National Pro Bono Week, Oct. 24-30, 2010

Sharon Browning, consultant for the 2010 National Celebration of Pro Bono Week sponsored nationally by the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and promoted in Pennsylvania through the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Pro Bono Office, has provided the following links to some organizing ideas on the National Pro Bono Week website:
     Event Ideas
     How to Organize a State
     How to Organize a City
     Top 10 Organizing Tips
     How to Involve the Courts

The national celebration website's Resources page offers planning items/tools as well, including sample op-eds, judicial letters, save-the-date cards and letters to the editor. Ms. Browning, a longtime civil legal aid champion based in Philadelphia, can be reached through her JUST Listening project, by e-mail at sbrowning@justlistening.net