Budget

The final matter of your proposal will include the budget, budget justification, research schedule, data sharing plan, and any appendices you wish to include.

  1. Budget: use the official NSF Proposal Budget form to help you think about categories for the budget, but please prepare your budget on a regular computer with the categories listed below. Generally, grants are awarded for up to 24 months. The awards are for items not otherwise available at your university. Funds may be used for research expenses to conduct field research away from campus, data collection, payments to subjects/informants, specialized research equipment, specialized analysis, supplies (film, duplicate forms, etc.), travel to archives or collections, partial living expenses while away from ASU. Funds cannot be requested for PI salary, stipend, tuition, textbooks, journals, or preparing your dissertation. The budget may not exceed $20,000. These grants are exempt from university indirect costs.

    In your budget, have separate line items for personnel, equipment, travel, subsistence, materials/supplies, consultant fees, sample preparation costs, laboratory analysis costs. BE SPECIFIC and GET REAL COSTS!!!!

     

  2. Budget justification: the justification explains why you need the money for that item and where the specific figure comes from. It should be detailed (ex: 200 PCR reactions x $1.00 per reaction = $200) and it should be no longer than three pages (single spaced).
     
  3. Research schedule: This section is best done as a bulleted list with months/years for each task in your dissertation, ending with your graduation. (Ultimately, it should be included in the budget justification or at the end of the project description)

 

  1. Data sharing plan: This should detail how the data that you collect will be shared with the scientific community.
     
  2. Appendices: use appendices only where necessary for forms, permission letters (such as Human subject approval or letters stating that you can use a particular collection or piece of special equipment), or other supplementary material for your grant.