Funding Grants for Student Organizations

Your student organization can apply for a grant petition by completing a short online application on BruinLink. Before you apply, make sure to read the Grant Petition Guidelines and SGA Finance Budget for more information regarding SGA funding for your student organization. you should plan attend a finance committee meeting to discuss your petition.

Important: Funding is prioritized towards campus involvement and interaction - impacting the greatest amount of students possible. There will be very limited funding granted for petitions that do not benefit the broader Belmont community.

FIRST STEPS - BEFORE THE COMMITTEE MEETING:

1. Apply on BruinLink! Student Leaders with managing abilities on your organization's page on BruinLink have access to the request application. Click your organization's icon on the left side of the page to open the organization tools menu- choose finance- on the top left choose create a request- and choose funding request- fill out all the required information and submit it to be reviewed.
2. Complete this Advisor Letter with your Faculty/Staff advisor before coming to the Finance Committee meeting. You can either hand the completed form to the SGA Treasurer at the committee meeting, or email it at the address below. Failure to get the completed Advisor Letter to the Treasurer within a week after your petition date will result in funding for the petition being withdrawn, no exceptions.
3. You will be in contact with the SGA Treasurer by email throughout this process, and will be given information of what to expect leading up the committee meeting.

NEXT STEPS - THE COMMITTEE MEETING AND BEYOND:

1. Come to the Finance Committee meeting. The SGA Treasurer will assign and email you a specific time that you need to be at the committee meeting - you can either come yourself, or send a representative of your organization to the meeting. The meetings are between 5-6pm on Thursdays.
2. Present your petition. Don’t be nervous about the word “present”. All we ask is for five minutes of you telling us about your petition. We don’t need a backstory on your organization, or a powerpoint - in fact, we prefer you don’t have them. The meeting is casual, so don’t feel you need to dress up either.
3. Answer some questions. The committee members may have a few questions about your petition. You don’t have to be worried - we are not here to interrogate you, we just want to know a bit more.
4. You are done! The SGA Treasurer will email you any funding decisions decided by the committee. The Treasurer files requests for checks every Thursday. If your petition is funded, it can take up to two weeks for requests to be processed in Belmont’s system. Once they have been processed, you will be notified that your check is ready!
5. All receipts/invoices must be given to the SGA Treasurer after the funding is spent. If this proof of spending does not equal the total of the grant given by SGA at the end of the year, all remaining funds must be given back to SGA. Failure to do so will prevent future funding by SGA.

Shehroze Malik
Student Body Treasurer

SGA@Belmont.edu