The Internal Revenue Service has opened the 2011 Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) grant application process. Applications must be submitted no later than July 16, 2010 . The LITC grant program is a federal program administered by the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate at the IRS, led by National

The National Legal Aid and Defender Association will be hosting concurrently its Substantive Law and Litigation and Advocacy Directors Conferences on July 21-24, 2010 in Chicago. These two distinct conferences have been brought together in order to facilitate dialogue between advocates and foster

The United States Administration on Aging has just released A Toolkit for Serving Diverse Communities , a new publication designed to provide the Aging Network and its partners with a replicable and easy-to-use method for providing respectful, inclusive, and sensitive services for any diverse

The National Consumer Law Center and the National Senior Citizens Law Center will be presenting a webinar entitled Health Care Reform & the Aging Population: How the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act will impact low-income older adults on June 23, 2010 from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Eastern.

Agriculture Secretary Russell C. Redding today urged eligible older adults who are at risk of hunger to enroll before June 30 in an expanded program that can provide them with healthy foods. Redding said the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, or CSFP , provides foods such as canned fruits and

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will begin requiring applicants seeking grant funding to comply with state and local laws that protect individuals from being denied housing based on their lawful source of income. This funding requirement is part of a broader effort by HUD to

Legal Services Corporation President Victor M. Fortuno spoke at the Pennsylvania Project Director Association Meeting in Harrisburg on June 7. The association is composed of the heads of the state’s civil legal aid programs, eight of which are LSC grantees. Fortuno, who began his legal career as a

The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has published the May 2010 edition of the Health Law PA News , its free bi-monthly newsletter. Click here to view this edition on PALAWHELP.org . For prior editions or more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, please visit the PHLP website at www