Do you have an imaginative idea, program, or project that will help to advance equity and inclusion at UC Santa Barbara? Are you hosting a cultural program or event on campus? The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion partners with several campus departments to provide grants and co-sponsorships for your innovative and creative programs. We encourage you to review the opportunities listed and contact us with additional questions.
Contact: Brett Collins (brettcollins@ucsb.edu)
Co-Sponsorships of Events and Activities
The UC Santa Barbara Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion invites applications for co-sponsorships to support events and activities that are designed to foster a more inclusive campus climate. We appreciate the time and effort you are willing to spend in fostering and enhancing campus climate through educational and socially engaged projects and programs focused on equity, diversity and inclusion. Our office hopes to encourage more of these activities and programs by providing partial financial support. We encourage applicants to link their events to the goals outlined in the campus’ strategic plan. Co-sponsorships are provided based on alignment with the campus strategic plan's equity and inclusion goals, availability of funds, and volume of requests.
Eligibility
- Groups eligible to request funds must be affiliated with UC Santa Barbara (registered student organizations; officially recognized faculty/staff associations; university departments, offices or programs).
- The event or program must be a UC Santa Barbara campus-based event designed to enhance community, equity, and inclusion at UC Santa Barbara.
Application Guidelines
Your funding application should include the following information:
A brief description of the activity, including:
- Date, time and location of event
- Desired audience/participants
- History of event (if applicable)
- Information about speakers, performers or other key participants
- Copies of any promotional materials/fliers
The impact of the Program/Event:
- Measurable Outcomes (List 1-3 outcomes that you will evaluate)
- Attendance
- Event surveys or other data that demonstrates that your program met its goals and outcomes
A budget for the Program/Event:
Please provide a budget with figures and description of how funds will be spent. Below are examples of typical event expenses:
- Advertising/Promotional Items
- Audio/visual equipment rental
- Event Set up charges
- Facility rental fees
- Food
- Handouts/copies
- Parking reservations
- Presenter fees
- Travel expenses
- Workshop supplies
Please include your other co-sponsors' funding support for your event. We cannot fully evaluate your request if there are no other co-sponsorships listed. All budget expenditures should abide by UC Santa Barbara policies and procedures.
DEI Transformation Grants
The UC Santa Barbara Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion invites applications to fund projects and initiatives that advance the core tenets of the UC Santa Barbara’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Priority will be given to investigators who propose new, innovative projects that have the potential to create systemic changes that increase access, advance achievement and sense of community, and improve climate at UC Santa Barbara.
Eligibility
- Project Leaders/Investigators eligible for DEI Transformation Grants include faculty and staff from UC Santa Barbara. Undergraduate and Graduate students may apply with a faculty co-sponsor.
- Project leaders are encouraged to seek/secure additional sources of support (institutional, departmental, gift, or grant).
- Projects that have received funding for two years are not eligible to reapply.
- Projects must focus on the UC Santa Barbara campus community.
Application Guidelines
All DEI Transformation Grant proposals will be considered on the following criteria:
- Strategic Vision: Proposals will specifically describe how the project will contribute to and enhance UC Santa Barbara’s campus climate, and/or address a critical barrier to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at UC Santa Barbara. Providing a tracking/assessment strategy for evaluation of impact is strongly encouraged.
- Innovation: Proposals will describe a new, high impact, collaborative, experimental and/or sustainable approach to enhancing and/or addressing an area of campus climate.
- Impact: Proposals will detail the project’s expected outcomes and impact(s), the audience(s) it will serve, and the number of people it will affect. Tracking and assessment data are strongly encouraged (survey/interview, recordings, documentation, etc).
- Collaboration: Proposals will identify how the project will bring together two or more campus entities, advance mutual goals and/or share knowledge, and specifically identify how the project will be integrated into the activities of teaching, research or public engagement.
- Sustainability: Proposals will demonstrate how the project is likely to be continued and incorporated or replicated by other organizations on campus. Supporting data is strongly encouraged.
- Budget Justification: Proposals will include a brief budget justification that describes and explains how the funds will be used.
Up to $5,000 in funds may be requested. We expect to fund up to 5 projects based on volume and merit of submitted proposals.
Arts Justice Grants
The UC Santa Barbara Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion welcomes proposals by individuals and groups that develop and sustain arts and media-based practices that are imaginative, risky, place-based, public-facing, and that are committed to confronting structural inequities and racism on our campus. We seek programs and projects that foster broader and more inclusive campus-community participation through arts-based engagements and organizing efforts and promote the role of creativity as a catalytic force in culture change within the institution. We are interested in initiatives that explore new epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies that move beyond conventional knowledge-making approaches.
Projects may support a range of campus-focused activities including, exhibitions, media projects performances, podcasts, residencies, alternative publications and other exploratory forms that encourage networking and collaboration across individuals, labs, studios and teaching environments.
Eligibility
- Project Leaders/Investigators eligible for Arts Justice Grants include faculty and staff from UC Santa Barbara. Undergraduate and Graduate students may apply with faculty co-sponsorship. We highly encourage collaboration and welcome submissions from multiple project leaders/investigators.
- Projects that are "outside the box" or may not be eligible for funding through more conventional academic grant programs are encouraged to apply
- Projects with pending or committed sources of support (institutional, gift, or grant) are encouraged to apply.
- Projects that have received funding in the past two years are not eligible to reapply.
- Projects may include community partners, but will need to address how program activity contributes to campus climate change in diversity, equity and inclusion at UC Santa Barbara.
Application Guidelines
All Arts Justice Grant proposals will be considered on the following criteria:
- Innovation: Proposals will describe a new, high impact, collaborative, imaginative, experimental approach to enhancing and/or addressing an area of campus climate.
- Impact: Proposals will detail the project’s expected outcomes and impact(s), the audience(s) it will serve, and the number of people it will affect. Tracking and assessment data are strongly encouraged (ie: data surveys interviews, field recordings, video documentation, etc).
- Collaboration: Proposals will identify how the project will bring together two or more campus entities, advance mutual goals and/or share knowledge, and specifically identify how the project will be integrated into the DEI activities through teaching, research or public service.
- Sustainability: Proposals will demonstrate how the project is likely to be continued and incorporated or replicated by other organizations on campus. Supporting data is strongly encouraged.
- Budget Justification: Proposals will include a brief budget justification that describes and explains how the funds will be used.
Staff Becoming Grants
Stemming from the 2023 DEI Summit, the UC Santa Barbara Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is now welcoming proposals that seek to structurally transform the staff experience on campus. Staff Becoming is a new paradigm of support for our Staff colleagues at UC Santa Barbara that seeks to not only promote wellness and development, but to more robustly embrace, affirm, and amplify the already vibrant experiences and expertises in our community.
Priority will be given to projects that propose innovative solutions and ideas with the potential for systemic change.
Eligibility
- Project Leaders/Investigators eligible for Staff Becoming Grants include staff and faculty from UC Santa Barbara. Undergraduate and Graduate students are encouraged to apply but in some cases may require a co-sponsor.
- Project leaders are encouraged to seek/secure additional sources of support (institutional, departmental, gift, or grant).
- Projects that have received funding for two years are not eligible to reapply.
- Projects must focus on the UC Santa Barbara Staff community and experience.
Application Guidelines
All Grant proposals will be considered on the following criteria:
- Strategic Vision: Proposals will specifically describe how the project will contribute to and enhance UC Santa Barbara’s campus climate, and/or address a critical barrier to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at UC Santa Barbara. Providing a tracking/assessment strategy for evaluation of impact is strongly encouraged.
- Innovation: Proposals will describe a new, high impact, collaborative, experimental and/or sustainable approach to enhancing and/or addressing an area of campus climate.
- Impact: Proposals will detail the project’s expected outcomes and impact(s), the audience(s) it will serve, and the number of people it will affect. Tracking and assessment data are strongly encouraged (survey/interview, recordings, documentation, etc).
- Collaboration: Proposals will identify how the project will bring together two or more campus entities, advance mutual goals and/or share knowledge, and specifically identify how the project will be integrated into the activities of teaching, research or public engagement.
- Sustainability: Proposals will demonstrate how the project is likely to be continued and incorporated or replicated by other organizations on campus. Supporting data is strongly encouraged.
- Budget Justification: Proposals will include a brief budget justification that describes and explains how the funds will be used.
Student Community Justice Grants
Our undergraduate and graduate student community has long been the backbone of our community justice movement and the UC Santa Barbara Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is eager to support our students in that ongoing mission.
We seek programs and projects that foster deeper community bonds, embrace student expertise, enhance the climate, and build coalitions across campus.
Eligibility
- Undergraduate and Graduate students are encouraged to apply but in some cases may require a co-sponsor.
- Project leaders are encouraged to seek/secure additional sources of support (institutional, departmental, gift, or grant).
- Projects that have received funding for two years are not eligible to reapply.
- Projects must focus on the UC Santa Barbara student community and experiences.
Application Guidelines
All Grant proposals will be considered on the following criteria:
- Strategic Vision: Proposals will specifically describe how the project will contribute to and enhance UC Santa Barbara’s campus climate, and/or address a critical barrier to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at UC Santa Barbara. Providing a tracking/assessment strategy for evaluation of impact is strongly encouraged.
- Innovation: Proposals will describe a new, high impact, collaborative, experimental and/or sustainable approach to enhancing and/or addressing an area of campus climate.
- Impact: Proposals will detail the project’s expected outcomes and impact(s), the audience(s) it will serve, and the number of people it will affect. Tracking and assessment data are strongly encouraged (survey/interview, recordings, documentation, etc).
- Collaboration: Proposals will identify how the project will bring together two or more campus entities, advance mutual goals and/or share knowledge, and specifically identify how the project will be integrated into the activities of teaching, research or public engagement.
- Sustainability: Proposals will demonstrate how the project is likely to be continued and incorporated or replicated by other organizations on campus. Supporting data is strongly encouraged.
- Budget Justification: Proposals will include a brief budget justification that describes and explains how the funds will be used.