Legal Aid of North Carolina seeks proposals from consultants to work with our Pro Bono Programs team to complete a six-month, targeted, internal assessment of our pro bono program.
We seek proposals only from consultants who have experience working with recipients of Planning Grants or Transformation Grants from the Legal Services Corporation’s Pro Bono Innovation Fund.
Our goal for the assessment is to gather and analyze the information necessary to develop a plan for the full integration of pro bono into our firm’s advocacy strategy and operations at the field office level, thereby achieving our vision of a pro bono program that helps meet our clients most pressing legal needs. At a time when our staff advocates are stretched thin, we believe that pro bono volunteers are an under-utilized resource and a potential solution to meeting the overwhelming needs of our clients.
The scope of work will include:
- Conducting online surveys, focus-group discussions and one-on-one interviews with LANC staff and possibly some external stakeholders;
- Gathering and analyzing case and volunteer statistics from our case management system; and
- Analyzing information gathered from the aforementioned sources, including comprehensive intermediate and final reports.
Proposals are due September 2, 2024. LANC will select a consultant and notify proposal submitters of its decision on September 9, 2024. The assessment will run from October 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025. The final assessment report is due March 31, 2025.