The cheat sheet “Calculating Travel Expenses” in Section Three of the Toolkit will help you think through travel from doorstep to doorstep.
this seems like it would be helpful
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Keep in mind as you set up your budget spreadsheet that most spon-sors will take six to nine months to make an award after your proposal is submitted. By the time your project is actually under way, you will prob-ably be into the next fiscal year. Most sponsors expect to see an inflation factor of about 3 percent each year. It is a good idea to inflate current sala-ries to account for the possibility of raises between submission of your proposal and award of your grant. Do this even if you do not expect those raises to happen.
do you mention "to account for inflation" in the budget? or just do the math on your own and increase by 3% ? Is this a dumb question? lol
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Use a spreadsheet template if you have one available. We have provided an Excel budget template in the online Toolkit for this book (see p. iv). Some sponsors also provide budget templates that will help you set up the spreadsheet for your project’s budget.
Is the budget section completely in a spreadsheet? or is spreadsheet in addition to explanation? ... All spreadsheet makes sense it's just a thought I had while reading
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If you are inexperienced with budget building, there is probably someone on your campus who can help. Your department or division may have access to a grant writing consultant.
I started this section and thought "if someone came to me for help with this idk what I'd do" Soooo good thing I'm reading this if we are the people that are supposed to be "experienced with budget building" and "can help" LOL
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One mistake we see occasionally is for the principal investigator or project director to equate the project narrative with the proposal as a whole and consequently spend nearly all of the proposal development time on the narrative, leaving everything else for the last minute. The proposal development timeline you read about in Chapter 5 will help you avoid this error. Because the narrative and the budget are two versions of the same story, they are best developed concurrently, in an iterative process in which each version of the story informs the development of the other. As you work through the details of your budget, you will likely realize the need to clarify points in the narrative that you otherwise may have missed.
Haha understandable how people do this. Money is sometimes awkward to talk about, so, it's like... 'Please read all the information I have written and hopefully I've convinced you to give me X amount of money, thank you, the end!' Like the fine print on a medication commercial. But the reality is, it's not the fine print, it is necessary to the continuation of the project. The better you explain/detail this section, the more you look like you know what you're talking about and have planned everything out to a T.
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Goal: Provide Child Protective Services workers with better tools to investigate child abuse cases.Objectives:1.Create a database for diverse human services cases of child abuse. [Product: The database will be completed.]2.Develop search tools to assist investigators. [Process: The search tools will be in development.]
Good example. Adding this to my mental toolbox of examples to use in the future.
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If you have difficulty stating your goal in one or two simple sentences, this could be a signal that you need to refine your project.
Good point. I like this.
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Goals and Objectives
I found this whole section very informative. It describes the difference in these so well. I have worked with quite a few clients who have been working on a "research proposal" paper and have admittedly been confused as to the 'point' of their proposal.. Many needed/ wanted to have more focus. This information is helpful and I will definitely use this in the future!
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Note that Sayers does not explicitly give the reviewer the where and when of the project. We recommend that you do so if space permits.
I feel like I would want to know where... especially if it's a long abstract like this. I would read and be wondering 'where is this going to take place??' the whole time.. Maybe that would make the person reading want to continue on to find out.. but for someone wanting a quick overview of the important points, I would think they'd want to know in the abstract.
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are shared with spouses and nonacademic friends, all to determine what the readers understand.
I like this explanation. Sometimes writers will get the idea that the abstract has to be fancy and elaborate, which can end up making it confusing. You want it to have the pieces of information it needs (as mentioned a few paragraphs above) but it also needs to be easily to understand by anyone who reads it... or else you're starting off on the wrong foot. I will use this info when working with clients on abstracts.
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