“…Sources for MLP financing typically include legal fellowships, federal, and state legal services dollars, project funding through Medicaid waivers, HRSA funding of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), hospital community benefit dollars, administrative line items, and, in the academic space, universities. 58 A 2019 national environmental scan found that the median MLP budget is a paltry $100,000 annually, typically cobbled together from multiple sources, which supports a median of 1.0 FTE of attorney time and 0.2 FTE of support staff. 59 Because of unreliable funding, MLPs may operate with a skeleton legal staff, which disrupts programmatic integrity in the same way that other aspects of philanthropy-driven social services frequently are forced to survive on a grant-togrant, competitive basis.…”