Re: can faculty donate personal time as a part of cost sharing? Kristy Ford 04 Jan 2008 14:24 EST
It should be okay to complete in-kind work on a funded project during the summer. Faculty are allowed to be paid for work completed on a funded project during the summer, so I don't see why they could not also complete in-kind work. You would just have to be sure to obtain documentation from the faculty verifying his/her time and effort during the summer and equate that to a dollar amount that it would have cost to pay that faculty during the summer. Also, be sure to verify with the agency that they will allow it. Kristy Kristy Ford Grant Management Manager Office of Sponsored Programs/MHUMC 4750 Waters Ave. Suite 212 Savannah, GA 31404 (912)350-6379 >>> Laura Letbetter <xxxxxx@KENNESAW.EDU> 1/4/2008 1:39 PM >>> Any thoughts on whether faculty can donate their personal time (in summer, not while under AY contract) to work on a grant and count this toward the in-kind contribution? We are thinking Subpart C, .23 of A-110 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a110/a110.html#23) covers this: "d) Volunteer services furnished by professional and technical personnel, consultants, and other skilled and unskilled labor may be counted as cost sharing or matching if the service is an integral and necessary part of an approved project or program. Rates for volunteer services shall be consistent with those paid for similar work in the recipient's organization. In those instances in which the required skills are not found in the recipient organization, rates shall be consistent with those paid for similar work in the labor market in which the recipient competes for the kind of services involved. In either case, paid fringe benefits that are reasonable, allowable, and allocable may be included in the valuation." Does anyone know of a rule, regulation, or interpretation of the above that would exclude grantee employees from donating their personal time as volunteers, provided we do not count the fringes of course, and provided that the faculty member subtracts the contributed % from the maximum summer workload allowed by the institution? Laura Letbetter Director, Proposal Development and Programmatic Research Office of Sponsored Programs Kennesaw State University 1000 Chastain Road Kennesaw, GA 30144 770-499-3365 phone 770-499-3620 fax xxxxxx@kennesaw.edu http://www.kennesaw.edu/osp ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================