You keep mentioning trainees and I am assuming that the award is focused on providing a training opportunity to the trainees. Is it possible for you to consider using the NIH F&A training award rate of 8%?  Marjorie
On Aug 4, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Kris Wolff wrote:

Our ethics center is running a training institute funded by the NIH which includes mini “grants” to the trainees to do research projects at their own institutions.  The center wants to avoid paying indirect costs on the mini grants as it’s such a small amount of money already, so they’re reluctant to enter into subcontracts with the trainees’ institutions.  At the same time, they feel that keeping all the money here at Fordham might not be the best choice because that could end up being an administrative nightmare.  And they don’t want to give the money to the trainees directly because of the taxes that would have to be paid by the trainees.

They had their program officer come to a recent lecture and his suggestion was awarding the money to the institutions, but insisting that they could not recoup any indirect costs on it.  I’m afraid that there could be some institutions that will not agree to this, thus causing their trainee to lose out on the mini grant opportunity.

Has anyone come up against a situation like this, and what did you do?

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