Some Californians having difficulty accessing health care and health-related services will have free help each summer from a UC Davis law student, thanks to a $25,000 grant from The California Endowment, the state's largest health foundation. The student-run King Hall Legal Foundation at UC Davis is using the grant to establish the Public Interest Health Law Internship Program. The program will provide a $3,900 stipend each summer to a first- or second-year law student for about 400 hours of work as a legal intern at a community-based advocacy organization. "The King Hall Legal Foundation is excited to start a program that will provide annual internships to students in public interest health law for many years to come," says Tiffany King, co-chair of the foundation. "The California Endowment is pleased to provide funding for this program that will serve as a pathway for these students into the field of health advocacy," says Joel Diringer, health policy advisor for the endowment. For more than 20 years, the King Hall Legal Foundation has raised funds to provide fellowships to first- and second-year law students who work as summer legal interns with public interest organizations in California, across the United States and abroad. Each year, it awards a total of $20,000 to $30,000 to support the work of seven to 10 students. The foundation will hold its 23rd annual spring fund-raising auction at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center on campus March 3. The California Endowment was established in 1996 to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. It makes grants to organizations and institutions that directly benefit the health and well-being of the people of California.