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9 people are interested
Development Coordinator
ORGANIZATION: Wisconsin Innocence Project
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9 people are interested
The Wisconsin Innocence Project is a clinical legal education program at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Through the Project, law students, under clinical faculty supervision, represent incarcerated individuals who have provable claims that they are actually innocent and wrongly convicted of the offenses for which they are serving sentences. While the Project is funded at a base level by the University of Wisconsin Law School, investigating and litigating claims of innocence is very expensive, and the demand for services is high, so additional funds are required to provide the services that are needed. Increasingly, the Project must turn to outside funding sources to fulfill its mission. To assist in this effort, the Project seeks a volunteer to help create and execute a development strategy to raise these additional funds. Ideally, the volunteer will be someone with experience in grant writing (both for federal grants and private foundation awards), development of individual donor bases, and fundraising event planning, and will be able to make an adequate commitment of time to help design and implement a development strategy.
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About Wisconsin Innocence Project
Location:
975 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706, US
Mission Statement
The Wisconsin Innocence Project seeks to exonerate the innocent, educate students, and reform the criminal justice system by identifying and remedying the causes of wrongful convictions.
Description
The Wisconsin Innocence Project (WIP) was founded in 1998 by Professors Keith Findley and John Pray. WIP seeks to exonerate the innocent, educate students, and reform the criminal justice system by identifying and remedying the causes of wrongful convictions. Since its founding, WIP has been nationally recognized for its clinical legal educational program at the University of Wisconsin Law School. WIP was one of the earliest innocence programs in the country and has been a leader in the international Innocence Movement.
Since its founding, WIP has successfully freed twenty wrongfully convicted individuals. Although WIP focuses on cases within Wisconsin, it also offers assistance in cases around the United States. WIP accepts cases with potential DNA evidence or other types of newly discovered evidence that support a claim of actual innocence.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
975 Bascom MallMadison, WI 53706
DATE POSTED
June 25, 2015
SKILLS
- Resource Development / Management
- Grant Writing / Research
- Fundraising
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Commit for at least 1 year for 5-10 hours/week