Funding: Graduate VSO Grants

About Us

GSC offers grant funding to graduate VSOs in order to:

  • Provide a broader educational and cultural experience for graduate students
  • Enhance interdepartmental social interaction among students
  • Strengthen the campus-wide sense of community among graduate students
  • Make the graduate school experience more valuable and enjoyable for all graduate students

If you have any questions about the funding process, please email the GSC Funding Committee at gsc-funding@assu.stanford.edu.

How to
Apply

  1.         Submit a funding application on GrantEd. Remember to choose ‘Graduate Student Council’ as your source of funding.
    • Add your event onto the GSC Funding Calendar.
    • Create an event on any email-based calendar and send an invite to us
    • The event should include a Date, Time, Location, short details blurb, and RSVP link (if applicable)
    • The submitting FO will receive funding request updates via email.
    • Contact us if you have not been contacted in over 1 week of submitting your funding request on GrantEd
    • For requests more than $1000, attend the GSC meeting on the Tuesday night following email confirmation that your funding request will be voted upon.
    • GSC Meetings are held on Tuesdays 6:30PM-8PM in EVGR B170.
    • Each VSO request will be reviewed, questioned, and voted on.

Timeline

VSOs must go through the standard process of requesting funding from the GSC Funding Committee, so that the Funding Committee's recommendation can be presented to the GSC in a timely manner. The GSC does not provide retroactive funding. The GSC is not responsible for any purchases made before funding is approved or for an event in which funding was not approved.

Please submit your funding request according to the below timelines to allow for sufficient time for (1) the GSC Funding Committee to review funding requests and work with financial officers to ensure funding requests are within guidelines, and (2) for the GSC to review and vote on funding requests. Funding requests must be submitted by Sunday 5pm to be voted on for that week's GSC meeting. Funding requests that are submitted outside of the below timelines are NOT guaranteed to be considered in time. Plan accordingly when preparing your funding requests.

Funding Request Categories

Funding Request Amount

Number of GSC Meetings
between submission and event

Food & drinks only

≤ $500

2 meetings before event date

Food & drinks only

> $500¹ ²

3 meetings before event date

All other requests

≤ $1000¹

3 meetings before event date

All other requests

> $1000¹ ²

4 meetings before event date

Notes:
¹All food requests >$500 require an invoice or quote attached in the line item of the funding request
²All requests > $1000 require attendance at a GSC meeting prior to approval.
³GSC meetings occur weekly during these academic quarters. Any requests made outside of these quarters (e.g., breaks in between quarters or Summer quarter) are subject to longer processing times. It is the VSO’s responsibility to plan accordingly and proactively reach out to ensure their request can be processed in time. Contact the funding committee if you have any timeline questions.

Eligibility

Your Group Must:

  1. Be a Voluntary Student Organization (VSO) registered with the Office of Student Engagement (previously SAL).
  2. Run events that are open to all graduate students, and anticipate at least 30% graduate versus undergraduate participation.
  3. NOT already receive any funds from GSC annual grants (or special fees). If the VSO has a Reserve fund, it must first be depleted before requesting additional funds.
  4. Complete all required training by OSE, including the banking workshops for Financial Officers (FOs).
  5. Comply with all relevant University policies.
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