Criteria

Deadlines:

  • Proposals must be submitted 6 weeks in advance of your event. (8-weeks if it is an international contract)

  • We will normally respond to your request within five business days.

Criteria:

  • The host department must be student-fee funded.

  • Must be open and free to all Portland State students.

  • The performer or speaker must have an educational purpose, such as a lecture or a performance that includes opportunities to learn.

  • The event must be on the Portland State campus.

  • The majority of attendees must be Portland State students.

  • You will be required to use the Portland State Box Office and to upload a box office report after the event clearly showing the number of Portland State students that attended.

  • It is expected that for each $500 of funds granted, there be at least 25 Portland State students in attendance.

  • For ease of accounting, Speaker’s Board Funds will only pay for personal service invoices for performers or speakers. Speakers who are current students or who are employed at Portland State are not eligible to receive Speakers Board funding.

  • Proposals must be submitted at least six weeks prior to the event date, three months in advance in the case of international speakers.

  • Priority will be given to funding eligible groups or departments which have not received funds in the year prior.