• Group Travel to attend a conference, competition, performance or similar event for academic purposes
• Group Extracurricular Travel, including service trips
• Group-sponsored on-campus events, including speakers, lectures, parties, approved fundraisers, performances

Group projects are funded in the same way individual student projects are funded--either as a group funder-initiated award or an award to a group-initiated project. Please visit the SAFE Reference Guide for Administrators for detailed instructions for making awards.

When you create a funding opportunity, you select "create a new funding opportunity for individual" or "create a new funding opportunity for group". You cannot fund groups with an opportunity that was created for individuals and you cannot fund individuals with an opportunity that was created for groups. The groups must log in with their group's net id (not their personal net id) to search and apply for group funding.

Just as funders are encouraged to create opportunities for all relevant types of individual student projects, they are also urged to create opportunities for individuals and groups if appropriate. Thus, if your office has a pool of money that could be used to fund individual or group projects, please create both types.

To apply for funding on behalf of a group, a student representative must log in to SAFE with the group's net ID. The group then creates a project and searches for funding in the same manner in which an individual student would in SAFE.

A group without a NetID and chart string has two options:

1. They can partner with a recognized group (one that already has a group NetID and chartstring); or
2. They will need to find a University department, office or program administrator to sponsor the group NetID. The sponsor will request a NetID for the group and provide a chartstring to receive any funds awarded for the project.

The administrative sponsor should send a message to [email protected] requesting a Group Net ID for SAFE access. The administrative sponsor will be prompted to submit a web form indicating the desired name for the OIT NetID, the expiration for the account (please request 3 months), and the account display name.

While individual student awards are paid via direct deposit to the student, group awards are paid via from your department to either the group's PU account or, if it's not a PU recognized student organization, to the department sponsoring the group. Funders pay the awards to groups via the Payment Using GL Transfer section on the Pay Awards page.