Public relations costs. This includes a lot of things, and this one is always, I always like this one because it talks about hospitality suites. Any of you ever been to a convention where you got to go to the hospitality suite? I guess I was never cool enough, I never got invited to those hospitality suites. People like to go to the hospitality suites because that’s typically where the booze is free and you have really good hors d'oeuvres. If you have something like that at a conference, you might even be putting on a conference, and at that conference, that’s an allowable cost, because that’s part of what you’re doing for your award. You have to pull out the piece that’s a hospitality suite and pay for that somewhere other than federal dollars. Hospitality suites, that type of social rooms, things like that, are not allowable to pay with a federal award. And just like airline companies are very effective in trying to confuse whether or not it’s a coach ticket, you can trust me that hotels are also very skilled at trying to bury costs like that, especially if it’s something that could be federally sponsored, so it makes it a little hard sometimes to figure out what it is. There’re some other costs under public relations that I want to point out to you as well. Anything that’s promotional, especially promotional for your organization, is typically going to be an unallowable cost. Memorabilia, gifts, models and souvenirs, and I was out doing a training on site atf this organization that had been doing a lot of NASA work. Now, I don’t have some of the actual medallions, but these guys that did NASA work, they had all these memorial coins. And they would hand these things out, I mean, they were, I bring poker chips because they were handing them out like poker chips. Here, have some of these. And each one of them would have the mission and a really cool diagram of what that mission was, or a picture of the spaceship, or whatever it is, and they’re handing all these out, and I’m thinking, wait a minute, aren’t those souvenirs? Wouldn’t those be unallowable? But each one was promoting a specific mission that was funded by NASA. And so, somehow, and again, sometimes things that were allowable in the past are now looked at a little differently, for some reason, they were able to still continue getting these memorial coins for each of their missions sent out so that they can hand out to people. And they were really cool, but my advice would be, if you’re doing that, don’t expect your federal award to pay for it. Get "grant-confident" with our wide selection of MyFedTrainer.com grant training and templates #learngrants be #grantready [ Ссылка ]
