Volunteer time needs to be documented, preferably concurrently and with
both the volunteer and someone on staff who knows of the effort certifying
to it.  Valuation depends on the nature of the services:  a physician who
volunteers time to provide medical services should be valued at her usual
rate for these services, but if she washes dishes, her time should be
valued at that of a dish washer.  For many non-professional types of
services the minimum wage is assuredly defensible on audit.

Chuck

At 09:08 AM 8/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear RESADM-L friends,
>
>I would like to use volunteer time as an in-kind match in a proposal which
>allows in-kind as part of the required match for a program. What forms of
>documentation should be used if this project is awarded? Would time sheets
>for
>the number of hours worked by each volunteer suffice? If this is
>non-skilled
>volunteer time, would you generally estimate the value by using the minimum
>hourly wage?
>
>Thanks for your comments.
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