Employees must meet the following requirements to be eligible to receive funding:
- Be a current benefits-eligible employee of Ithaca College;
- Have successfully completed at least one year of continuous service at Ithaca College; and
- Have not received any disciplinary actions that resulted from violating any of the policies outlined in the Ithaca College Policy Manual within the past year.
Employees must be able to show all 3 types of documentation for an application to be complete:
- Evidence of catastrophic event or temporary emergency;
- Evidence of the financial hardship; and
- Evidence of how this hardship is affecting their basic living needs (e.g. currently past due bills).