Maybank Green Fund

Individuals or groups of the following criteria are welcome to apply:

• Organising committee should consist of only full-time NUS undergraduate students.
• Applicant/Project leader should complete the project before graduating from the University.
• Project teams should aim to pursue their passion, apply their skills and knowledge in real-life community projects to bring positive and meaningful change to the environment and/or promote sustainable development.
• Projects need to work with a community partner which could be a NUS department, faculty, residences and/or external community partners.
• Projects must be endorsed by a NUS staff advisor either from a faculty or department.

The proposals are evaluated based on the following criteria:

1. Number of NUS students engaged to serve the community (eg. organising team members and/or volunteers)
2. First time application or repeated application
3. Indirect (eg. Awareness, social media campaign) or direct engagement (eg. collaborative, interactive workshop)
4. Collaborative effort of team to engage all team members and community partner(s) in the project designing stage
5. Social integration (eg. having a mix of international and local students in the group)
6. Diversity (eg. having a mix of students from different faculties/interest groups etc.)
7. Research effort (eg. including primary and secondary research)
8. Value-adding to community partner organisation and their initiatives
9. Application and learning of skills and knowledge
10. Demonstrates application of plans/actions to achieve sustainability beyond project duration
11. Proposed scale of impact (eg. the number of households/ community members that can benefit from the project outcomes after the completion of the project)

Check out the MGF Assessment Rubrics to find out more!

1. Projects that aim at, or will result in, financial or material gain for the organising committee
2. Projects that lack a clear community angle, or where the community angle is tangential to the project
3. Projects that successfully received OSA funding from other OSA funding sources such as Teach Singapore, Community Engagement Fund, and University Support for Pursuit of Arts, Culture and Sports (U-Sparks)

The following expenditures will not be supported, even if the project as a whole is approved:

1. General operating expenses of start-up costs of student clubs, societies or interest groups
2. Any private and personal consumption items. This includes:
   1. Direct cash prizes or outright donations to beneficiaries (donations can be monetary or in-kind e.g. food items, equipment)
   2. Goodie bags, door gifts and volunteers' t-shirts 
   3. Note: mandatory vaccinations can be supported
3. Purchase and maintenance of fixed assets/equipment
4. Third party fees e.g. accommodation fees that are paid to an intermediary instead of directly to the service provider
5. Vendor fees and honorarium e.g. workshop training fees
   1. Translator/translation fees are acceptable
6. Audit, legal, utilities, fines and penalties fees, insurance premiums for equipment e.g. third-party liability insurance
7. Tobacco and alcohol products
8. Overseas travel expenditure (including but not limited to airfare, flight/train tickets, accommodation costs). This includes items 1- 6 mentioned above. 
9. Items, goods or services where approved team members have a direct stake or interest in (This is to avoid conflict of interest)
10. Items that are not directly relevant to the proposed project or for which alternatives or substitutes are available within the University, or in-kind