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Understanding Indirect Costs: A Brief Overview

Grant Professionals Association

Indirect costs are the backbone of an organization’s operations. Also known as overhead or administrative costs, they ensure organizations smooth functioning. In the grant sphere, indirect costs represent the expenses associated with general operation and support of an organization or project.

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Taking the Fear out of Grant Management: Indirect Cost Allocation By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

A grant manager is anyone involved in the management and administration of a grant (e.g., finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators). Have you ever wondered what indirect costs entail, or heard the term “de minimus rate” and questioned what that means?

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What’s New and What’s Next: Why Your Finance Team Should Attend bbcon 2024

Blackbaud

If your organization received some of the more than $1 trillion in federal government funding that was available in the past few years, you may now be trying to navigate the complex federal grant requirements.

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Untangling the New Uniform Grant Guidance

RBW Strategy

Since the original Uniform Grant Guidance was issued in 2014, federal grant recipients, subrecipients, and contractors have grumbled about the confusing jargon, lack of clarity, and general “squishiness” about some of the guidance’s language and how it applies to all recipients of federal funding.

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A Look at 2024 OMB Uniform Guidance Updates By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. Before 2013, federal grant requirements were located in multiple OMB circulars.

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Questions to Ask Before Responding to a Funding Opportunity

Peak Proposals

BUDGET A proposal budget is another area where the questions can be very specific to the solicitation at hand, although a few questions are standard fare, including: Are indirect costs allowable? Most funders list their policy on indirects in the solicitations. Is match (cost share) required?

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

If you understand how to build a project budget—and you are familiar with concepts like overhead, indirects, and fringe benefits and how they impact a project— it will make you a more competent grant seeker and ultimately project director if the proposal receives funding.

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