Did you know that you can pay for childcare for your research participants while they are doing study activities? Find similar ideas to enhance your inclusion, recruitment, or retention of research participants in NIH’s new one-page tool: Allowable Costs Related to Participant Inclusion Activities on NIH Grants. The tool provides categorized examples of inclusion activities that typical NIH recipients could charge to their grants as allowable costs.
Consult with your recipient institution to confirm whether your planned inclusion activities will be feasible in your context and fit your institution’s policies, the notice of award, and the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
For background on allowable costs, refer to NIH Grants Policy Statement Section 7.9.
Topic: Subrecipients, Contractors, and Consultants
Hello ATSU Grants Community! Sponsored Programs, in conjunction with the Finance Office, will be delivering a series of grants management coaching memos, directives, and updates to support project directors, principal investigators, project teams, ATSU operations teams, and staff in fiscal management of grants awarded to ATSU.
Detailed Information
External collaborations on sponsored projects provide opportunities to strengthen the project team and project outcomes. When a grant applicant proposes federal award funds to flow to another entity, there is an obligation to make a case-by-case determination if the entity receiving funds is a subrecipient, contractor, or consultant.
Subrecipients are entities and organizations that receive a portion of award funding and are responsible for a portion of the project. Subrecipients have responsibility for programmatic decision-making and their performance is measured in relation to whether project objectives are met. A detailed subrecipient budget and a budget justification should be included in the grant proposal. ATSU Sponsored Programs is responsible for reviewing subrecipient budgets and designing subaward agreements for legal review.
Contractors are entities that provide goods or services ancillary to the operations of the program. Contractors normally operate in a competitive environment and provide similar goods or services to different purchasers via an established fee schedule. Contractors typically do not engage in strategic problem solving and their performance is not measured in relation to whether project objectives were met. Contracts of this nature are subject to the requirements of ATSU policies including but not limited to 10-204 Contract Review and Approval Process, 75-101 Purchase Policy and Procedure, 55-102 Hardware/Software Procurement, as well as the sponsor’s terms and conditions.
A consultant is an individual or business whose expertise is required to perform the project. Consultant services are temporary and highly specialized or technical and generally not available within the applicant’s organization. Consultants should be budgeted and paid at a reasonable rate as determined by the going rate for the locale, type of work, what the organization normally pays for comparable work, and what the sponsor permits. These agreements are also subject to 10-204 Contract Review and Approval Process.
See the full coaching memo PDF below.
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Webinars, Videos, and Other Resources to Help You With NIH Grants and Funding
Many applicants and grantees haven’t yet heard of all the free resources available to them on how to apply for National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and about the policies and processes that govern how NIH funds grants. Today, I’d like to tell you about some of the most popular among these resources. Other people in the research field, such as postdocs, trainees, research administrators, and grant writers, may also be interested.
The Division of Research, Grants & Scholarly Innovations (RGSI) consists of an administrative core and 3 departments: Sponsored Programs (SP), Research Support (RS), and A.T. Still Research Institute (ATSRI).