Legal Aid Society gets grants

The Cleveland Plain Dealer Community News Briefs Thursday, December 23, 2004 CUYAHOGA COUNTY

CLEVELAND

Legal Aid Society gets grants

The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland received four grants to support its work. The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation awarded the society $100,000 for the pilot year of the Volunteer Lawyers Program. As part of the program, volunteer attorneys will help low-income clients through evening clinics, advice clinics at neighborhood community centers and various legal specialty projects. The lawyers will address legal problems related to homelessness, basic income survival, consumer issues, benefit programs, education and housing. The Murphy Family Foundation granted $5,000 for the lawyers program. The Wean Foundation gave Legal Aid $10,000 for special education advocacy. And a local lawyer helped the society get $40,000 left over from a settlement in a class- action suit. This marked the first time Legal Aid received grants from local foundations or such a settlement award, said Melanie Shakarian, director of development.

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