GIG
Since 1980 the Greater Interest in Government (GIG) program has provided chapter project grants of up to $750 each, to be used to help pay the expenses of public-oriented projects. Proposals are judged by the Tau Beta Pi Executive Council. Through October 2007, 63 grants had been given totaling $43,833, including a special project award to North Carolina Epsilon in 1991.
Iowa Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi has received 15 of the 63 grants, while no other chapter has received more than four grants. The years in which Iowa Alpha received a GIG grant included 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2007-08.