leadership retreat: funding and programming ideas

The Latino Stimulus Plan Funding Your Organization

Sources of Funding• Academic Departments• Provost’s Office• Office of the Dean of Students • Program Houses and Residential Houses• Minority Finance Commission• SAFC• Grants

Academic DepartmentsAcademic departments may sponsor student organization

activities. Contact the chair of the department from which you are seeking funding.

Latino Studies Program

Director: Sofia Villenas (sav33@cornell.edu)

Program Administrator: Marti Dense (mfd1@cornell.edu)

Provost’s Office• Provost- Kent Fuchs

provost@cornell.edu

• Administrative Manager- Patty Ardpma2@cornell.edu

• Administrative Assistant to the Provost (Provost's Calendar) Christine Heslopclh7@cornell.edu

Office of the Dean of Students• International Student Program Board (ISPB)• Cornell United Religious Work• African, Latino, Native American Programming Board

(ALANA) • Haven (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender

(LGBTQ)) • One Vision, Many Voices • Peer Educator in Human Relations (PEHR) • Women’s Resource Center • WSH Programming Board

ISPB• Awards up to $400 per event• Deadline: 14 days before event takes place• Benefits: can be used towards food and re-usable

costumes; can apply twice per semester• Restrictions: event cannot be profited from

ALANA• Two types of funding:

– Co-sponsorship awards up to $700– Co-partnership awards more than $700, must be planned in

conjunction with ALANA e-board and another org

• Deadline: – 2 weeks from co-sponsored events– 4 weeks from co-partnered events

• Benefits: has more money to give away than other sources; advertisement and planning shared responsibilities

• Restrictions: can only apply once per semester for either; new policies being put in place due to budget restraints

WSH Student Programming Board

• Awards up to $500 per event• Deadline: 30 days before event• Benefits: funds late night events; funds up to 2 events

per year• Restrictions: event must take place in WSH or on Ho

Plaza; if publicity is lax, funding will be reduced; preference to free events; no profits can be made

Cornell Concert Commission• Awards up to $500 per event• Deadline: Three weeks before event• Benefits: funds musical acts• Restrictions: must present to the E-board & G-body;

MFC• Awards up to $500 per event• Deadline: 2 weeks before event• Benefits: will fund transportation • Restrictions:

CU Tonight• Awards up to $5,000 per event• Deadline: Sept. 15 for events occurring this semester

after October 15 but before December 4th• Benefits: designed to fund events for over 250 people• Restrictions: all paperwork must be completed at time

of application submission (i.e. UUP, price quotes, venue RSVP, etc); very competitive and limited funds; only late night events

SAFC• Awards vary for registered student organizations • Deadlines: For Fall

– Online application due Sept. 11 – Supplemental forms due Sept. 15

• Benefits: funds can be used for entire semester budget; can apply for “Special Project Funding” after deadline; funds can be used for meeting costs, engagement fees up to $3,000, travel expenses to conferences, etc., organization materials that can be re-used or kept on campus for subsequent years

• Restrictions: Greek orgs do not qualify; very early submission deadline

Program Houses/Residential Halls

• Program Houses– Just About Music (JAM) – Ujamaa Residential College – Latino Living Center – Ecology House – Multicultural Living Learning Unit (McLLU Center) – Akwe:kon – Holland International Living Center – Risley Residential College for Creative and Performing Arts – The Transfer Center – Language House and Program

• Residential Houses– Alice Cook House – Carl Becker House

Grants

–Cornell Council for the Arts–Community Partnership Board–James A. Perkins Prize for Racial

Understanding & Harmony–Bartels Award

Yeah, but how do we ensure we’re going to get the money?

Co-sponsorships

Some tips…• Networking• Innovation • Using past successes• Event Calendar• Outside of the Latino community…