<snip> <snip> Having worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and written a number of grant proposals, I can say that whether or not you include overhead depends both on to whom you are applying (do they allow overhead?) and the institution through which you are applying. Some institutions will let you get by without writing overhead into your grant, while others will insist on overhead greater than what you are asking for in the first place. Overhead rates are usually negotiated in advance between the institution and the granting agency, and the rates vary depending on the use of the money -? salary usually gets a higher overhead rate. At the FMNH, you couldn?t even _talk_ to funding sources without first clearing it with the grants office. The main reason for that was that, by asking the funding source about funding your project, you might jeopardize the funding of other projects that were already in the works or planned. Bob