EIS Housing Resource Center: Legal Clinics

Legal or Paralegal assistance needed in Legal Clinics

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EIS collaborates with housing attorneys to assist New York City tenants on a one-to-one basis, offering NO FEE advice on particular tenant problems during our Legal Clinics. We hold three housing legal clinics per week one  at our office in Manhattan, one of which is especially geared towards seniors and held by our attorney for elders, though seniors may also attend the other clinic.  On Thursdays afternoons, EIS partners with the People’s Firehouse in Brooklyn to offer an on-site legal clinic in Brooklyn.

Our Tuesday legal clinic begins at 2:30.

Our Wednesday legal clinic  is from 2pm-4pm.

Our Thursday legal clinic in BROOKLYN is from 3pm-7pm.

Social

• Making weekly counseling phone calls to SORT clients
• Assisting our Outreach Social Worker
• Assisting in home visits to clutterers/hoarders’ homes
• Writing grant requests for client needs in paying back rental arrears

Development

• Public Relations
• Special Events
• Researching Foundations
• Researching statistics for use in newsletters and proposals
• Writing / proofreading grant proposals
• Special Events/ Fundraising
• Tenant Training Seminars – one in the Spring and one in the Fall
• Mailings to attendees