The GSA provides funding to graduate student organizations for various activities that benefit the graduate student body.

GSA Enrichment Grant

The GSA Enrichment Grant sponsors broad-based educational, cultural, or service projects proposed by members of the Rice University community and is open to all graduate student participation. Four Enrichment Grants will be given each fiscal year with a maximum of one thousand dollars ($1000) of funding per award.

Graduate Student Activity Grant

The Graduate Student Activity Grant (GSAG) will provide supplementary funding for social events that may not be able to accommodate all graduate students. The GSAG will have a maximum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per award (one award per event) and the number of awards will be left to the discretion of the Grant Committee.

Eligibility: All Rice graduate students, undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and campus organizations may submit proposals.

Grants will be considered at GSA Council only at one of the following GSA Council meetings: August, October, December, February, April, June. The deadline for grant submissions is 12:00 am on August 1, October 1, December 1, February 1, April 1, and June 1 respectively in order to give the grant committee enough time to consider the applications.

Other Grants Available on Campus

There are additional grants available for the purpose of student-led activities or projects. See the following sites for more information:

GSA Community Service Funding

Student Activities list of available grants

CIC Community Service Grant

Proposal Procedure:

1) Submit proposal to the Grant Committee via the online submission form on the GSA website. Please submit only one grant request per event. Note that the deadlines for submission are 12:00 am August 1, October 1, December 1, February 1, March 1, June 1 for a grant application to be considered at the August, October, December, February, March and June meetings respectively.

2) Answer any questions / address any suggestions from the Grant Committee. Notification of Grant Committee approval/denial should be received after one week of submission.

3) Send a representative from the party submitting the proposal to the GSA Council meeting. A representative MUST be present for the approval vote to be conducted. If a representative is not present at the meeting, the proposal will be denied.

4) The GSA Council will vote on each request presented to it by the Grant Committee every other GSA Council meeting starting in August (Fall: August, October, December; Spring: February, April, June). Grant requests must be submitted BOTH before the first of the month of the same month's GSA Council meeting and before the event. A majority vote of the GSA Council is needed to approve any grant proposal.

5) Upon GSA Council approval, funding will be provided on a reimbursment basis pending that GSA received the following:

• Post event evaluation filled out and submitted via email to GSA Internal VP to be reviewed by the Grant Committee
• Original receipts and invoices for services/fees paid