Please note that these are only general funding guidelines provided so as to provide an idea of what is (or is not) likely to be funded by RSG. These guidelines will be used by the RSG Budgetary Committee and RSG as a whole in making decisions on funding requests. Each request will ultimately be considered on its own individual merits.

Requests which are awarded funds are expected to submit original receipts to the budgetary committee no later than 120 days after the funded event. Receipts obtained pass this date are not guaranteed refunds. RSG will refund receipts up to, but not over, the original promised level of funding.

• Academic events

• Cultural events

• Proposals that are well written with a detailed budget, including expenses and expected/secured income

• Events which are public and held on campus

• Community service events involving or benefiting graduate students

• Projects that may need start-up funds but which will become self-sustaining

• Events that involve more than 100 graduate students and/or have at least 25% graduate student participation

• Proposals from groups that have received funding once the same semester or twice an academic year

• Proposals with non-itemized budgets

• Parties

• Food or alcohol

• Honoraria

• Events not open or easily accessible to the entire UM community

• Publications which do not positively impact the UM community

• Events in our judgment that should be receiving funds from some other obvious, appropriate source

• Club sports

• Proposals from social fraternities or sororities

• Proposals from lobbyists

• RSG will NOT fund any event intended for participation by the entire graduate student body if that event is scheduled for a day that is identified as a major holiday on the calendar of University sanctioned holidays.

• Proposals from individual students seeking funding for events that are not recognized by the University as legitimate student groups (i.e. recipients of an SOAS Account #), such as dissertation defenses or presentations

Request Funding for your Group

Please fill out and submit the form below (Microsoft Word document) after reading the guidelines mentioned above  by emailing it to the Treasurer.

RSG will contact you regarding the status of your request and if you will be expected to make a presentation. Bring 5 (five) hard copies of this proposal with you to the meeting you are attending. Any questions should be addressed to the Treasurer.

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