Budget
Intermediate District 287 & Northeast Metro 916 Grants and Research Office (GRO)
- The budget must reflect the resources that will be required to achieve the program objectives.
- A program should not be designed to fit a budget. Rather, the budget should be designed to fit the program.
The budget is developed after all of the other sections of the proposal are developed.
- Key elements of a program budget need to be justified and briefly described, with the following components included:
Salary rate structures must be detailed.
Fringe benefits for each category must be identified.
Travel details should be commensurate with the applicant’s policies.
Unusual requests need to be detailed and justified, equipment items detailed by model references.
All supplies and services should be itemized.
- Indirect costs in concurrence with the policies of the applicant and the sponsoring agency.
- The budget is an operational statement of the project in monetary terms.