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DISSCHOLARED Website Terms and Conditions: Help protect a youth-led organization IP!

Help protect a youth-led organization intellectual property

Posted February 25, 2023

Background & Context

DISSCHOLARED™ is an ed-tech program and platform powered by YesSheCanCampaign™ that helps students and families understand universities' and colleges' private scholarship policies and the practice of scholarship award displacement. Scholarship award displacement is one of the root causes contributing to the student loan debt crisis. Need-based recipients cannot use their private scholarship funds to fund their gap after federal, state, and institutional aid, as intended by private scholarship donors, causing many students to borrow more or drop out of college. Our goal is to ensure students and families will be able to make informed college and financial decisions. We are working to dismantle scholarship award displacement nationwide. Five states have outlawed this practice (MD, NJ, PA, WA, and CA). There is currently a federal bipartisan bill called The Helping Students Plan for College Act that addresses scholarship award displacement nationwide. According to a nationally representative survey conducted by Student Beans, at least 50% of U.S. college students who receive private scholarships experience scholarship displacement. This prevents students from making full use of the scholarships they have earned.


Immediate Problem

We need help with our website terms and conditions to ensure our intellectual property is protected, as well as other legal issues.

Work & Deliverables

Volunteer Lawyers will help with drafting the DISSCHOLARED website terms and conditions to help protect our intellectual property.


DISSCHOLARED™ is an ed-tech platform and program powered by YesSheCanCampaign that helps students and families understand higher institutions' private scholarship policies and the practice of scholarship award displacement. Scholarship award displacement is one of the root causes contributing to the student loan debt crisis. Need-based recipients cannot use their private scholarship funds to fund their gap after federal, state, and institutional aid, as intended by private scholarship donors, causing many students to borrow more or drop out of college. Our goal is to ensure that students and families will be able to make informed college and financial decisions. We are working to dismantle scholarship award displacement nationwide.

Project Plan

Preparation Phase

  • Schedule a background call with the organization
  • Sign volunteer agreement and return to the organization

Collaboration Phase

  • YesSheCanCampaign will send what we would like in our website terms and conditions
  • Create draft website terms and conditions
  • YesSheCanCampaign will review them and provide feedback
  • Final website terms and conditions are due

Wrap Up

  • Submit volunteer hours
  • Transfer website terms and conditions

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Additional Information

  • Time Commitment: 1-5 hours
  • Training Provided: Yes
  • Additional Training Details: All volunteers will receive training and will be matched with a supervisor. This opportunity is open to lawyers.
  • Site-Preference: Remote
  • Open to Law Students: No
  • Bar License(s) required: Any Bar License
  • Required Languages: None
  • Required Legal Expertise: Civil Rights, Corporate or Transactional Law, Education Law, Intellectual Property Law, Technology and Telecoms/Corporate
  • Deliverables Due: March 25, 2023
  • Mentoring Provided: No
  • Supervision Provided: Yes
YesSheCanCampaign

YesSheCanCampaign™ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that inspires young people to be extraordinary and change the world. YesSheCanCampaign has reached 4,000+ students, volunteered 25,000+ hours, and won six national awards and one international award. YesSheCanCampaign has helped students win over $1 million in educational funding. In 2019, the YesSheCanCampaign started a national campaign to dismantle scholarship award displacement. In 2021, YesSheCanCampaign launched DISSCHOLARED™, an award-winning ed-technology program, and platform that spreads awareness about scholarship award displacement.

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