Grants Approved
The Board of Governors of the Law Foundation of B.C. met on June 16, 2007. Chair Warren Wilson, QC is pleased to announce that funding totalling $2,454,477 has been approved for the following:

Funding totalling $1,743,480 was approved for the following 31 Projects under the 2007 Large Projects Initiative (56 projects were not funded):

$75,000,B.C. COALITION TO ELIMINATE ABUSE OF SENIORS, Older Adults Law Clinic Needs Assessment Project

$75,000,B.C. LAW INSTITUTE, Employment Leave and Other Entitlements in Relation to Care Giving for Family Members Project

$75,000,CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION, B.C. BRANCH, Aboriginal Student Scholarship Project

$75,000,CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION – B.C. DIVISION, Mental Health Diversion Project

$75,000,CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION SOCIETY OF B.C., Land Title Practice Manual Online

$75,000,PARENT SUPPORT SERVICES OF B.C., Grandparents Raising Grandchildren – Legal Research and Workbook Project

$75,000,PRO BONO LAW OF B.C. AND WESTERN CANADA SOCIETY TO ACCESS JUSTICE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SALVATION ARMY PRO BONO PROGRAM, Pro Bono Coordination and Cross-Referral Project

$75,000,UNION OF B.C. INDIAN CHIEFS, Specific Claims Research Workshops

$75,000,VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Multilingual Online Glossary of Legal & Court Related Terms: Developing an Additional Language
Multilingual Online Glossary of Legal & Court Related Terms: Development of Immigration Law
Multilingual Online Glossary of Legal & Court Related Terms: Development of Family Law

$75,000,WEST COAST PRISON JUSTICE SOCIETY, Prisoners’ Human Rights Project

$73,586, PACIFIC ASSOCIATION OF FIRST NATIONS WOMEN, Section 84 Environmental Scan

$68,551, OKANAGAN ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE SOCIETY, Regional Training Advocacy Project

$68,350, YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VANCOUVER (YWCA), Legal Education for Women Project

$60,000, LAW COURTS EDUCATION SOCIETY ON BEHALF OF SUPREME COURT SELF-HELP INFORMATION CENTRE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Research into Providing Self-Help Services – Supreme Court Family/Civil Litigation

$57,000, ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER, Securing the Rights and Healthy Futures for Children of Offenders

$55,000, WOMEN’S LEGAL EDUCATION AND ACTION FUND (LEAF), Monitoring Equality Jurisprudence and Legal Trends

$50,500, SOCIETY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING EDUCATION, AWARENESS AND DEVELOPMENT (AHEAD), Residential Tenancy Act Course Materials Revisions

$50,000,DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA, Green Infrastructure Bylaw Initiative

$50,000,LEGAL SERVICES SOCIETY ON BEHALF OF PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION AND INFORMATION WORKING GROUP OF B.C., Public Legal Education and Information Working Group Portal Website

$50,000,SMART GROWTH B.C., Affordable Housing Policy Reform Strategy

$50,000,UNIVERSITY OF B.C., FACULTY OF LAW, UBC Okanagan Entrance Scholarships

$40,893, MOSAIC, Multilingual Legal Website: Documents Translation Project

$40,000, UNIVERSITY OF B.C., FACULTY OF LAW, Public Access Launch of the Centre for Global Environmental and Natural Resources Law

$37,800, NORTH CARIBOO MÉTIS ASSOCIATION, Métis/Aboriginal Youth Justice Advocate

$30,000, DOUGLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION, Legal Studies Diploma Program Endowment Project

$20,000, UNIVERSITY OF B.C., FACULTY OF LAW, Aboriginal Justice Conference: The Practice of Aboriginal Rights and Aboriginal Title

$16,800, PRO BONO LAW OF B.C. IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY, 2007 Non-Profit Law Seminars

$15,000, VOICE OF CEREBRAL PALSIED OF GREATER VANCOUVER, Reprinting the How to Create a Trust: A Resource Guide for People Receiving Persons with Disabilities Benefits and their Families

$10,000, B.C. COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS, Manual for Adjudicators

Funding totalling $50,000 was approved for the following Family Innovation Fund Project:

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHILD RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT, Child Participation in B.C. Family Legal Processes

Funding totalling $660,997 was approved for the following seven Child Welfare Fund Projects:

$142,500, SCW’EXMX CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES , Interior Delegated First Nations Child and Family Advocate/Circle Facilitator (Year 1)

$100,000,KLA-HOW-EYA ABORIGINAL CENTRE, Focus on Alternate Dispute Resolution for Aboriginal Children (Year 1)

$100,000,NORTHWEST INTER-NATIONS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY, Family Group Conferencing Project (Year 1)

$100,000,NUU-CHA-NULTH TRIBAL COUNCIL, USMA Nuu-Cha-Nulth Alternate Dispute Resolution Project (Year 1)

$100,000,GITXSAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY, Family group conferencing and advocacy project (Year 2)

$98,497, VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL AND FAMILY SERVICES, Family Group Decision Making Conference Project (Year 1)

$20,000, FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER, Development grant – Aboriginal Mediation Services for Lower Mainland Families

For full details of the programs and projects that received funding, please visit The Law Foundation of British Columbia’s website at www.lawfoundationbc.org.

This article was published in the August 2007 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2007, all rights reserved.