GCAP Grant Application 2025-26

Mission: The Green Campus Action Plan aims to provide undergraduate students with the financial resources to pursue sustainability-based projects on the University of California, Riverside campus. By taking ownership of our impact on the planet and our community, we - as students - can begin to tackle climate and sustainability issues at a college level and apply those lessons throughout our future careers. And by learning from Indigenous climate scholars who write about time as kinship, we also spread the message that climate solutions do not come at the expense of people’s livelihoods and environmental injustice. The environment and its people are interwoven.

Information: The GCAP Green Grant supplies student organizations with up to $4,000 in funding for environmental conservation/sustainability projects. However, applicants are welcome to request more funds, and the GCAP Committee will assess whether a budget of more than $4,000 can be provided.
We encourage undergraduate student clubs and organizations from all majors, backgrounds, and career goals to engage in sustainability initiatives and education within their own spheres of influence, and to apply for the GCAP Green Grant in helping them achieve their sustainability goals and initiatives. 

Eligibility For Consideration:

• Must be an undergraduate UCR student organization/club/internship/fellowship
• Must have a supervising advisor/professional staff member and department sponsoring the project 
• Include a complete purchasing list with the following information:
  • Quantity requested for each item
  • The cost of each item and total cost (cost x quantity)
  • Accurate links to each item
  • Description of item, including why it is being used for your project, and its benefits to the environment 
• Must have members of the organization (board/executive/general, whoever you prefer) present your Green Grant request in front of the GCAP Committee via zoom at our designated meeting times

Non-eligibility For Consideration: 

• Items such as merch (t-shirts, stickers, totebags) as part of the purchase list. 
• Giveaway or incentive items in bulk that do not contribute to sustainability in any shape or form.
• General, non-vegan, and non-vegetarian food orders or catering for events.
• An organization that has previously misused funds.
• Green Grant applications that would be sufficient to be passed through ASUCR Finance Committee, and that have no sustainability/environmental component.
• Any project that requires purchasing and outsourcing of labor through third-party workers or vendors.

Process: 

1. Submit your application in its entirety before the quarterly deadline. If any part of your application is not complete, you will not be able to proceed to the next steps. Please make sure you meet all eligibility requirements.
2. You will receive an email from either Anahita Hooshyari far (ahoos003@ucr.edu) or Rahma Ahmed (rahme023@ucr.edu) inviting you to join our committee meeting with specific instructions.
3. Present at the GCAP committee meeting at your designated time (usually within a week or two after your application submission). The committee will ask questions about your presentation and review your requested purchase list.
4. A vote will be conducted by the committee after the presentation to determine if your organization will receive funding, partial funding, or none. 
5. If you receive the grant by a majority committee vote, your request will be forwarded to the ASUCR Senate for ratification for the following week’s Senate meeting.
6. If it is approved at Senate, our Financial Operations Manager, Amy Carrizosa, will reach out to you with details on how to make purchases using your grant funding.

Fall Timeline for Funding: 

*ASUCR Senate is not planned to meet on Wed, November 26 due to the succeeding holiday.