About the Community Law and Business Clinic
Mission
The CL&BC serves two complementary missions:
- Provide Wake Forest students with a clinical education opportunity.
- Enhance community economic development efforts through delivering professional and consulting services.
Practice Areas and Core Competencies
Through CL&BC Wake Forest students and faculty offer their expertise, resources, and skills to the community by facilitating entrepreneurship, either through for-profit or nonprofit ventures.
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Nonprofit Development and Capacity Building – CL&BC will work to increase the capacity of nonprofit organizations as they work to fulfill their missions by providing legal and business consulting services, including:
- Organizational assessment
- Strategic planning
- Board training and capacity building
- Legal Assistance
- Marketing strategies and analysis
In addition, CL&BC will direct attention to work in two targeted areas: Nonprofit Housing Development and Community Based Philanthropy.
Small Business Development – CL&BC has developed a strategy for serving the needs of emerging businesses by providing both training on business law issues and individualized assistance with business development. CL&BC will work in two focused practice areas: Arts Entrepreneurship and Agriculture Related Entrepreneurship. In each of these areas CL&BC will make a series of trainings available to business owners and community leaders.
Geographic Service Areas
The CL&BC serves clients in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County and neighboring rural communities that are experiencing financial distress.
Client Eligibility & Fees
Entrepreneurs, whether for-profit or nonprofit, who lack access to other professional services and who work in the areas we serve can receive assistance free of charge. If you are interested in receiving assistance from our Clinic, please fill out and return the client application. Every effort is made to respond to applications within 10 business days.
