Always include indirect project costs when breaking out a project budget. If
you do not include staff and administrative time as well as other overhead,
you will never be able to assess what a project really costs your
organization.

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From: "Jeremy T. Chrabascz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Staff in exhibit budgets?


> I'd like to cast a wider net and open an official discussion on this one
as
> I've been receiving much disagreement/conflicting opinions on it -
>
> Should a museum budget ($$$) its own, internal staff time into an exhibit?
>
> Some say that staff time is already being budgeted and paid anyway while
> others say that you still work it in as an in-kind donation of services of
> sorts but it should still be part of the total.  Some grants require staff
> time to be calculated in, don't they?  YOUR THOUGHTS?  Thanks in advance
> for your time and consideration.
>
> Jeremy T. Chrabascz, Curator of Furnishings
> Indiana State Museum & Historic Sites
>
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