Funding Sources for faculty-student interaction (Faculty only):
Student-Faculty Interaction Funds

Student research conference, academic travel, and summer research support:
Faculty Sponsored Student Travel
Summer Research

Student programming on campus and co-curricular conference/travel off-campus support:
President's Sustainability Fund
Community Interaction Funds
Public Events Committee
ASPC Funding

Emergency funding support for students:
Emergency funding is available for students in the form of loans and/or grants from the Dean of Students Office.

Dean of Students Office Emergency Grants
McCann Emergency Loans

Academic or curriculum funding support for students:
Office of Financial Aid

Off-campus community engagement funding:
Community Interaction Funds
Grants from the Draper Center for Community Partnerships


Student-Faculty Interaction Funds (Faculty only)
Funds are available for faculty to use on faculty-student interaction events. Please fill out the Student-Faculty Interaction Form and return it along with original receipts and a list of attendees to Rebecca Rosales, Alexander 102 (ext. 73615).

Faculty Sponsored Student Travel
The Dean of Students Office may also contribute to academic student travel support. Students should submit their proposals to the Dean of the College’s office first. The Dean of the College had up to $15,000 to distribute in 2007-08.

Summer Research
Summer research grants are provided by the Office of the Dean of the College.

President's Sustainability Fund
The President’s Sustainability Fund is a $15,000 annual fund (approved on a yearly basis) for sustainability programs on campus. Focused on technology and infrastructural change instead of events or programming, this fund provides resources for student-oriented campus projects that will reduce the College’s environmental impact. Recently funded projects include the checkout drying racks and compost buckets, and the SolTrain mobile solar station. For more information, contact the Sustainability Integration Office at sustainability@pomona.edu.

Community Interaction Funds
The Community Interaction Fund in the Dean of Students Office provides funding for the following purposes:

   •Speakers or programs on campus
   •Co-curricular conferences off-campus
   •Academic conferences off-campus (students should first apply to the funds for         academic conferences under Faculty Sponsored Student Travel; Community Interaction Funds usually only used to supplement, if need be, funding from the Dean of the College’s office)
   •Community service projects

There is approximately $20,000 in funds for 2009-10.  Grants for student travel and conferences can range from $50 to $250, and grants for programs and projects can range from $50 to $300. 
To apply for Community Interaction Funding, please email the proposal to Dean Feldblum at miriam.feldblum@pomona.edu and copy studentaffairs@pomona.edu. The proposal should contain the following information:

   •Purpose of conference, speaker, etc.
   •A brief paragraph on how it will benefit you and how it fits in with what you are doing  on campus. If it is an off-campus event, also include what you will bring back to campus, and how it can benefit others on campus.
   •A brief report on the event.
   •An estimate of your expenditures and any other sources of funding (this includes funding from other offices on-campus).

For any funding we provide, we also ask you to provide a copy of your total actual expenditures and copies of receipts (not just for the portion that we give). This can be emailed to studentaffairs@pomona.edu.

Dean of Students Office
Requests for emergency funding that involve non-academic-related needs (e.g., emergency medical, dental, vision expenses, unanticipated trip home due to a family emergency, etc) can be directed to the Dean of Students Office. Emergency funding is available in the form of loans (available both to students on financial aid and not on financial aid), and in certain circumstances in the form of grants (usually only available to students in the highest need tiers), or a combination of loan and grant.

McCann Emergency Loans
Short-term emergency loans are available to Pomona students needing small amounts of money, usually $500 or less. Loans should be repaid within the semester. Students needing loans should go to the Dean of Students Office, Alexander Hall 102.

Office of Financial Aid
All requests for funding that involve academic or curriculum-related needs (i.e. lab fees, course fees, computer expenses) should be requested through the Office of Financial Aid.

Grants from the Draper Center for Community Partnerships
For more information about grants, please visit the website for the Draper Center's Community Engagement funding.