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The Community Enterprise Project is a practice unit of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. The mission of the Community Enterprise Project is to participate in facilitating community economic development in traditionally low opportunity communities. CEP works to stimulate business development, increase access to capital, promote job growth, and enable sustainable affordable home ownership. CEP provides legal assistance in: business formation, contract review and negotiation, commercial financing ,commercial leasing, real estate purchase and sales, business acquisitions, arts and entertainment, intellectual property, non-profit formation, permitting and licensing, zoning appeals, and other transactional legal services. CEP collaborates with and provides legal assistance to individual and corporate clients, business assistance providers, non-profit organizations, community development corporations and other community based organizations engaged in commercial or economic development activities. Community Enterprise Project operates through the Business and Non-Profit Organization clinic, Real Estate Clinic, and Recording Artist Project clinic, all of which are a part of the clinical education program of Harvard Law School.
Community Economic Development is locally-based economic development activity advocated by or originating in the community and which benefits the community in the creation and maintenance of jobs, housing, equity growth, business opportunities, and accessible goods and services. Lack of access to legal services should never be an impediment to a community seeking to participate or have a voice in its own development.
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