You never had a Gift to build a specific building or endow a specific faculty chair? Or are we confusing "how the funds will be spent." Do some infer this to mean the ultimate purpose of the gift, and others are thinking line item budget? Here at Michigan, I suspect, very few gifts are given in an unrestricted mode. Most often the gifts are for specific purposes -- scholarships, athletics, this school or department or that, this chair or that, some building fund or the other, the President's salary bonus fund, or for some specific faculty members general research. Also be careful of saying gifts require no reporting. I suspect our colleagues in the development office would say that good stewardship requires a certain amount of reporting on how and when the funds are used. Of course most "gifts" come from individuals and very few of them are giving grants for sponsored projects, nor do we get gifts from government agencies (although one program office, many years ago said that he though federal research grants were just gifts for us to do with as we wished, long before A-21 and CAS). Thus the set of givers that present us problems are industry (they all want to give gifts that have no indirect cost, of course) and foundation/public charities. Within this domain of institutions it should be easy to differentiate between gifts and grants. Bob xxxxxx@umich.edu ----- --On Monday, October 22, 2001 2:00 PM -0400 Elaine Young <xxxxxx@UMBC.EDU> wrote: > Not at my place! > ----- > > > Careful - sometimes it does! > > Mary ----- > At 01:40 PM 10/22/2001 -0400, you wrote: >> Also - a gift does not specify how the funds will be spent. >> --- >> A grant requires reports, either financial and or technical; whereas, >> gifts do not require any reporting. That has been the "rule of thumb" >> here. >> >> Audrey >> >> >> >> Senior Contract Administrator, II >> Office of Research Services >> 3451 Walnut Street >> Room P221 Franklin >> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6289 >> p) 215 573-6709 >> f) 215 898-9708, 9707 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On >> Behalf Of Atkinson, Timothy N >> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:28 PM >> To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG >> Subject: [RESADM-L] Gift vs. Grant >> >> Can someone tell me where to find good information about determining the >> difference between Gifts and Grants. I've seen some of your websites >> concerning the matter. Are there any government regs or other regs that >> help >> with this determination? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tim >> >> Timothy N. Atkinson >> Office of Research and Sponsored Programs >> University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences >> Little Rock, AR 72205 >> Phone: 501-686-8845 >> Cell: 501-837-5348 >> Fax: 501-686-8359 >> >> >> ====================================================================== >> Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >> subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >> via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >> ====================================================================== >> >> >> ====================================================================== >> Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >> subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >> via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >> ====================================================================== >> >> >> ====================================================================== >> Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >> subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >> via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >> ====================================================================== > > Mary H. Watson > Director, Grants and Contracts > Room 215, Regional Center for Continuing Education > Valdosta State University > Valdosta, GA 31698 > > 229-333-7837 (phone) > 229-245-3853 (Fax) > > > ====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > ====================================================================== > > > ====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > ====================================================================== Bob xxxxxx@umich.edu ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================
