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The Law Foundation of British Columbia
Funding Notice
The Law Foundation has established a projects budget of $500,000 for 2006 for one-time projects.

The Law Foundation encourages applicants and projects that reflect the diversity of British Columbia. The Law Foundation’s working definition of diversity is: Diversity includes age, different abilities, socio-economic level, education, ethnicity, language, family, gender, marital/relationship status, race, religion, work experience, geographic size and location, and sexual orientation.

2006 Project Initiative
Who Can Apply?
A non-profit organization in British Columbia whose proposed time-limited project falls within one or more of the five statutory mandated areas of the Law Foundation: legal aid; legal education; legal research; law reform; and law libraries.

Areas of encouragement:

The Law Foundation is particularly interested in receiving proposals that meet needs in the following areas:

• Aboriginal Justice
• Family Law
• Legal Research

Women and the Law

The Law Foundation will consider proposals in areas other than those listed above as long as they fall within the program objectives of the Law Foundation.

Grant Size
The maximum amount available for each project is $75,000. Note: If your project is for $15,000 or below, please apply under the Law Foundation’s 2006 Small Projects Initiative. For further information, please contact the Law Foundation, see contact information below.

Application Process
There will be a two-stage process: a Letter of Intent stage followed by selected applicants being invited to submit full applications.

Please contact Law Foundation staff at (604) 688-2337 to discuss your project prior to submitting a Letter of Intent form.

To be considered, please submit a Letter of Intent form by 5:00 pm, Friday February 10, 2006 by mail, courier, or fax. Please do not e-mail Letter of Intent forms.

Letter of Intent forms may be obtained:

• from www.lawfoundationbc.org (Microsoft Word or PDF format)
• by e-mailing lfbc@tlfbc.org
• by calling (604) 688-2337
• by faxing (604) 688-4586
• by writing the Law Foundation of B.C., 1340 - 605 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5J3

Selected applicants will be invited to submit full applications by Thursday April 13, 2006 for adjudication at the June 2006 Board of Governors’ meeting.

Please note that the Foundation will require an organization’s audited financial statements or an audit of the project for any grant in excess of $30,000.

Funding Notice
The Law Foundation has established a budget of $100,000 for small, one-time projects for 2006. To be eligible for funding, a project must fall within one or more of the five program objectives of the Law Foundation: legal aid; legal education; legal research; law reform; and law libraries.

2006 Small Project Initiative
The Law Foundation encourages applications from organizations that are interested in implementing projects of a smaller scale.

The Law Foundation encourages applicants and projects that reflect the diversity of British Columbia. The Law Foundation’s working definition of diversity is: Diversity includes age, different abilities, socio-economic level, education, ethnicity, language, family, gender, marital/relationship status, race, religion, work experience, geographic size and location, and sexual orientation.

All applications that fall within the program objectives of the Law Foundation will be considered.

The maximum amount available for each time-limited project is $15,000.

To be considered at the 2006 June Board meeting, a small project application must be received by the Law Foundation no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2006.

The Small Projects application guidelines and form may be obtained:

• from www.lawfoundationbc.org (Microsoft Word or PDF format)
• by e-mailing lfbc@tlfbc.org
• by calling (604) 688-2337
• by faxing (604-688-4586
• by writing the Law Foundation of B.C., 1340 - 605 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5J3

Please contact Law Foundation staff at (604) 688-2337 to discuss your project prior to submitting your application.

Graduate Fellowships 2006/2007
Value
Up to four (4) Awards of $13,750 each (subject to change)

Closing Date
All applications and support materials must be received by the Law Foundation offices by January 5, 2006. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Application Documents
Letter of Intent forms, application guidelines and application forms for the above funding initiatives may be obtained from: www.lawfoundationbc.org; by e-mailing lfbc@tlfbc.org; by calling 604.688.2337; or by writing the Law Foundation of B.C., 1340-605 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5J3

These articles were published in the December 2005 issue of BarTalk. © 2005 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.