{"id":2277,"date":"2014-01-13T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/lids\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2014-01-13T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T01:30:47","slug":"short-term-project-opportunity-with-evidence-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/lids\/2014\/01\/13\/short-term-project-opportunity-with-evidence-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-term Project Opportunity with Evidence Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>Project Opportunity with Evidence Action<br \/>\n<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b><\/b><\/i>Evidence Action is US-based non-profit committed to scaling up proven, cost-effective, and sustainable interventions. It is also a sister organization of Innovations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poverty-action.org\/\">Poverty Action<\/a> (IPA) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.povertyactionlab.org\/\">MIT\u2019s Poverty Action Lab<\/a>. The organization is currently developing an innovative and sustainable financing strategy for its Dispensers for Safe Water project, a major initiative to provide safe water in East Africa already serving 1 million people with a plan to serve 25 million by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence Action&#8217;s Strategy Team is looking for a law student with interest in social enterprise, investment structuring or international development to take on short-term volunteer consulting project doing research\/advisory (~10 hrs over 2-3 weeks) on key legal issues (including feasibility, liability, structuring considerations) surrounding the formation of an endowment or a carbon-financing-based investment structure by a non-profit. Interested candidates should contact Mary Hong (<a href=\"mailto:mary_hong@hks15.harvard.edu\" target=\"_blank\">mary_hong@hks15.harvard.edu<\/a>) and copy Christina Reichers (<a href=\"mailto:criechers@poverty-action.org\" target=\"_blank\">criechers@poverty-action.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Opportunity with Evidence Action Evidence Action is US-based non-profit committed to scaling up proven, cost-effective, and sustainable interventions. 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