SORF and Other Campus-Wide Funding

SORF (Student Organization Resource Fee)

More information about programs/events eligible for SORF funds, SORF application procedures, and application due dates can be located at the SORF web site: http://www.union.uiuc.edu/sorf/.

SORF, the Student Organization Resource Fee, is a $10 mandatory, but refundable fee collected each semester from students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The fee was introduced in 1978 as a response to the need to support programs and activities of Registered Student Organizations (RSOs). SORF is a funding partnership between the organization and SORF funds.

SORF also funds Student Legal Services (SLS) and the Tenant Union (TU). SLS provides students who have not requested and received their SORF refund with legal assistance (more information on SLS can be obtained from its office in room 324, Illini Union). The Tenant Union, located in 326 Illini Union, provides information to students regarding housing, including references such as landlord complaint statistics.

A group must be a Registered Student Organization (RSO) to apply for SORF funds.  Information about how a group of students can apply to become an RSO can be obtained at the RSO web site: http://www.union.uiuc.edu/rso/index.html any housing based student group meeting the RSO requirements to become a group may apply to be an RSO.

• SORF funding is a partnership between SORF and the organization. Every year, a significantly greater amount of funding is requested from SORF than is available so SORF rarely fully funds anything.

• SORF can fund speakers, travel to conferences, travel to tournaments, flyers and DI ads for marketing, rental equipment, and permanent equipment.

• SORF will not fund: social events, dances, gifts (any form of recognition), food unless integral to the program, events that are proselytizing or evangelical in nature, events where admission is charged to UIUC to students, postage (unless integral to the organization), publications/printing not also in English, political endorsements, expenses for fund raisers, wages, or salaries.

• There are 13 funding periods – apply early and make sure your event falls within the funding periods.

• SORF funding application, schedule and guidelines are online at www.union.uiuc.edu/sorf.

• Treasurer must complete the online application.

• Groups are invited to present to the SORF Board at the beginning of meetings. Each group is allowed 3 minutes.

PCC – Program Coordinating Council

• PCC is a central method of asking Student Affairs units to support your program so an organization does not have to approach each individual unit, such as McKinley, Campus Rec., OMSA, Illini Union, Housing, Counseling Center, Dean of Students office

• PCC will fund events of interest to as many students as possible

• Events must be free to UIUC students

• Contact the Office of the Dean of Students Office for an application and application due dates

• PCC meets monthly to determine allocations

• Residential Life Assistant Director for Multicultural and Leadership programs sits on the PCC and can help answer questions about PCC funding or funding requests.

SCP - Student Cultural Programming Fee

• The Student Cultural Programming Fee provides direction and allocation of resources for culture-specific programming. 

• The goal is to advance further cultural awareness, encourage diversity, educate the greater community as a whole, and provide a forum for the development, exploration, and improvement of cultural programs.

• Anyone (individual, organization, department, program) currently affiliated with UIUC may apply for funding from the Student Cultural Programming Fee.

• Programs or events must be free to UIUC students, faculty and staff and be presented within the academic year.

• The Student Cultural Programming Fee has limited resources and 100% full funding is rare. The fee’s advisory committees encourage applicants to seek funding from other sources. Applications that have indicated other sources of funding will receive greater consideration.

• What the Student Cultural Programming Fee will not fund includes, but is not limited to: social events, dances, gifts (any form of recognition), food unless integral to the program, events that are proselytizing or evangelical in nature, closed events, postage, publications/printing not also in English, political endorsements, expenses for fund raisers, equipment purchases, wages, or salaries. Events held off-campus (beyond walking distance) will not likely be funded.

• For further information about application instructions and submission deadlines, contact Cathy Acevedo in the Office of the Dean of Students at acevedo@uiuc.edu

• Additional information about the SCP can be found on the Dean of Students web site at www.odos.uiuc.edu/scfm.asp.