethics topics that will be made available to local bar associations at no charge. |
| Texas Legal Services Center | “Disaster Assistance - Technology Support Project” | $16,000 | To purchase/configure three new servers to improve collaboration and communications, enhance basic networks and computing capabilities and provide enhanced disaster recovery. |
| Texas Young Lawyers Association | “Cyber Safety and Kids” | $42,750 | A DVD project to educate children and their parents about online dangers and give them the tools needed to be safe and protected while online. |
| Women’s Protective Services of Lubbock, Inc. | “Regional Outreach/Community Education Project” | $3,500 | To purchase laptops to increase the availability of legal advocacy, community education, information and referral for victims of domestic violence in a 12-county service area around Lubbock. |
| Youth Conflict Resolution Center | “Five Hour Conflict Resolution Training” | $9,500 | To provide a free Five Hour Conflict Resolution workshop for youth in the Dallas Metroplex who have been referred by the Truancy Courts and individuals in the community. |
| Organization Legal Name | Project Title | Grant Amount | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Children | Child Forensic Interviewer Position | $20,000 | Partial funding for Child Forensic Interview position to interview child vicitms of sexual assault and create an environment that supports the telling of their story in a safe, child-friendly environment. |
| American Gateways | Establish new client case management and data tracking system | $3,800 | Fund part of the initial costs of establishing a new immigration legal client case management and data tracking system. |
| Boat People SOS, Inc. | Victims of Exploitation and Trafficking Assistance (VETA) | $5,100 | Fund staff for human trafficking project and fund publicity to increase awareness of human trafficking in community and ensure appropriate legal services for victims. |
| Boys and Girls Club of McAllen | Together Time | $10,000 | Establish a co-parenting education and safe, neutral exchange and visitation site with contracted therapist, youth development professional and security. |
| CASA for Kids of Austin, Waller and Washington Counties | Advocacy for children in the foster care system due to abuse or neglect | $12,500 | Funds for personnel, transportation and training costs for two full-time staff members who are relatively new to the program. |
| CASA of Harrison County | Position of case manager | $7,500 | Funding to hire case manager to monitor cases and help with volunteer support and retention. |
| CASA of Travis County | Family Drug Treatment Court (Drug Court) | $12,500 | Provide partial staffing for CASA’s role in the new Travis County Family Drug Treatment Court which is to provide intensive advocacy services to all children involved in the new court. |
| Central Dallas Ministries | Legal Action Works (LAW) Program | $20,000 | Fund staff and equipment to provide legal services to residents in the Greater Dallas area who cannot afford traditional legal services. |
| Child Advocates CASA of Archer, Clay, Montague and Wichita Counties | CASA Volunteer Recruitment Project | $5,000 | Five concentrated mass media campaigns to recruit over 40 new CASA volunteers. |
| The Constitutional Sources Project | Texas Constitutional Curriculum Development | $20,000 | A K-12 constitutional curriculum to inspire students by connecting them first-hand to the words of the Founders using free online library of constitutional documents. |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Collin County, Inc. | Salary for Casework Supervisors | $12,500 | Provide partial salary for Casework Supervisors who provide the supervision and support for the volunteers working with abused and neglected children. |
| Crossroads Family Services | Tackling Teen Truancy | $10,000 | Provide truancy intervention classes for the adolescent defendants (and their parents) who are charged with the criminal offense of failure to attend school. |
| Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation (DAYL) | Educating the Latino Public on Predatory Lending and Their Legal Rights | $16,700 | Spanish public service announcements, pamphlet, website re: predatory lending and consumer legal rights. |
| Dallas Bar Association Community Service Fund | Commission of Book Marking 100th President serving Dallas Bar Association | $5,000 | Commissioning of a local historian to write a book on the history of each of the 100 Presidents who have served the Dallas Bar Association. |
| Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center | 21st Annual Crimes Against Children Conference | $20,000 | Crimes Against Children Conference to provide training to all front-line professionals who work directly with child victims of crime. |
| Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services, Inc. | Indigent Detainee Assistance Hotline | $9,000 | Set-up and staff a toll-free hotline for detainees seeking legal assistance, and would help serve those detainees housed in more rural facilities, as part of the Legal Orientation Program. |
| El Paso Bar Foundation | My Demons Were Real | $10,000 | Final editing, printing and distribution of ’My Demons Were Real,’ a manuscript which explores the development of constitutional protections and civil rights in state and federal courts. |
| Innocence Project of Texas | Statewide DNA Review | $25,000 | Implement a Statewide DNA Review for indigent inmates who request assistance based on claims of wrongful conviction. |
| International Rescue Committee, Dallas Regional Office | Immigratoin Fee Reduction/Waiver Project | $7,500 | Improve access to legal services by providing fee waivers/reductions to refugees, asylees, and victims of human trafficking who demonstrate financial hardship. |
| Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center | Women and Children’s Immigration Project | $3,500 | Hire a paralegal and legal secretary to support the work of the staff and pro bono attorneys to address the growing need of legal services for immigrant women and children. |
| League of Women Voters - Texas Education Fund | Project Voter 2009-2010 | $5,000 | Expand the reach of voter education program with nonpartisan, unbiased Voter Guides, expanded website, educational brochure on legislature, and public service announcements. |
| Mosaic Family Services, Inc. | Multicultural Legal Services Program | $20,000 | Fund a part-time Pro Bono Coordinator to coordinate with and recruit private attorneys to help serve immigrant victims of domestic violence or human trafficking that staff attorneys do not have the capacity to serve. |
| Office of Court Administration | Local Rules Website Initiative | $7,500 | To make local rules and administrative orders freely available to the public on the Texas Supreme Court’s website. |
| State Bar of Texas Committee on Child Abuse & Neglect | Spanish Language DVD, ’When Babies Cry’ | $10,000 | To package, duplicate, and distribute a Spanish language version of ’When Babies Cry’ a DVD on shaken baby syndrome. |
| Texas Center for the Judiciary, Inc. | Judicial Section Annual Conference - Texas Bar Foundation Day | $25,000 | Texas Bar Foundation Day of the Judicial Section Annual Conference. |
| TMC | Laredo-Webb County Safe Haven Program | $15,000 | Expansion of building and equipment for Safe Haven house which serves as safe place for children during supervised visits with non custodial parents and transfer of child between parents. |
| Victim Services Technology Empowerment Program, Inc. | Crime Victims First | $5,000 | Improve and enhance website on constitutional rights of crime victims, produce promotional items to promote services, and set up an office to offer in-person services to crime victims. |
| Waco Regional Baptist Network | Ruth Project: Waco Immigrant Services Center | $5,000 | To provide Immigration Law Training and information material, including a website and brochures for the Ruth Project. |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas | Texas Youth and Government | $10,000 | Provide scholarships to students and advisors to attend state conference of the YMCA Texas Youth & Government program, which helps teenagers become responsible citizens and future leaders. |
| The Youth Village Foundation | Language Camp | $7,500 | Conduct an intensive day camp to improve reading skills of teens who have fallen behind academically and who are at risk of becoming involved in criminal activity. |
| Organization Legal Name | Project Title | Grant Amount | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Urban Debate League | Urban Debate League | $25,000 | The Houston UDL is a public-private partnership that organizes interscholastic debate as an academic competition and promotes debate as a component of the regular classroom curriculum. The grant is to fund educational workshops for the participants. |
| Texas Young Lawyers Association | Healing the Wounds: A Guide to Navigating the Legal System after Surviving Domestic Abuse | $38,000 | This grant funds the video component of the project designed to educate victims of domestic abuse about protective orders, restraining orders, and divorce procedures. The video will be distributed with other materials related to the project to women’s shelters across the state. |
| Texas Appleseed | Improving Educational Outcomes: Empowering Parents and Protecting Student Rights | $7,500 | Appleseed will produce a handbook for parents outlining information pertaining to family’s rights and responsibilities on school discipline and Zero Tolerance policies in Texas. |
| State Bar of Texas Committee on Law Focused Education | The Teachers’ Law School | $18,950 | The Teachers’ Law School addresses the need for the growing number of teachers involved in teaching law classes and law magnet programs in Texas. Over a two-day period 25 teachers will participate in presentations, roundtables, and breakout sessions aimed at giving them the tools to help their students better understand and appreciate the values of the American legal system. |
| Houston Young Lawyers Foundation | Legal Education for Texas Youth | $5,000 | HYLA is presenting two educational initiatives for Houston teens: one that educates middle and high school students on the importance of a college education, and the other on what it means to be an attorney. |
| Young Mens Christian Association Amarillo Family YMCA | Youth in Government | $5,000 | Youth in Government is a program that provides high school aged students with simulated training in the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, and the role of the media. The grant assists with funding for local training, the district training conference, and the annual conference in Austin. |
| Texas Defender Service | Capital Trial Project: Training and Case Consulting for Indigent Capital Defense | $10,000 | Texas Defender Service has created the first public defender’s office for capital trials in Texas. This grant funds training for court-appointed trail attorneys with capital cases. |
| Texas Access to Justice Commission | Access to Justice Internship Program | $35,000 | This grant funds the stipends for law students participating in the Access to Justice Internship Program, as well as costs associated with the two-day orientation. |
| Texas Legal Services Center | Legal Assistance for Victims of Hurricane Ike | $10,000 | The grant funds legal assistance to victims of Hurricane Ike through the training of pro bono attorneys, the distribution of self-help materials, and through direct legal assistance to victims by attorneys at the Legal Hotline for Texans. |
| St. Mary’s University School of Law | The Civil Justice Clinic SSI Initiative | $23,000 | The Civil Justice Clinic has been providing free legal services to San Antonio’s homeless population for 17 years. Law students provide the representation under the supervision of faculty members. The grant allows the clinic to expand services to the homeless into Webb and surrounding counties, and expand the Bexar County outreach sites; and further their efforts in providing consumer issues, such as identity theft/recovery, and in handling social security claims. |
| Catholic Family Service Inc. | Expansion of the Rural Immigration Impact Project | $10,000 | The grant funds the salary of one staff counselor working with immigrants in the Panhandle. Since 2006, Catholic Family Services has tripled their number of cases to 2,500 and expects the growth to continue. |
| The Advocacy Resource Center for Housing (A.R.C.H.) | Tenant Advocacy for Fair Housing | $10,000 | ARCH supplies landlord-tenant mediation and financial assistance to people in danger of being evicted for financial reasons. This grant funds the expansion of the program from Hidalgo County to include Starr County as well. |
| Workers Defense Project | Workers’ Rights Education Project | $8,000 | The grant funds an education program for approximately 2,000 immigrant workers. The program will cover workers’ rights and responsibilities under the law. |
| State Bar of Texas | LeadershipSBOT | $20,000 | This State Bar initiative provides leadership training to 20 Texas lawyers, who closely reflect the demographics of the state. Participants are nominated and then must apply and must be willing to commit one year of service within the Bar. Each of the 20 lawyers will be given a stipend to make a defference in their own community. |
| Texas Judicial Foundation | Purchase of Computer and Nonprofit Corporation Management Software | $30,000 | The Texas Judicial Foundation was created in 2008 as a source for additional monies to address the education and training needs of the Texas judiciary. This grant funds the initial purchase of computer equipment and software. |
| University of Houston Law Foundation–University of Houston Law Center | UH Prelaw Program Initiative | $20,000 | This project is designed to help 35 college sophomores each year take for-credit courses to prepare them for the LSAT. The program should improve the students’ chances for acceptance to law school. This grant funds stipends for the students and costs associated with visiting law professors. |
| Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism | “TCLEP Ethics Website Upgrade” | $15,000 | The grant partially funds the upgrade for TCLEP’s website. The upgrade includes searchable electronic databases and a variety of Ethics CLE course offerings. |
| Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc. | Court Liaison Program | $20,000 | This grant partially funds an FVPS advocate to be housed at the Bexar County Courthouse. This individual acts as a liaison to the Bexar County Civil District Courts, including the Children’s Courts and Family Drug Court, providing immediate linkage for victims to shelter services, counseling, legal services, and education related to domestic violence and abuse. |
| Jane’s Due Process | Pro Bono Outreach and Education Project | $5,000 | Jane’s Due Process, which seeks to ensure legal representation for pregnant minors in Texas, used this grant to update the volunteer attorney manual to include a section on teen dating violence and protective orders. CLE seminars are also included in the program. |
| Children at Risk, Inc. | Human Trafficking Summer Law Institute | $20,000 | Children at Risk is holding a Human Trafficking Summer Law Institute to train six law students. After training, the law students hold seminars and training events across the state for law enforcement and social service providers, teaching others how to identify a victim of human trafficking and the steps that need to be taken to assist the victim. |
| Casa de Esperanza | Adoption Program | $25,000 | Casa de Esperanza provides emergency foster care for children at risk of abuse or neglect and children affected by HIV/AIDS. This grant funds the legal fees associated with the adoption of special needs children. |
| Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido., D.B.A. Texas Civil Rights Project | The Promotora Outreach Program | $2,500 | The grant partially funds the expansion of the Circuit Riders Program. The program provides legal representation, education, and outreach for immigrant domestic violence victims living in underserved rural communities. |
| San Antonio Bar Association | Community Justice Program | $5,000 | The grant funds the revision and reprinting of the Family Law Handbook. The Handbook is used to provide family law information to volunteer pro bono attorneys, clients of local outreach programs, and the personnel of battered women’s shelters. |
| Spaulding for Children | FBI Background Check Fund for Adoption and Foster Care Services | $7,000 | Potential foster and adoptive parents for children in protective custody in Texas must undergo FBI background checks. This grant underwrites the costs of performing the background checks. |
| Center for Child Protection | Sexual Exploitation of Children: The Impact of Technology on Child Safety | $5,000 | The grant helps fund training for Child Protection Team members across Texas, focusing on how to best investigate and prosecute child abuse cases with regard to the ever-changing world of technology and the internet. |
| Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas, Inc. | Investigation of FLDS Child Abuse Allegations | $2,000 | The funding will provide a liaison to serve as the point person between DPS, CPS, and law enforcement involved with the ongoing foresic investigations in Eldorado. |
| Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas | Eldorado FLDS Emergency Representation | $10,000 | The grant funds expenses for travel, litigation, postage, and office supplies resulting from the representation of Mothers living at the Yearning for Zion FLDS compound. |
| Houston Bar Foundation | Assistance for Displaced Attorneys | $8,150 | Assistance for attorneys, especially those outside the Houston area, who experienced dislocations due to Hurricane Ike. |
| Lone Star Legal Aid | Hurricane Ike Assistance | $5,000 | This grant is a gift from the State Bar of Texas Real Estate, Probate and Trust Section designated for use by Lone Star Legal Aid to assist individuals to recover from Hurricane Ike. |