great example.  Thanks for sharing it!

Jennifer Morgan, M.H.A.
Director, Office of Grants and Contracts
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health Systems
3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh PA  15213
Voice:  412-624-0743  Fax:  412-624-0714

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Wood [mailto:xxxxxx@LELAND.STANFORD.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:49 PM
> To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> Subject: Re: Personal membership costs charged to contract/grants
>
>
> At 11/18/99, Morgan, Jennifer" <xxxxxx@MSX.UPMC.EDU> wrote:
>  >The only thing I could come up with would be if a person
> wanted to present
>  >data from the project at a scientific meeting that only
> allowed members to
>  >present.  Even then, I would have trouble unless the
> sponsor had approved in
>  >such a way that it doesn't look as if it just slipped
> through the cracks.
>
> Another instance that I saw one time was the case of a social science
> research project which used as the principal resource a data
> set that was
> made available only to members of a specific group, which required a
> membership fee. The PI understood that membership would be
> required when
> she prepared the proposal, so it was budgeted and thoroughly
> justified. The
> project would have been impossible to complete without the
> data set and the
> accompanying membership fee. I can't imagine that an auditor
> would disallow
> that.
>
> Lee
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