Funding News

APADRC is excited to receive for a second year in a row a grant from the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California (SABA-SC) Public Interest Foundation to continue and expand its South Asian Mediation Program.  The funding will allow APADRC to pay a South Asian intern who speaks Hindi and Urdu to provide mediation  services to the South Asian community as well as outreach to them about how mediation can assist them resolve conflicts in an inexpensive and non-adversarial manner.  Because APADRC receives funding from the county to help low-income clients, we charge a $20 administrative fee that we will waive for indigent clients.  South Asians are one of the largest Asian ethnic groups in Southern California, and APADRC has made a commitment to expand its services to serve the South Asian community.

Established in 2003, the Foundation is the 501(c)(3) non-profit affiliate of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California, one of the oldest and largest South Asian bar associations in the country.  The SABA-SC Foundation provides annual grants to organizations that serve South Asian communities and summer fellowships to South Asian law students committed to public interest work.  The Foundation’s public interest grants play a vital role in allowing many worthwhile organizations to provide valuable services to under-served communities.  The Foundation’s public interest fellowships enable distinguished law school students to work for local public interest organizations during the summer.  These fellowships have been successful in encouraging law school students to serve underprivileged individuals and communities and in promoting awareness of public interest issues that impact South Asians in particular.