I don't know about this competition.  Can anyone enlighten me?

Carol

At 11:27 AM 3/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Based on the "Justify all funds requested for administration" statement,
>I don't think that any of the 15% max allowable request for
>administrative purposes can be used as F&A costs. My take is that if you
>can identify individual costs for the administration of the project they
>are then by definition direct costs.
>The "in lieu of indirect costs" language has me leaning this way too.
>I'm interested to hear what others think.
>--
>Gardner Congdon
>Assistant Director, Program Development
>Office of Research Administration
>Boston College
>(617)552-2248
>xxxxxx@bc.edu
>
>"Ginny L. Goodwin" wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone had proposals submitted to the Lancy Foundation
>> recently for the National Conferences for Undergraduate Research
>> Program recently?  If so, how was the F & A handled?
>>
>> There budget instructions were worded as follows:  "In lieu of
>> indirect costs, proposers may request up to 15% of the total award
>> for administrative purposes.  Up to $5000 of these administrative
>> costs may be used for the Director's compensation.  No other
>> direct compensation is permitted. Cost sharing, in the form of
>> donated time of faculty and staff and of resources such as housing
>> and transportation, is encouraged and should be noted where
>> appropriate.  Justify all funds requested for administration."
>>
>> Any input will be greatly appreciated!  Thanks! Ginny Goodwin
>>
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