GSEF Project Funding Recipients: Fall 2010

GSEF Project Funding Recipients: Fall 2010

The GSEF has announced the Fall 2010 winners for project funding!

Initially, 31 applications were received after the deadline extension (four made the deadline). At the first review meeting, 15 were rejected. We discussed the various projects and what additional information was required to decide how to allocate the funds. The Coordinator also looked into which groups were funded in the past and calculated refund rates for each group that applied (the idea is to try not to support a group that is not contributing to this fund).

Over the next few weeks, we compiled additional details (checking other funding situations, conducted site visits, etc) and disseminated this information electronically.

We met for a second time and decided on the fund allocations, with six projects being rejected at this stage (some were entirely rejected while others we recommended to reapply next term because some details needed to be worked out).

We then discussed the applications, and arrived at the final totals seen above.

In several cases, the final amount award was less than the amount originally applied for (example reasons: some aspects deemed less crucial to the project than others, we don’t fund unnecessary items like “gifts for speakers”, etc).