Emergency Need Fund
The Student Emergency Need Fund is a resource for students experiencing financial roadblocks impeding college success. Funds are intended to support students’ academic progression and holistic development.
Students identified as having imminent financial need may be referred by college faculty, staff, or administrators to the Office of the Dean of Student Development. This referral will only be made with student permission. Students may also request assistance on their own behalf by contacting the Dean of Student Development.
Grants and funding have been donated by our generous benefactors, including:
- Co-Greene Cares Without Restrictions Fund
- Dyson
- HRBT
- Igniting Dreams ENF, and Without Restrictions Fund
- Scholars Ball ENF
- SUNY Impact
Assistance is administered on a case-by-case basis, using the criteria listed below. Payments will be made directly to the vendor or the third party (i.e., landlord, mechanic, utility company, book vendor). Gas and Food Cards will be given directly to the student.
Maximum award is equal to one semester of tuition.
Examples of qualifying expenses include (but are not limited to):
- Tuition and student fees
- Housing expenses, (i.e., rent, mortgage payment)
- Emergency temporary lodging (if student is homeless or in an unsafe situation)
- Essential utilities (e.g., electric, gas, water)
- Temporary food insecurity
- Medical, vision, and dental treatment/medication/prescriptions when the student does not have the ability to pay, and the costs cannot be covered by insurance.
- Financial needs arising from an unexpected emergency, accident, or other unexpected critical incidents.
- Books
- Daycare costs
- Travel costs related to school and or place of employment.
- Other financial needs arising from individual and special circumstances to be determined on a case by case basis
Examples of non-qualify expenses include (but are not limited to):
- Costs of entertainment, recreation, or non-emergency travel
- Parking tickets
- Expenses due to a lack of financial planning or overspending
Eligibility Requirements
- Applicants must be currently enrolled students, generally in good academic standing.
- Applicants must have an immediate and unexpected financial hardship.
- Applicants must write a letter or email of request and include supporting documents and other documentation as requested by the Dean of Student Development.
- Applicants must meet with the Dean of Student Development.
Procedures for Assistance Requests under $ 500 (fuel and food cards, bus and taxi tickets)
- Applicants must write an email directed to the Dean of Student Development.
- Student completes the correct Acceptance Form and a Grant Self-Report Form.
- Requests are reviewed by the Dean of Student Development.
- If approved, recipients are instructed to pick up cards or tickets from the Office of the Dean of Student Development.
Procedures for Assistance Requests $500 and above
- Applicants must write a letter or email of request and include supporting documentation.
- Requests for textbook support must include the following information:
Instructor’s name
Course name and number
ISBN#
Title, author, and edition
Cost
- Requests related to daycare/childcare support must include the following information:
Name of daycare
Invoice
Permission to speak to the director of the daycare
Licensed daycares only – will not pay for in-home care
Contact Information
Andrew Ledoux
Dean of Student Development
Email: andrew.ledoux@sunycgcc.edu
Phone: 518-697-6320