预算叙述或预算论证. This is often a required element of a grant application and is a good addition even if not required. The budget justification explains how you derived the costs shown in your budget, and it is w在这里 you make the case that your costs are reasonable and necessary. Make it easy for the reviewer to follow: Show your math! A sample NSF budget and budget narrative can be found in 盒子.
费用分摊或配套资金. The Provost will evaluate any proposal that requires cost sharing beyond what Rhodes would normally provide. When a grant proposal requires fundraising to be done by the College to obtain matching funds, the initiator must send the final draft of the proposal along with a list of prospects for the matching funds to the Vice President for Development, 教务长, and the Vice President for Finance and Business Affairs for initial approval, and then to the President for final approval when necessary.
课程发布. Faculty members who wish to seek course releases during the academic year of a grant may request funding for no more than one course release per academic year that the grant support covers. Any exception to this limit must be approved by 教务长 before the grant application is submitted. The course release should be included in the grant budget, at 10% of the faculty member’s salary or $7,500, 取较高者, 加上附加福利.65%. See salaries and benefits below; see course release 政策.
直接成本 包括工资, 工资, and stipends for you or any other personnel associated with or working on your project (including students); equipment and maintenance; supplies; payment for participation, 谢礼, or colloquia fees; travel; communications (telephone, 传真, 复印, and postage); and fringe benefits.
设备. If your proposed grant budget includes new equipment to be purchased, discuss with the Finance office (x 3760) whether the purchase requires bidding or pricing. Also consider whether the equipment requires special installation (requiring physical plant staff or building alteration) or a maintenance or service contract.
设施及行政费用 (又名F&A; see indirect costs).
附加福利 (see below for “Salaries and fringe benefits for faculty and staff” and “学生工资及福利”).
间接成本 (also known as Facilities and 政府 or F&A) are those costs that cannot be attributed to one project (as direct costs can) but that are necessary to doing business and administering the grant. 这些包括诸如实用程序之类的项目, 建设维护, 图书馆服务, 教务长和院系的办公费用, 拨款会计及审计, I.T.等. 附加福利 are NOT included in indirect costs; they are considered a direct cost of grant activities.
间接成本 must be charged to all 奖助金 except those programs w在这里 they are not allowed.
Rhodes’s federally approved rate 对于间接成本 is 47% of all salaries and 工资 (faculty, staff and student) that are included in the grant budget. 起草联邦拨款提案, departments should budget 47% of salaries and 工资, 不包括附带福利, 对于间接成本. (见 政策.) If a grantor caps indirect costs at a rate lower than 47%, then use the lower rate.
Per diem rates (lodging, meals and incidentals) 对你.S. 可以找到城市 在这里.
Salaries and fringe benefits for faculty and staff. When calculating faculty or staff salaries for a multi-year grant budget, include a 生活费用每年提高3%. Grant proposals that 包括工资 should also include fringe benefits. 对于联邦拨款，这些计算为 28% 教职工工资. Rhodes’ actual cost for faculty/staff fringe is 36.5%; this higher percentage can be used when allowed by the (non-federal) funder. 至少, your grant budget must cover federally mandated FICA tax for Social Security and Medicare (7.工资/薪金的65%). If you fail to include any fringe in your grant budget, the 7.65% will be backed out of your grant-funded pay when it is processed by Rhodes’ payroll office. (例如:你预算了5000美元作为“津贴”.” You submit a Payment Request or Personnel Action Request (PAR) for $5,000. 工资将作为$4,629处理.60美元的津贴和370美元.FICA为40.)
学生工资及福利. 学生 工资 通常是 $9.每小时70元. A higher rate is unlikely to be approved due to campus commitment to pay equity. If you believe a higher rate of pay is warranted, you must discuss with and get prior approval from the Vice President for Finance and Business Affairs. 好处 为愿意工作的学生准备的 在夏天 and are not enrolled in an associated class should be included in grant budgets, figured at 7.65%的工资. This covers their FICA tax for Social Security and Medicare. 学生s who are enrolled full time in classes during the academic year are not charged FICA. 因此是7.65% for student fringe is not necessary in your grant budget if student 工资 will be paid during the school year.
夏天住房. If your grant project includes having students working or doing research on campus during summer months, you may budget grant funds to pay for their on-campus housing. 查阅 奖助金 现行汇率办公室. (For reference, the 2019 rate for summer housing at Rhodes was $120 to $175 per week.)
旅行. 大学旅行政策可以找到 在这里. When creating a grant budget that includes travel, consult online resources or call vendors for airfare or car rental costs. It is a good practice to itemize travel costs in your budget justification narrative. 美国学生的食宿费用估计.S. 可以找到城市 在这里. Include your daily costs for needed local transportation (Uber, 付出租车费, 航天飞机, 机场停车费). If you are driving, the standard mileage reimbursement rate for 2020 is $0.每英里575美元.