Question

What is a realistic overhead percentage to put in a proposal?

kwame_boatengContributor··1 view
I have been told 7 percent, 15 percent and "never mention it".

2 replies

naledi_sContributor·
Whatever the funder allows, which is on their website. Asking for less than the cap does not make you look efficient, it makes you look like you will run out.
thabo_mScout·
And underfunding your own administration is how organisations quietly fall apart in year two.

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