Details of personnel salary and benefit rates, travel rates, equipment needs, supplies, computer rates, and indirect cost rates are among the items usually included. Include vitae for the project director and key personnel. Some grantors have a specific format for vitae and may specify a page limitation or that only recent publications should be included. If guidelines are not mentioned, keep the vita short-two to five pages is adequate. Include granting agency, project title, amount awarded or requested, project period, percent of effort committed by the individual, and project location.
Some grantors also require a brief description of the project.
Depending on the format for the main part of the proposal, some of the components described here separately may be included as appendices. Some grantors do not allow appendices.