SELECTION CRITERIA & PRIORITIES

SPILF funds law-related projects which involve community education, community organization, legal advocacy, or the provision of direct legal assistance. SPILF gives priority to projects that integrate legal work with broad-based organizing strategies aimed at fundamental social change and directed toward one or more of the following objectives:

1. representing groups traditionally underrepresented by the legal profession;


2. altering the underlying causes of injustice, poverty, and disenfranchisement;


3. creating a society free from racism, sexism, heterosexism, and economic exploitation and supporting the rights of disabled people, immigrants and refugees, lesbians and gay men, people of color, women, workers, youth and the elderly;


4. promoting public health and environmental quality by working to change the root causes of environmental degradation.

We especially encourage and give greater weight to proposals with which Stanford Law School graduates are involved. SPILF and Stanford Law School provide separate summer funding for students who wish to work in non-paying public interest or governmental summer jobs. Applicants are encouraged to accept Stanford law students for summer internships.

• Due to our status as a 501(c)(3) organization, we are unable to fund political lobbying activities.


• Please note: LEXIS-NEXIS subscriptions are no longer available through SPILF.

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