Program Profile

North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, Inc.

Ben Thomas Cole, II, Executive Director
5 County Rd 1014, P.O. Box 767, Oxford MS 38655-0767
Phone: (662) 234-8731; Fax: (662) 236-3263
http://www.nmrls.com/

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CURRENT FUNDING STATUS
FY 2012
Basic Field
FY 2011
Basic Field
$ Difference
from FY 2011
% Difference
from FY 2011
$1,890,204 $2,214,904 $-324,700 -17%

FUNDING HISTORY
Year LSC Funding* Non-LSC Funding Total Funding LSC Funding %
2011 2,367,924 561,624 2,929,548 81%
2010 2,392,866 633,968 3,026,834 79%
2009 2,203,253 893,937 3,097,190 71%
*Includes Basic Field and other LSC grants, carryover funds and derivative income.

TOTAL CASES CLOSED
2009 2010 2011
3,461 3,801 4,453
WORKFORCE 2011
Attorney Paralegal Other Total
12 1 15 28

NUMBER OF PEOPLE SERVED 2011*
Adults Children Total
6,238 6,323 12,561
*Includes number of persons in households for cases closed.

CASES CLOSED BY CASE TYPE 2011
Case Type # %
FAMILY 2,203 49%
INCOME 609 14%
CONSUMER 595 13%
HOUSING 326 7%
JUVENILE 294 7%
EMPLOYMENT 215 5%
MISC 139 3%
INDIVIDUAL 50 1%
HEALTH 13 0%
EDUCATION 9 0%
TOTALS 4,453 100%
CLIENTS BY ETHNICITY 2011
Ethnicity # %
White 1,419 32%
African American 2,973 67%
Hispanic 18 0%
Native American 11 0%
Asian/Pacific 18 0%
Other 14 0%
TOTALS 4,453 100%

CLIENTS BY GENDER 2011
Gender # %
Women 3,451 77%
Men 1,002 23%
TOTALS 4,453 100%

Counties Served

Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada, Humphreys, Issaquena, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Leflore, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Washington, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha


Branch office locations

North Mississippi Rural Legal Services
05 CR 1014, P. O. Box 928
Oxford, MS 38655

North Mississippi Rural Legal Services
313 Highway 45 Alternate South, P.O. Box 277
West Point, MS 39773

North Mississippi Rural Legal
526-D Choctaw Street, P.O. Box 1107
Clarksdale, MS 38614

North Mississippi Rural Legal Services
1024 Washington Ave. - Suite 101, P.O. Box 858
Greenville, MS 38701