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Finance - Non-Front End Budgeting (FEB) Organizations

Types of funding available for official JMU student groups

  • Contingency
  • Program Grants
  • Front End Budgeting

For more information download the powerpoint here.

Contingency

As a club or organization on campus, you may want to hold an event that will require funding. As a non-FEB organization, your main source of funding will be accumulated through your own fundraising. If you have exhausted all means of fundraising and still come up short, you have the ability to apply for "emergency" money, known as contingency, from SGA.

Download the following documents to learn more about requirements, stipulations and the process:

Contingency Power Point - A general overview
Contingency Details

If you are ready to apply, download the following forms and be sure to set up a meeting with the SGA Contingency Liaison, Charles Shaw!

Contingency Request Workbook
W-9 Form

Program Grants

Program grants are large sums of money the SGA allocates twice a year to non-FEB groups on campus to put on programs. Program grants are approved at the end of each semester. Your group must request a program grant at least one semester before your planned program. The SGA requires that any student group that requests this funding be recognized and in good standing with Student Organization Services (SOS) for at least the previous 12 months. To learn more about program grants please download the power point presentation here.

If you are ready to apply, download and complete the following forms:

Program Grant Application
Program Grant Request Form
W-9 Form

Obtaining FEB Status

In order to become an FEB organization, a club must be recognized and in good standing with Student Organization Services for the previous 12 months. The group must attend the meeting of the SGA finance committee held 3 weeks before Thanksgiving and give a presentation showing it meets the following criteria:

  1. The group is so important that it must be budgeted on the front end versus contingency or program grants.
  2. There is no current formal form of funding for the group through a university department or national organization.
  3. The group appropriately uses its funding.
  4. No duplicate services are provided on campus through another Front-End Budgeted group or university department.
  5. Continual fundraising would keep the group from fulfilling its mission.
  6. The group has been a SOS-recognized club in good standing for the previous 12 months.

*FEB status is renewed in the fall of even numbered years.

For more information contact the SGA Executive Treasurer, Robert Burden.