Community Service Award
The Community Service Award recognizes a
legal aid client or low-income community leader in North Carolina
who has provided extraordinary and dedicated service to the justice
community and meets the following criteria:
(1) Extraordinary service to the equal justice community and to
organizations that promote access to
justice for low-income
people in North Carolina;
(2) Demonstrated leadership involving projects, activities
and/or actions that effectively support and
advance the
legal aid community and low-income people
in North Carolina;
and
(3) Significant volunteer efforts to encourage community
partnerships, empower low-income people and
remove
legal barriers to economic opportunity in
North Carolina.
Selection of the Community Service Award
recipient is approved by a committee appointed by the chair of the
Legal Aid of NC Clients Council.
Presentation of the Community Service Award is typically made at the
biennial North Carolina Legal Services Statewide Conference or as
deemed appropriate by the Legal Aid of NC Clients Council.
Community Service Award Recipients
This award was last presented in 2008 to
Sarah Davis of Apex, NC at the 2008 NC Legal Services Statewide Conference.
Other recipients of this award include:
Charles
R. "C.R." Ward
Lake Waccamaw, NC (2006)
Willis
E. Williams
Jamesville, NC (2004)
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Mission Statement
Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm
that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income
people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove
legal barriers to economic opportunity.