Gabriel,
I have a similar situation. Consider this labor a third party donation, no fringe benefits and no F&A as the university is not providing this. She will; however, need to document her labor similar to a signed effort report. I'm using an hourly rate for my faculty member.

Best regards,

Jeanette

Jeanette Bernard- Snyder,CRA
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From: Gabriel Johnson <xxxxxx@CLARKU.EDU>
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Date: 05/03/2011 02:31 PM
Subject: [RESADM-L] cost-sharing of unpaid effort
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I’m curious if anyone has run into this situation before:

A faculty member with no current salary would like to include her unpaid labor as a cost share (in-kind) on a grant proposal to a private foundation. The faculty member is retired, but has an appointment that allows her to receive salary from grants at a university-approved rate of pay. Would your institution allow this as cost sharing? If so, how would you document it for reporting/audit purposes?

It would seem to me that this is not really an in-kind contribution on the university’s part, because the university has no expense to document. (In other words it’s not the university that bears the “cost” but the individual faculty member.) It might also be a labor issue. But maybe I’m mistaken.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!

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Gabe Johnson
Clark University
Office of Sponsored Programs & Research
508-793-7765

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