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Project Grant Application

Submitted by august on Fri, 2005-12-02 02:15.


The Secular Student Alliance provides many kinds of support to its student affiliates. Among the kinds of support are grants for operations and projects.

There are some basic requirements for all grant applicants:
  • Your group must be an affiliate of the SSA.
  • Your group must have a constitution or charter.
  • Unless you are at a parochial school, your group must have official recognition by your school.
  • Your group must have a bank account in your group's name so that we can write the grant check to your group.
If you do not meet one or more of these requirements, please tell us and we will be delighted to assist you and work with you.

Typical grants from the Secular Student Alliance to its affiliates range from $100 to $200 for specific projects. We do occasionally give larger grants after we have developed a relationship with a particular affiliate. All grant proposals are reviewed by the Secular Student Alliance Grant Committee which is chaired by the Senior Campus Organizer. Grant requests are reviewed as they arrive.

For additional funding, we encourage students to apply for grants from national freethought organizations, your university, and local adult supporters in your area. If you would like help with getting access to any of these organizations, please let us know. We want to help you.

Please review our mission and our core values. The more in line with our mission and values a project is, the more likely we are to fund it.

Please submit your application no less than 30 days before you need the money. The more advanced notice, the better.

The Secular Student Alliance requires that all grant recipients submit a written report to the Grant Committee. This report must include the following information:
  • Your group and school name
  • Your project-including event dates
  • A 400-700 word summary of the event, including how the funds were allocated, and the benefit of the event to your group
  • Number of names added to your official membership and/or mailing list
  • Number of students in attendance-this does not have to be a firm head-count, and can be an estimation.
  • Pictures-although not required, providing pictures are strongly encouraged.
All grants are approved with the understanding that all reports will be submitted no later than a month after the date of the event. These reports may be published in our monthly eNews-the eMprical.

Name of Organization:
Campus:
Name of Filer:
Contact information for discussing this proposal:
Street line 1:
Street line 2:
City:
State:
Zip:
Email :
Phone:
Web site of organization:
Number of members in organization:
Date organization was founded:
Constitution - either cut and paste it into the text block, or give us the URL of your constitution on your web site.
Project name:
Start date of project:
End date of project:
Description of the project (no more than 500 words, shorter is better):
Goals for the project:
What influence do you expect the project to have?
Your Capacity: Please let us know if your group has executed a project like this before. If not, what have you done? What steps are you taking to make sure the project is successful? If this is for a public event, please include your plan to promote the event with a timeline.
Cooperating parties: Who else is providing money for the project? Are other organizations participating in the project itself?
Project Budget:
Total project cost:$
Amount requested from SSA:$
Prove you are a human: What does one plus two equal?
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