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Funding for PLE comes from a variety of sources and has been instrumental in shaping the field. Funding takes the form of both core and special project funding. Core funding supports an organization's infrastructure and any on-going programs and services it may offer. This is the most difficult type of funding for organizations to secure but it is essential to maintaining the organization's viability and its credibility with the public. Law foundations and federal and provincial governments have played the main role in sustaining PLE organizations. Most PLE activities, however, are supported through special project funds. Again, law foundations and various federal and provincial justice ministries provide the bulk of this funding. To these major funding sources are added legal aid societies, law societies, other provincial and federal ministries, public and private foundations, corporations, and individual donors. Some PLE groups offer a few services on a fee-for-service basis or sell advertising in their publications. PLE agencies are nothing if not inventive in exciting the interests of a diverse group of funders! Project funds enable PLE organizations to respond to particular issues of current concern. However, project funding may not allow the organization to respond to priorities it has identified nor to provide a sustained response to on-going public needs.
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