Negotiate a Budget Promise Before It Breaks
Use cost principles to challenge an unfunded narrative promise.
Marta M Program Director 1 Name the mismatch 2 Find the tradeoff 3 Close the decision During a 4:00 p.m. draft review, the program director wants to add weekend workshops. Finance says the current budget has no overtime, security, or childcare. The deadline is in six days. The conversation matters because grant quality depends on shared constraints, not heroic solo drafting. sections affected by this call misaligned promise can sink the budget 2 CFR Part 200 cost principles Budget conversations protect implementation credibility. matters because grant reviewers are not reading for effort; they are reading for fit, evidence, feasibility, and…
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