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List of Funds

Fund Status Fund Name Description Fund Establishment
Active Diversity Fund Request Diversity Request Fund is for events promoting Diversity in the Graduate Student Population at UCSD. 2010-10-04
Active Academic & Professional Fund The Academic Fund is designed to fund intradepartmental academic colloquia. Funding proposals may include requests for honoraria or travel for speakers, and/or refreshments for events. 2010-02-10
Active Early Request Fund Early Request Funds are available during the summer months (July - September). 2010-02-10
Active Family Friendly Fund

The Family Friendly Fund is designed to provide funding for family-oriented graduate student events.

The Grad Parents Network is an organization that meets monthly and organizes events for the grad parent community and is generally funded from this fund.

Any graduate student can request funding.

 2010-02-10
Active General Fund

This money is for interdepartmental social, cultural, academic, and professional events as well as other activities of interest to graduate or professional students.

  • Any registed gradute or professional student organization may request money from this fund.
  • Events funded with GRF funds should be open and free to all graduate and professional students.
 Active
Active Lounge Improvement Fund What kind of requests are sponsored by the Lounge Improvement Fund?
The Lounge Improvement Fund is intended to provide graduate students with funds for one-time purchases beneficial to the graduate students of the department requesting. Recent purchases have included lamps, couches, refrigerators, and computers. Consumable items and improvements to buildings (paint, electrical outlets/fixtures, carpet, and etc.) will not be funded. Monies are limited and requests will be funded in the order first come, first served. The Lounge Improvement Fund is available to departments in a loose rotation and departments that have received LIF funds during the fiscal year should not reapply the next year. All hardware, furniture, and appliances which are purchased remain the property of the GSA.

Who may request funding?
Requests for monies from the Lounge Fund must be submitted by at least one of the department's regular representatives to the Council.

When are requests due? When is money from this fund available?
Monies from this fund can be requested between the first finance committee meeting of the year and the second to last finance committee meeting (TBD). Any requests for reimbursement regarding money allocated from this fund must be turned in by May 30th.		 2010-02-10