The handbook covers a wide variety of topics, including:
- Recognition: Requirements, benefits, and training opportunities for all student organizations
- Event Planning: Space reservation process, event registration, publicity, and online ticket sales
- Financial Processes: Financial stewardship, signatories, purchasing and reimbursement, and donations
- Sponsorship: Process, guidelines, and documentation needed for funds provided to a group in which the sponsor is receiving set benefits.
- Travel: All policies related to student organization travel from planning to payment
- Alcohol Policy: Policy and guidelines for events procedures and promotion
- Special Events and Regulations: Ticketing, safety plans, co-sponsoring events, and more
- Hackathons, Conferences, and Case Competitions: Applications, criteria, and procedures
- City Licensing: Required for some student events
- Promotion and Publicity: Postering and chalking
- Additional MIT Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines: Hazing, Institute discrimination and harassment response, and use of MIT logo, name, and/or brand
- General Resources: Mental Health, bias reporting, and sexual harassment or misconduct reporting
- Online Resources for Event Planning