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Fast Facts
March
NAACP Law Fellow Program
Award: $5000 to offset living and travel expenses and summer position at NAACP Headquarters in Baltimore, MD working with a civil rights attorney in the areas of criminal justice, education, housing, voting rights and environmental justice
Deadline: March 20, 2009
Criteria: Candidates must have completed one year of law school, have an interest in civil rights law, and have strong academic credentials.
Summer LGBT Rights Internship
Award: Grant to fund public interest project benefiting the LGBT community and/or people living with HIV/AIDS.
Deadline: March 20, 2009
Criteria: Preference is given to student with ties to Washington State and who have demonstrated an interest and commitment to LGBT rights and/or the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Frederikson & Byron Foundation Minority Scholarship
Award: $10,000, summer 2009 associate position.
Deadline: March 31, 2009
Criteria: Candidates must be a first year law student at an ABA approved law school.

