Do Good Campus Fund

Answer the following questions in no more than 1 page, single spaced, size 11 Arial font:

• What issue will you address with this grant funding?
• What will you do to address the issue?
• What is your expected impact?
• What is your (or your team’s) unique ability to make an impact on this issue?
• How will you incorporate an inclusive approach to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging?
• What makes your project innovative or creative? 

This statement of support could be a brief document or an email. No more than a paragraph is required. Please submit the statement in the application portal as a PDF. The statement of support for faculty and staff could be from your your Dean, VP, department chair, or supervisor. For student groups, it could be a faculty/staff mentor, advisor, or partner.

The statement of support should include the following:

• The author’s credentials and their relationship to you.
• Their support for your proposal.
• Their belief in your ability to deliver on this proposal if you are awarded funding.

If you are applying for a Type 1 grant, you will be asked to submit a short narrative about how you will use the funding.

In no more than 250 words, please describe:

• How you will know if your project has been successful.
• Quantitative and/or qualitative metrics you will use to measure your impact.
• The method you will use to collect the data.

In no more than 100 words, please describe a few important components of your project that connect to your overall goals, and at what point in time you expect the important components to be completed.

For example, if your goal is to build a house:

• January 2024: Permits secured
• March 2024: Frame constructed
• May 2024: Construction completed

Answer the following questions in no more than 1 page, single spaced, size 11 Arial font:

• What issue will you address with this grant funding?
• What will you do to address the issue?
• What is your expected impact?
• What is your (or your team’s) unique ability to make an impact on this issue?
• How will you incorporate an inclusive approach to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging?
• What makes your project innovative or creative?

This statement of support could be a brief document or an email. No more than a paragraph is required. Please submit the statement in the application portal as a PDF. The statement of support for faculty and staff could be from your Dean, VP, department chair or supervisor.

The statement of support should include the following:

• The author’s credentials and their relationship to you.
• Their support for your proposal.
• Their belief in your ability to deliver on this proposal if you are awarded funding.

Applicants are encouraged to craft budgets that fit their goals, with no set restrictions on the types or amounts of budget components. Applicants are welcome, but not expected to supplement requested amounts with their own budgetary resources. 

If you are applying for a Type 2 or 3 grant ($5,001-$50,000), your budget should include all resources (personnel and material) required to complete your project. 

We encourage you to use this budget template (link to spreadsheet). Make a copy of the file and follow the instructions on the first tab of the file. Faculty and staff completing a detailed budget will need to work with the business manager or grant management staff for their unit (i.e., College School, Office, or Division) to effectively plan the budget for this project. Detailed instructions are in the Faculty/Staff Budget Guidelines and Eligibility tab, below.

We require having a single lead applicant identified but of course encourage applications from teams. Faculty and staff must initiate this process by collaborating with the business manager or grant management staff for their unit (i.e., College School, Office, or Division) to effectively plan the budget for this project. They will be able to offer valuable assistance in the planning phase and aid in anticipating needs as well as providing guidance of standard operating procedures in the unit of the lead applicant. 

Applicants for $5,000 grants are required to provide a budget narrative but do not submit a detailed budget. Expenses must comply with your unit’s standard operating procedures. All projects must be initiated by the Summer or Fall of 2024 at the latest and are required to begin spending funds within six months of receiving the notice to proceed. Each grant has an expiration date of June 30, 2025. 

Below is additional information to clarify questions related to funding eligibility and to assist with the budget planning for applications requesting $5,001-$50,000. 

• Construct your budget to indicate the first and last month that will incur expenses.
• Allowable expenditures include personnel support requests, which may include stipends for existing UMD community members, temporary positions, hourly graduate and undergraduate student support, and other direct expenses related to project-specific development needs.
  • Personnel
    • Proposals should provide details about the responsibilities assigned to each team member, including students if relevant, and demonstrate how their collaborative effort will further the work proposed. 
    • Stipends for faculty and staff can be budgeted up to $5,000 per semester per individual or the equivalent of $15,000 over the course of a year. Collaborators' stipends may vary based on their level of involvement. Individuals have the option to participate in multiple teams, but they can only receive a stipend from one Do Good Campus Fund grant. Additionally, the proposed budget must include prorated fringe benefits.
      • Exact details of disbursement is dependent on appointment type. Refer to your payroll experts for guidance. Generally, faculty and staff stipends are processed as nonteaching overloads via nonstandard pay or summer pay for faculty if the work proposed is above and beyond your current workload with the approval of your unit. 
    • Hourly pay for students (both graduate and undergraduate) must adhere to the unit’s or program’s stipulated rates per University policies. Pro-rated fringe benefits must be factored into the budget. 
  • Other Direct Costs
    • Professional development;
    • Travel expenses;
    • Food and event costs, except alcohol;
    • Miscellaneous. 
• Grant work may commence immediately upon the application's approval and the creation of the account. Funding for the project will be expected to be applied the first week of July.  

• The funds will be allocated through the lead applicant’s home unit and placed in a unique KFS account. The home unit will manage payments to team members, cover other expenditures and maintain records. 
• Upon the awarding of grants, we will work to establish a series of dedicated accounts in KFS with an Education and General (E&G) fund type. Each grant recipient will receive an exclusive account number specifically for their grant. All financial transactions associated with the grant must take place within this designated account; salary and expense transfers should be limited to the extent possible. This approach is designed to facilitate accurate reporting for this key strategic initiative.
• The Do Good Institute and Academic Affairs will work with the relevant business managers to ensure the appropriate account features are incorporated. CBOs will receive a spreadsheet containing the comprehensive list of awardees for their respective College/School, along with access to the proposals, budgets, and award letters on Google Drive.
• The full award amount for each grant recipient will be distributed in advance to the distinct KFS account assigned to that grant. The business manager can anticipate receiving the funds shortly after the account setup and will be responsible for ensuring that expenses align as closely as possible with the budget proposal. 
• Any remaining funds, should there be any, will be returned to the Do Good Institute upon the conclusion of the project or the end of FY2025. Requests for potential no-cost extensions beyond this deadline, limited to 6 months, may be evaluated in exceptional situations, but approval is not guaranteed.
• The funds transferred will be in accordance with the budget outlined by the lead applicant, a process that will be verified during the selection process. Proposals may receive full or partial funding, and in the case of partial funding, a budget note will be included in the award letter to provide clarification.
• Goods acquired through this Initiative will be retained as the property of UMD.
• Furthermore, we kindly seek permission to reach out to the grantee for a period of up to two years following the project's completion for updates and communication.

In no more than 250 words, please describe:

• How you will know if your project has been successful.
• Quantitative and/or qualitative metrics you will use to measure your impact.
• The method you will use to collect the data.

In your application, please list the milestones that connect logically to your goals and expected impact. In no more than 250 words, please work backwards from your expected impact to present a bullet-point roadmap that identifies chronological milestones on the way to project completion and success. 

For example, if you are building a house in 6 months, then your milestones might be: 

• Month 1 - Lay the Foundation 
• Month 2 - Build the Frame
• Month 3 - Install plumbing & electrical

How will you continue the project after this Campus Fund grant is spent? For example, can it be self-sustainable with existing resources or other expected resources after the grant? Will you apply for additional funding from this or other grant programs in the future? Will the effort be sustained through other funding mechanisms? Can the project generate revenue to be self-sustainable? Are you planning any fundraising activities?

The Do Good Learning Principles are: experiential, inclusive, innovative, social impact-oriented and in service of humanity. The Change the World exhibit provides leading examples of student groups advancing these principles. Additionally, the Do Good Campus Fund will help significantly advance the University of Maryland’s Fearlessly Forward strategic plan. 

• Applications are welcome from University of Maryland, College Park, student groups, individual full-time faculty and staff, and teams of University of Maryland, College Park, faculty, staff, and/or student groups. Teams may be interdisciplinary, multi-unit, and/or multi-school/college.
• Alumni and part-time faculty and staff of the University of Maryland, College Park, are not eligible to apply for the Fund.
• Applicants not affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park, are not eligible to apply for the Fund.

Yes, applicants may collaborate with part-time faculty/staff and/or public, private, and/or nonprofit stakeholders outside of the University of Maryland, as long as the applicant(s) themself(ves) is/are student groups and/or full-time faculty/ staff from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Student groups do not need to be officially recognized by the Student Government Association in order to apply. However, successful student group applicants will need to be well positioned to sustain a grant process that will span at least two academic years (the application period during the 2023-2024 academic year and the award/ impact period during the 2024-2025 academic year).

The lead applicant is the individual submitting the application form through the Wizehive online application portal. For team applications, this needn’t be the individual contributing all or even a majority of the effort for the project, but it must be someone directly involved in the project who is a full-time staff, faculty, or student at the University of Maryland, College Park campus.

It can, but it doesn’t have to. While the origin of an eligible project must be a University of Maryland-based full-time faculty, staff, and/or student group, their scale of impact is unlimited. A successful project’s impact may be local, global, or anything in between.

No. Applications will be considered holistically in terms of their potential for fulfilling the Do Good Learning Principles. We offer applicants the option of noting additional sources of funding in their application if they wish, but do not require or encourage it. (Applications will not be penalized whether they do or not note matching funds.) In any case, we ask that an applicant’s budget clearly indicate how they will spend the funding specifically requested under this grant.

While we cannot anticipate the guidelines for future years of the Do Good Campus Fund, we expect successful applicants may be able to re-apply in future years with an appreciably different request for funding or to scale up a project funded in this round.

The purpose of the Do Good Campus Fund is to support and enhance a variety of academic programs and co-curricular approaches to social impact across campus and to enable any full-time faculty and staff or student group to scale their social impact.

See this link to learn more about the Do Good Campus Council.

Applicants may serve as a lead or supporting applicant on as many projects as they wish. If their applications are competitive, the Selection Committee will likely reach out during the screening process to ensure they have the capacity to successfully execute multiple projects.