Blackbaud

JUNE 20, 2025

If you are applying for federal funding, the OMB allows for the grant to pay up to 15% towards those costs not directly associated with the program, such as rent or support salaries. That’s often not enough to fully cover an organization’s costs, so many organizations solicit unrestricted funding from donors or private grants to fill the gap.

Indirect Cost

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The bill aims to ameliorate the complex nature of the grant application process, as well as the lack of transparency and accountability around funding decision processes, which are currently opaque at best. The GREAT Act requires that federal grant recipients establish and use data standards for information reported to funding agencies.

Federal Grants

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The topic is research funding. Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. In this post, we share what we’ve learned about finding research funding based on our experience working with faculty at US-based universities.

Funding

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

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. Has there been a grant or two that we ended up passing on because the group could not agree on splitting the funding? Has this worked all the time?

Indirect Cost