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Minnesota Justice Foundation (MJF)
Each summer, MJF sponsors and funds law student summer clerkships at legal aid offices and public interest organizations in Minnesota. MJF clerks provide their placement agency (often struggling with limited resources) with intensive help with casework, research and legal writing. Clerks work at the direction and under the supervision of the agencies’ own lawyers, thereby gaining practical experience. Each clerk works a minimum of 400 hours over the summer.
MJF clerkships are open to students enrolled at all of Minnesota’s four law schools.
During the summer of 2008, MJF funded and coordinated 21 summer clerkships throughout the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota, including for the Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project, the Council on Crime and Justice, the Minnesota AIDS Project, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and the White Earth Tribal Court.
Since its beginning in 1983, 578 MJF-funded summer clerks have provided 231,000 hours of service to the low-income and public sector communities.
The money raised by ANT supports MJF’s summer clerkship program. In the summer of 2008, five of the clerkships were funded by ANT proceeds.
Hennepin County Bar Foundation (HCBF)
The Hennepin County Bar Foundation, founded in 1968, supports, through grants, programs that: (1) facilitate legal service to individuals of limited resources; (2) increase public understanding of law-related resources; (3) increase public understanding of the law; and (4) improve the administration of justice. In the 2007–2008 bar year, ending June 30, 2008, the HCBF made 28 grants in the aggregate amount of over $115,000. Thanks in part to contributions from the Attractive Nuisance Tour, both the number of grantees and the total grants reached record heights.
ANT contributions are an important component of the HCBF’s grant activity. Funds received from the Attractive Nuisance Tour have allowed the Hennepin County Bar Foundation to fund new programs while continuing to support traditional providers in the legal community.
Support of new initiatives within established organizations and support of efforts by recently created entities enables the Foundation to leverage its grantmaking capability. Without ANT funds, the breadth of Foundation activity would be narrowed, to the detriment of Hennepin County residents served by HCBF grantees.
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