The Undergraduate Council’s “Financial Aid for Student Tickets Resolution” will take effect next year, thanks to $10,000 donations from the College’s Office of the Dean and the Office of Financial Aid.

Passed by the council on April 29, the bill seeks to provide $40 in vouchers to all 500 College students whose parents contribute less than $2,000 a year to their educational expenses. These vouchers may be used to help students attend activities such as formals and performances that would otherwise present them with too large a financial burden.

Rohit Chopra ’04, vice chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC), said the vouchers will contribute significantly to campus social life.

“This program is going to strengthen student groups, especially House committees and arts groups, since they’ll be able to reach a larger audience,” Chopra said. “More importantly, it will address an issue that isn’t talked about too much, and that’s differences in socioeconomic status of students that go here. This is one more way the council is breaking down barriers to let every student take part in the Harvard undergraduate experience.”

The $20,000 donation will be enough to run the program next year alone, and council members said they are working with Harvard’s development office to establish a permanent endowment for the vouchers using alumni contributions.

Even before the passage of the resolution, the council received administrative support for the vouchers at the meeting of the Committee on College Life (CCL) on April 19.

But it was not until last week that the council knew where its first year’s funds would come from.

Last Thursday, council members met with Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue, who agreed to provide half of the necessary funding.