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Adam Peltz (LAW ‘11) spent his summer in 2009 interning at the Legal Resources Center, a legal NGO based in Accra, Ghana. There he worked on a UN-funded Right-to-Media project. He funded his trip with a Public Interest Project (PIP) grant.
[...]“What we did was a very early stage of getting together maybe 50 people in the community to talk about what’s entailed in getting a community radio station,†says Peltz. The tasks, he says, included, “Working from the ground up, getting a building, getting land, buying equipment, and determining what sort of programming the community might be interested in having.â€
Peltz is confident in the future of the station: “Over the two weeks people started to understand exactly what we were there for and started to take ownership of the station...it's going apace and hopefully it'll be online within the next 18 months."
-Reported and produced by Nora Dunne
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2011 marked a milestone year for BU Law's student-run organization, the Public Interest Project (PIP). On March 31, PIP celebrated the 20th anniversary of its annual auction. Proceeds support BU Law students working in public interest jobs for the [...]summer.
“I like seeing it come to fruition. This is nine months of work right here. It’s nice to pull it off,†said PIP President Kasmira Brough.
PIP's three founding members, Michael Gollin (‘84), Joseph Ronson (‘85) and Daniel Van Doren (‘85), attended the event. They received distinguished alumni awards for their continued support of the organization. Dean O’Rourke also received a faculty award for service to the public interest.
The evening began with a silent auction including a wide variety of items ranging from $1,500 gift certificates for BARBRI to an electric bass. The live auction was hosted by an auctioneer from Stanley J. Paine Auctioneers who donated their services for the event.
PIP organizes a number of different fundraising efforts throughout the year, but their annual auction gala is by far the largest. This year’s auction remained a success, raising $60,544.
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