The Thurgood Marshall Program is designed to provide low-income, minority, or disadvantaged secondary school students and college student with the information, preparation, and financial assistance needed to gain access to and to complete law school study.

Funding for this program may be used to pay for services such as: pre-college programs; undergraduate pre-law information resources centers; information and counseling; tutorial services; pre-law mentoring programs; assistance and counseling on admission to accredited law schools; a six-week summer law institute for Thurgood Marshall fellows to prepare for legal studies; mid-year seminars; and other educational activities.

This grant is non-competitive. Program funds for Thurgood Marshall are earmarked for the Council on Legal Education Opportunity.

The sole source grantee has five years from the date of the beginning of the grant award cycle to carry out approved activities and services.

Each grant award is made in the amount of $3 million per year.

There is no cost matching required for this grant.

The grantee is required to submit an annual performance report at the end of each year detailing how well its approved activities were implemented and carried out during each year of the grant award.

The grantee must adhere to the applicable parts of the Education Department General Administrative Regulations for purposes of auditing and/or evaluation of the project.

Allowable activities include: pre-college programs; undergraduate pre-law information resource centers; information and counseling; tutorial services; pre-law mentoring programs; assistance and counseling on admission to accredited law schools; a six-week summer law institute for Thurgood Marshall fellows to prepare for legal studies; and mid-year seminars.

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