Strategies for Supporting Student Sustainability Grant Projects

Strategies for Supporting

Student Sustainability

Grant Projects

Nicole Leung

Grants Coordinator

The Green Initiative Fund, UC Berkeley

AASHE 2010 Conference, Denver CO

Framing the Issue

How do you advise students on making their

grant projects successful while also being grant projects successful while also being

realistic about what they can accomplish in a

limited time frame?

Berkeley Campus Culture

• ~35,000

students

• Over 30

sustainability sustainability

student

groups

• Many

institutional

barriersStudent Sustainability Forum, Fall 2009TGIF Grantee 2009 - $18,250

• 33 projects granted money since 2008 (over $700,000)

• Ongoing Challenges

– Realistic expectations

– Time and workload

BicyCal Mobile Bike Repair DaysTGIF Grantee 2009 - $12,000

The campus as a learning

laboratory

• Figure out how to

start the

conversation early

• Help students

Establish Realistic Expectations

• Help students

navigate the campus

• Continue to follow

up and revise

expectations

Photo: Students help build the Strawberry Creek Native

Plant Nursery

TGIF Grantee 2008 - $12,865

Encourage students as

change agents

The UC Berkeley Dashboard

interactive display, Wurster HallTGIF Grantee 2008 - $76,750

Berkeley Energy Resources Collective

(BERC) Energy SymposiumTGIF Grantee 2010 - $5,000

Bridge the Administrative Gap

• Facilitate communication between project teams and staffteams and staff

• Leverage committee membership to inform this process

Campus and student groups tabling

together, Fall 2009

Continuity -

Leadership development

Nicole Leung

[email protected]

281.702.7133

UC Berkeley TGIF

http://tgif.berkeley.edu

[email protected]

510.643.2992