The costs listed below cover all expenses, including transportation, housing, food, and any supplies needed for both Winter and Spring Trips:

• Urban Immersion - Domestic (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Knoxville, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and South Carolina)*:$450
  * Does not include San Francisco trip
• Rural Immersion - Domestic (Appalachia, Gaston, West Virginia): $350
• Chesapeake Bay: $300
• Cumberland Island, GA: $400
• Local DC (Washington, DC): $350
• International (Guatemala, Bahamas, Dominican Republic): $1300 (includes airfare)
• South Dakota: $900 (includes airfare)**

**NOTE: The South Dakota trip is currently in revision. AB plans to have a Native American Experience trip where travel costs are not as significant. Please contact the South Dakota trip leaders for additional information.

The costs listed below cover all expenses (local transportation, housing, food, and any supplies) EXCEPT airfare. Participants will be responsible of own airfare. Information about travel arrangements will be provided when student is confirmed:

San Francisco: $550 (Does not include airfare)

The cost of an Alternative Break experience should not be a barrier to your participation. There are numerous fundraising opportunities both as a team as well as individually. The AB program will provide you with resources so that you can seek outside funding to help pay for your trip. It is possible to fundraise the entire cost for your trip. Many participants from past years have been able to do this, and have paid nothing out of pocket

For Spring Break participants there are limited scholarship funds available based on demonstrated significant financial need. Please contact Terry Zacker, Adele H. Stamp Student Union-Center for Campus Life, (301) 314 7165 or tzacker@umd.edu.

Click here for the Berlage & TerpService Grant application

Alternative Breaks Payment and Refund Policies
2010 Alternative Winter and Spring Break

All payments must be made at the donation website (www.csl.umd.edu/donate) by the below due dates. Late payments will result in a $15 non-refundable fee.

Timeline for Winter Trips:

• Friday, November 6: $75 non-refundable deposit
• Tuesday, December 1: Half of total trip costs (either fundraising or paid)
• Monday, December 28: Fundraising deadline (all fundraising must be complete)
• Monday, January 4: Remaining Balance due

Timeline for Spring Trips:

• Friday, November 6: $75 non-refundable deposit
• Monday, December 14: 1/4 deposit of total trip cost due (either fundraising or paid)
• Thursday, February 4: Half of total trip costs (either fundraising or paid)
• Monday, March 1: Fundraising deadline (all fundraising must be complete)
• Monday, March 8: Remaining Balance due

Timeline for Graduate Trips:

• Tuesday, December 1: $75 deposit due
• Thursday, February 4: Half of total cost of trip due ($200)
• Monday, March 1: Fundraising deadline (all fundraising must be complete)
• Monday, March 8: Remaining Balance due (Total $400)

All participants are required to pay a $75 non-refundable deposit by November 6, 2009 with their Participant Agreement. This deposit and the agreement effectively obligates each student to the full cost of the trip. All payments thereafter must be made by the dates listed above. A $15 non-refundable fee will be required of each participant for each payment deadline not met.

If a participant drops from the AB program, under no circumstance will he or she be refunded. However, if illness or a family emergency occurs, participants may submit a payment appeal request (by email only to edoerr@umd.edu), whereby the participant will be sent a Payment Appeal Form which will be due no later than 2 weeks after the form is sent to the participant. AB staff may ask the participant to provide evidence of the illness or emergency (doctor's note, etc.). Each appeal will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. As stated earlier, no refunds will be administered under any circumstance, however depending on the specific appeal and the circumstances of the particular trip, participants may be released from a portion of the cost not yet paid.

Students on flying trips may have the option of requesting a flight voucher, depending on airline policies. This option may include an additional fee paid to the airline by the participant. In this instance AB would not refund the cost of the plane ticket to the participant.

Participants choosing to drop that are able to find a replacement may be released from full payment (minus the $75 deposit). The AB program may have a pool of alternates, but it is the primary responsibility of the participant dropping to find the replacement. Contact information to find out the steps to this process are provided in the Payment Appeal Form.

If full payment is not received by the final due date, the participant's student account through the University will be charged the remaining amount.