Student Initiative Grants help provide funding for innovative campus-based Jewish programming. Grants are awarded by the Student Initiatives Committee, which is composed of Jewish student leaders and volunteers from around North America.

Criteria
In addition to the general grant criteria, the Student Initiatives Committee requires that projects meet the following criteria:

• Proposals, initiatives and evaluations must be initiated, developed, implemented and written by students
• Initiatives must be creative, innovative and new or significantly different from previous programming done on the applicant's campus
• Initiative must demonstrate strong interactive components, engaging participants in experiential ways.
• For shabbatonim or retreats, initiatives must exhibit strong pluralistic components, dialogue or exploration.

Funding is not offered for:

• A replication of a regularly scheduled program on your campus
• Pre-packaged programs (Fees paid to people or organizations outside of Hillel who run the entire program)
• Fundraisers

Funding
The Committee is unable to fund all of the proposals it receives. Grants are awarded for amounts up to $2,000 (the vast majority of grants are awarded in amounts of $1,000 or less).

Encouragement Grants up to $1,000

Encouragement Grants are designed to support programs that are student initiated and implemented.

Irving and Sarah Pitt Campus Creativity Grants up to $2,000

Applications for Irving and Sarah Pitt Grants should exceed the guidelines for Encouragement Grants. Pitt Grants are allocated in sums up to $2,000. The Committee awards these grants to innovative projects which distinguish themselves among all other.

Allocation Process
Upon approval of the proposal, half of the allocated funds will be awarded immediately. The remaining funds will be awarded following:

• The completion of the funded project
• The submission of program evaluation to Hillel's Program Exchange

Any unspent funds allocated by the committee must be returned.

If the Revised Budget form indicates that all awarded funds were not spent, only the amount spent will be allocated.

Checks will be issued to Hillels or appropriate organizations only and will not be issued to individuals.

Evaluation
You must submit the program to Hillel's Program Exchange within one month of the completion of the program.

Publicity
All materials and publicity must state that funding for the project has been made possible by: The Student Initiatives Committee of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.

Deadlines
There will be six rounds of grant applications. Events must take place after the decision notification date for the round in which you applied. No programs will be funded retroactively. Decisions for each round will be announced by e-mail by the decision notification date. Only projects planned for the 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 school years will be considered. Proposals must be submitted on time.

• September 12, 2005 (notification on September 29)
• October 21, 2005 (notification on November 8)
• January 16, 2006 (notification on February 2)
• February 13, 2006 (notification on March 8)
• March 13, 2006 (notification on March 30)
• April 10, 2006 (notification on April 27)

Applying for a grant
Applications for this grant are accepted on-line. You do not have to fill out the application all at once (you will be able to save in process and return), however we still recommend that you look at a blank application form before filling it out to make sure you have all the necessary information.

Application Session is Closed.

Questions? Contact
grants@hillel.org

Winning Examples
See examples of programs done by previous recipients of Student Initiatives Committee grants.