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Green Student Initiative Grant
The SGA Sustainability Committee oversees the selection process of the Green Student
Initiative Grants - a program in which students with new ideas for OSU's campus can
be provided resources to make their original initiatives happen. Through an application
and interview-presentation process, recipients are selected by a panel of judges and
awarded grants to fund their initiatives. Green Student Initiative Grant applications for the 2025/2026 academic year are currently
closed, but be looking for our 2026/2027 link coming in January of 2026.
Past Projects:
2024/2025
- TBD
2023/2024
- ASLA: Living Wall at Ag Hall, new plants and planting day
- CAS Student Counsel: Clothing donation boxes in Res Life areas
- Engineers Without Borders: Living Wall at Ag Hall, funding for building the structure and planting day
- Global Medical Brigades: Sustainable water infrastructure
- Horticulture and Landscape Architecture: More accessible garden plot for special needs
- Pre-Optometry Club: Eye glasses donation and reuse
- Red Pantry: Expansion of hygiene products available on campus
2022/2023
- American Student Dental Association: Sustainable toothbrush project
- CowboyThon: Spreading awareness for children's health
- Engineers Without Borders: Materials and funding for Guatemalan pipeline
- Green Greeks: Greeks community garden upkeep
- International Genetically Engineered Machine Team: Methane mitigation in agricultural wastewater
- Net Impact: hosting a sustainability conference
- OSU Student Farm: wash station
- Red Pantry: Installation of pick up locations for free, sustainable period products
- SGA It's On Us: Cup cover initiative
Project Ideas:
Is your group having trouble coming up with some ideas?
- Design, get approval, and install recycling signage on or above the indoor receptacles
- Design, get approval, and install recycling signage on dumpsters in Res Life
- Small tool library or fixing days for electronics, clothing, bikes, etc.
- Community Garden updates (located by the Cross Country track) including signage, activities, spot designation, etc.
- Make menstrual kits for shelters
- Bus Stop Green Roof project – buy materials to put a green roof on an existing bus stop, purchase plants, install (could be multiple projects where groups work together on different pieces)
- SGA passed a bill in 2023 for more hydration stations across campus, a grant will cover cover one or two in open locations
- Pocket Prairie Project – Western and McElroy
- Work Days
- Further Designs
- Reach out to Landscape Services (Nick Oulette)
- Plastic return vending machine
- Design, get approval, and work during football season to recycle (bags, stands, information, people to monitor)
- Map for best sidewalks for bikes/scooters