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Collaboration—Love it or Hate it?

Grant Professionals Association

Or my favorite—when one organization has a NICRA (Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement) of 47% while the other three organizations use the 10% de minimus rate, and this causes a stir. I’ve even negotiated that none of us ask for Indirect Costs so all the money goes directly to the program! Has this worked all the time?

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Specifically, the changes include but are not limited to: raising the threshold value for Single Audits to $1,000,000 from $750,000 raising the threshold for indirect cost rate to 15% for organizations without a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) raising the equipment threshold from $5,000 to $10,000 for that which may be sold or retained (..)

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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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