leadership retreat: funding and programming ideas
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Funding Tips and Programming IdeasTRANSCRIPT
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 ([email protected])
Program Administrator: Marti Dense ([email protected])
Provost’s Office• Provost- Kent Fuchs
• Administrative Manager- Patty [email protected]
• Administrative Assistant to the Provost (Provost's Calendar) Christine [email protected]
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…