JOIN THE MAP NETWORK
CHAPTER APPLICATIONS
To start a MAP chapter at your institution, fill out this Google form. New chapter applications are accepted year-round.
New chapters are welcome to start structuring their group as they see fit to their department. Some guidelines to starting up:
New chapters are welcome to start structuring their group as they see fit to their department. Some guidelines to starting up:
- Email your department and see how many other students are interested. There will likely be fewer students interested in organizing than in participating in MAP events; you'll need some of both for a functioning group. We recommend a group of 3-4 organizers. If organizers are all undergrads, faculty support at the organizational level is critical.
- Discuss projects that fit your department's climate and needs. Don't reinvent the wheel each time! Browse past chapter activities for ideas to get started.
- Look for funding from your department and university (e.g., graduate student group funds, dean's funds). A sample funding proposal from Yale's chapter is available here: download.
- Read End-of-the-Year Reports to familiarize yourself with what's worked well for chapters, trends, common problems, suggested solutions, etc.
- Get faculty involved. Chapters report faculty attendance at events helps integrate MAP into the department.
FOR SMALLER SCHOOLS
Want to be involved in MAP but can't start a chapter at your school? Get in touch with us at mapforthegap@gmail.com, and we'll help talk through options.
FUNDING APPLICATIONS
Funding applications for the Spring 2020 semester are due February 2. We will no longer consider late applications and will limit the amount of requests to be considered outside of funding application deadlines. We encourage you to plan ahead.
NB: chapters granted more than $500 must submit a report summarizing the event or project.
At the request of our funders, we are now moving toward reimbursement as the default payment method for tax purposes. This requires you to submit receipts (along with a funding cover sheet, as a single PDF) at the end of the semester or when you have spent your allotted funds (whichever comes first, or is more convenient). You may also provide us with payment information at the time you submit receipts for reimbursement. We are sensitive to the difficulties this poses to graduate students. If fronting the funds you need for your event would be overly burdensome, we have a very limited amount of funding that we can disburse ahead of time to cover the costs of your event. Please email mapforthegap@gmail.com to request this.
Please note when applying that for tax reasons, funding from Fall cannot carry over into Spring, so any excess funds must be used before the end of the term. (Spring funds may carry into the following Fall, however).
- Special event funding application (e.g., regional events)
NB: chapters granted more than $500 must submit a report summarizing the event or project.
At the request of our funders, we are now moving toward reimbursement as the default payment method for tax purposes. This requires you to submit receipts (along with a funding cover sheet, as a single PDF) at the end of the semester or when you have spent your allotted funds (whichever comes first, or is more convenient). You may also provide us with payment information at the time you submit receipts for reimbursement. We are sensitive to the difficulties this poses to graduate students. If fronting the funds you need for your event would be overly burdensome, we have a very limited amount of funding that we can disburse ahead of time to cover the costs of your event. Please email mapforthegap@gmail.com to request this.
Please note when applying that for tax reasons, funding from Fall cannot carry over into Spring, so any excess funds must be used before the end of the term. (Spring funds may carry into the following Fall, however).