Fall Grant Application Process

2025 Fall Mini-Grant Application 

Steps to Apply

Open the Mini-Grant Cover Page and make copies of the Cover Page and all attachments to complete your application. Submit the completed application via email by the application deadline - October 24, 2025, at 5 PM PST. Project leaders must (1) ensure that all Project Attachments are viewable, and (2) have attended a TGIF Info-Session orTGIF 1:1 to be considered for funding. 

Failure to meet with the TGIF Team, provide all application materials, or update document sharing settings may disqualify your application. 

Mini-Grant Application Materials

1.  Mini-Grant Cover Page: This file contains the basic information about your project and links to all the other required application materials. Please complete all sections, paying attention to the Sponsoring Organization/Fiscal Agent Information. Unsure about formatting? See our Example Fall 2024 Application. 

2.  Project Narrative: This required project attachment tells the story of your application, and provides information about your project's history, timeline, and how you plan to measure success. Please stay within the 3-page limit and follow our formatting guidelines. 

3.  Project Budget: This required project attachment shows how you plan to spend your funds through the duration of your project. 

4.  Project Approval Form: A Project Approval Form is needed for each partner organization, department, or entity that will be a meaningful contributor to your project team, as well as for each entity that will need to provide approval for your project to be successful. Approximately 70% of TGIF Projects require at least one Project Approval Form. 

5.  Environmental Justice Supplement:  TGIF offers priority to projects that meaningfully integrate environmental justice into their project scope. If you would like to apply for Environmental Justice consideration, you must complete the Environmental Justice Supplement. Projects that submit an Environmental Justice Supplement may be designated as an 'EJ Project' and provide priority consideration after review by the TGIF Committee Environmental Justice At-Large Representative, in consultation with the SERC Environmental Justice Team and TGIF staff. Please see our FAQ for more information about EJ and SERC. 

Mini-Grant Application Example and Support

TGIF offers our Funded Project Archive, which can provide guidance and support for applicants as to what kind of projects TGIF has funded in the past, as well as archival project applications. Please note that the TGIF Application has changed through the years, as have the needs of our campus community around sustainability and environmental justice.

As an additional resource, TGIF has also created an EXAMPLE 2024 TGIF Fall Mini-Grant. Please be aware that this mini-grant is based off of a previously-funded TGIF project, and has not been reviewed nor voted on as a mini-grant by the TGIF Committee. This example is meant to guide formatting and grant structuring changes, as well as provide some guidance as to narrative answer length.