Re: Grant/cash transfer Ruth Tallman 25 Jan 1999 10:29 EST
Barbara, Thank you for your reply. Did you send any documentation to NSF regarding the institution-to-institution transfer? I was thinking that if the institution-to-institution transfer was documented at both institutions, we wouldn't need to send anything to NSF since they don't seem to want to be involved. Ruth -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Gray [SMTP:xxxxxx@COFC.EDU] Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 9:59 AM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: Re: Grant/cash transfer Ruth--We've had it go both ways. Once, when we transferred a grant to another institution, we had excess funds when all charges cleared. We just cut a check and sent them on to the new institution. In another case, we were the recipient of the transfer. About a year after the transfer, the original institution realized that they had significantly overexpended and wanted to know if we could return any of the money. Unfortunately, by then, all the funds were gone. Had the original institution requested sooner, we may have been able to help them out, but I certainly would have confered with the PI first to be sure that he/she had not committed those "extra" funds elsewhere. It is true that NSF does not want to be involved after the official transfer is completed, but they will accept direct institution-to-institution corrections to zero out budgets. Barbara Ruth Tallman wrote: > > Here's one for you all: > > A faculty member came to us from another university. > We transferred three NSF awards. When the old institution > estimated the delayed expenses associated with the grant, > they over estimated. They ended up with balances on the > accounts when all the bills were in. I called NSF and was > told that they do not get involved in changing the amounts > of grants that have been transferred. I was told to work > it out with the old institution to have the funds transferred > from the old institution to the new institution. > > Have any of you had experience with this? > > Ruth Tallman > Lehigh University > Office of Research > xxxxxx@lehigh.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") > ====================================================================== -- ================================================================== Barbara H. Gray, Director Research & Grants Administration College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 Office: 843-953-5673 Direct: 843-953-5885 Fax: 843-953-6577 e-mail: xxxxxx@cofc.edu http://www.cofc.edu/~orga/ Campus Location: 407G Bell Bldg. ================================================================== ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================