The scope of the project/program in the grant requires additional staff support, such as an administrative assistant.
The project or program requires a building or site to either be constructed or renovated in order to accommodate the needs of the grant and the scope of the program.
If this is a collaborative project/program, these are the persons working on the grant/project/program with you.
A faculty member needs funding to cover the time where they will not be teaching a course, but will be researching or directing the project/program the grant is funding. This could include coverage for the faculty member selected to take over the PIs workload. Please refer to the Course Release information in the Pre-Award section of this page.
The foundation from which you are seeking funding.
MSMU has a federally negotiated Indirect Cost Rate agreement. If possible, this rate should be used in a proposal. Private foundations often do not allow the full negotiated rate to be used. Indirect cost rate discussions will be a part of the budgeting process for your proposal.
Also known as facilities and administration (F&A), indirect costs are used for the benefit of the institution to recover costs not directly included in the grant itself. For example, indirect costs can reimburse the cost of time, labor, or material associated with writing the grant proposal and carrying out the project for the university, the PI, the academic dean, department, school, the provost and also the grants administrator and grants financial administrator.
For projects where other university resources are required to fully fund the project or program. These could include hiring additional staff members, faculty course release time, building or space renovations, IT or technical support or other costs. These are detailed on the back of the internal routing form.
The project/program involves research or testing which includes human/animal subjects. This can range from using a survey to gather data and results to performing experiments or research on human or animal subjects.
The project or program requires IT or technical support on the part of the university outside of what is already in place.
Occasionally, the grant requested requires the University to match funding at a specified ration in order for the grant to be funded. Matching funds will be discussed in the budgeting process.
Equipment purchased as part of the grant will incur general upkeep and maintenance out of the university’s funds in order for it to remain operational.
Any other possible costs which would not be covered under the grant funds.
The overall program within which your project is included (if applicable).
Person writing the grant and who will be working on/overseeing the project. Typically at the academic level, this is the professor.
The date your project/program will begin and the anticipated ending date.
The date the proposal is due to the funding agency and the date by which you can reasonably expect to receive a decision.
For a project spanning multiple years, this refers to the total funding to be expended in the first year.