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BUDGETING for NIH. Nancy Myers Sims, Grants & Contracts Development Specialist. Modular v s. Itemized budget. Getting Started with your Budget Know your limits ! Identify all the costs that are necessary and reasonable to complete the work described in your proposal
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BUDGETING for NIH Nancy Myers Sims, Grants & Contracts Development Specialist
Modular vs. Itemized budget
Getting Started with your Budget • Know your limits! • Identify all the costs that are necessary and reasonable to complete the work described in your proposal • Significant over- or under-estimating suggests you may not understand the scope of the work • Despite popular myth, proposing a cost-sharing (matching) arrangement where you only request that NIH support some of the funding while your organization funds the remainder does not normally impact the evaluation of your proposal. Only a few select programs require cost-sharing, and these programs will address cost-sharing in the FOA
Itemized (Detailed) Budget Categories • Personnel • Fringe Benefits (employment taxes) • Equipment • Travel • Participant Support • Other (supplies/publication/consult/ • subaward/consortium/contractual study participant incentives, analyses, etc)
Budget Justification • Personnel - Provide brief descriptions of duties for all positions listed in the budget, with the number of person months requested each year and any anticipated fluctuations. Special skills or accomplishments of a designated person may be included if not discussed elsewhere. • Equipment - ≥$5000 per item. Details are important, quotes when possible • Travel– Include destination and reason for travel as well as Foundation rates for expenses • Other – Explain need for each linewith breakdown of costs • Contractual – Subcontractor should include separate justification with budget
F&A or Indirect Costs • Is NOT “free” money for the university/Foundation • Are costs that are incurred by a grantee for common or joint objectives and that, therefore, cannot be identified specifically with a particular project or program. • Negotiated by Foundation/University budget office with DHHS • Current rate: 40% MTDC