2008 Grantee Excellence In Service and Programming Award

The Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) awarded the 2008 Grantee Award for Excellence in Service and Programming to The Pro Bono Project. Post-Katrina, The Pro Bono Project worked to engage the services of law students, law professors and out of state volunteer attorneys to provide legal services to returning residents and newcomers within two months of the storm. The Pro Bono Project succeeded in turning a natural disaster into an opportunity to tell its story and engage nationwide volunteers to come to New Orleans to help fulfill The Project’s mission.

The Grantee Award for Excellence in Service and Programming recognizes a LBF grantee for an innovative, imaginative program and/or public service in the legal arena. The award emphasizes creativity of the idea, efficiency of execution, outcomes of the project or programs and its ability to be duplicated by other service programs.