August 21, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: CLC finds new ways to use law to help neighborhoods
From helping community organizations for more than 25 years, the Community Law Center has seen its nonprofit clients evolve — just like the neighborhoods they serve.
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Read More »June 17, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: BNI promotes justice in housing (and renting)
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc. is unique. And not just because it promotes fair housing opportunities for both renters and home buyers throughout Maryland — and is, in fact, 10 years older than the federal Fair Housing Act (which turned 45 this year).
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Read More »May 30, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: Veterans conference is an opportunity to serve
Few issues are more compelling than the struggles disabled military veterans face with homelessness, especially when they are owed disability benefits that could get or keep them off the streets.
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Read More »May 3, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: Leave your footprint on the Poor People’s March
Still fuming over the media hoopla that surrounded the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library? (Wouldn’t, say, a mini-golf course be more appropriate for a guy famous for not reading books?)
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Read More »April 21, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: UM Carey clinic serves immigrants, trains students
The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Immigration Clinic has two operational goals. First, to help people facing deportation. And second, to prepare student attorneys for the actual practice of law.
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Read More »March 31, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: UB Law’s Urban Child Symposium to focus on trauma
A quarter of children in the U.S. experience or witness a traumatic event before age four. And the number is nearly nine in 10 for children in the juvenile justice system.
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Read More »March 17, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: St. Ambrose expands legal services beyond foreclosure
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, Baltimore’s oldest nonprofit serving the housing needs of the city and state’s low-income residents, is reinvigorating its legal services program.
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Read More »March 3, 2013 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: Tax Sale Education Project helps seniors keep their homes
The yawn factor around tax sales of houses in Maryland is right up there with, say, watching paint dry. But the unintended consequences of low-income seniors losing their homes because of tax sales are dramatic.
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Read More »December 23, 2012 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: Beyond boarded-up houses
Signs of economic distress in a community go beyond houses in disrepair, boarded-up or in foreclosure. Another indicator is abandoned animals — especially cats.
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Read More »November 18, 2012 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: MLSC to recognize stalwarts of services to the poor
This year, the Maryland Legal Services Corp. has tapped some stalwarts of the legal services profession for its annual awards — and will also honor the Maryland Office of the Attorney General for its leadership in access to justice.
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