Resources for Challenge Teams
The REP Captains, your House/Yard Rep, and the REP Coordinator are here for you as resources and to help you connect to other people on campus who have experience with the kinds of projects you are working on. We are happy to help at any stage of the process and can meet with you in your dorm, over a meal, or in our office. We look forward to hearing from you!
We have added funding, publicity, and on- and off-campus resources below. Please let us know if you have suggestions for additional resources that could help other Challenge Teams.
Funding:
Green Cup does not have funding for Challenge Team projects. If your project is a large one requiring significant funding, please keep in mind that a proposal for funding is in itself an excellent project.
Recommended sources of funding include:
- Undergraduate Council Grants. Any group of students, officially registered or not, can apply for project funding, for as many projects as they like. For the majority of grants, amounts awarded range from $20-300. It is unusual for the UC to give grants larger than $500. The primary criterion is level of impact on students at Harvard College. A new Weekly Grant Cycle means that if you apply by Friday, you will interview on Monday, and know your grant amount by the following Sunday.
- For Houses: your House (building manager, masters, House Committee, etc.)
Campus Contacts:
- Harvard Office For Sustainability : Please contact Brandon_Geller@harvard.edu to find out whether
OFS staff members
might be able to give you some tips on your project. - Environmental Action Committee: Check the website for subcommittee chair contact information, or email eac-open at hcs.harvard.edu or eac-board at hcs.harvard.edu if you have a specific inquiry.
- Sustainable Allston group list. (Subscribe to stay up-to-date on campus-wide long-term greening projects).
- Ivy League Environmental Coalition website and list made up of students running environmental programs or projects at all of the Ivies:
- Climate Campaign: Portal to New England Student Environmental Coalitions.
Publicity:
- Yard:
- Student Group Meeting, Tabling, and FDO Publicity Information.
- Dorm open-lists.
- Weekly Yard Bulletin
- Crimson:
- To report an event or news story, call (617) 576-6565. Then email news at thecrimson.com.
- Submit
an editorial to the Crimson.
- "Op-eds and op-art may be submitted via e-mail (letters@thecrimson.com), fax (617-576-7860, Attn: Editorial Board), or mail (Crimson Editorial Board, c/o The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton St. Cambridge, MA 02138)."
- Calendars on campus:
- College Calendar
- Undergraduate Council
- House System (posters)
- Weekly Public Service Update
- Submit to the EAC weekly newsletter by emailing eac at hcs.harvard.edu.
- Harvard Gazette
- Submit to the Women's Leadership Project Newsletter by emailing wlp@hcs.harvard.edu.
Campus Greening Resources:
- NWF's Campus Ecology Program: profiles of excellent projects at many universities
- University Leaders for a Sustainable Future: extensive database
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