Public Service Venture Fund News
September 6, 2017
Bronx Freedom Fund Wants to Bail Out Young People Before School Starts
September-October 2017
Alec Karakatsanis Fights for Criminal Justice Reform
March 3, 2017
Where Public Defenders Go to Church: Gideon’s Promise
January 27, 2017
Top seeds: Harvard Law School Entrepreneurs Launch New Ventures of Service
December 22, 2016
October 31,2016
August 31,2016
Community Justice Project, Little Farm Trailer Community Case
July 6, 2016
How Mass Incarceration Shapes the Lives of Black Women
January 23,2016
City lawsuit stripped control of nine run-down Miami buildings from New Jersey couple
October 2, 2015
Lawsuit accuses Rutherford probation company of extortion
July 2, 2015
A New Generation of Muslim Leaders Emerges in Boston
June 10, 2015
When Bail is Out of Defendant’s Reach, Other Costs Mount
March 12, 2015
What Would You do with $80K? This Trio Opened their Own ‘Private Legal Aid’
February 10, 2015
Justice, Race and Municipal Courts
February 9, 2015
Jail Time for Unpaid Court Fines and Fees Can Create Cycle of Poverty
February 8, 2015
Missouri Cities Sued Over Municipal Court Practices
February 8, 2015
Ferguson One of 2 Missouri Suburbs Sued Over Gantlet of Traffic Fines and Jail
February 8, 2015
Civil Rights Attorneys Sue Ferguson Over ‘Debtors Prisons’
November 20, 2014
Alabama Settlement could be Model for Handling Poor Defendants in Ferguson, MO
November 4, 2014
Combining Pro Bono Aid and Community Activism
September 9, 2014
Twenty-three from HLS receive Public Service Venture Fund grants
July 28, 2014
The 2014 PSVF Fellows have been selected.
July 24, 2014
Seed Grant recipient Mercedes Montagnes in the news:
June 13, 2014
Seed Grant recipients’ victory in court:
January 1, 2014
Seed Grant organization acquired by Foreign Policy:
August 8, 2013
Social entrepreneurship in the news:
June 10, 2013
The inaugural group of Harvard Public Service Venture Fund Fellows has been selected.
- Fellow biographies and the Harvard press release
- Coverage by the American Bar Association
- Coverage by The National Law Journal
October 4, 2012
The Public Service Venture Fund has been launched.
Harvard Press Release and Video
February 9, 2010
Harvard has announced the creation of the Public Service Venture Fund, a unique program that will award $1 million in grants each year to help HLS graduates pursue careers in public service.