Line Item Budget 1

Excerpt from a grant to gather faculty for post-conference workshops at two successive meetings of the American Academy of Religion.

Line Item Budget
	First Meeting	Second Meeting	Total
Lodging	18 x $172= $3096	19 x $165 = $3135	$6231
Food	18 x $125= $2250	19 x $125= $2375	$4625
Meeting Room	$420	$420	$840
Stipend and fringe benefits for administrator	$500	$500	$1000
Stipends for workshop consultants	5 x $300= $1500	5 x $300= $1500	$3000
Stipends for workshop facilitators	7 x $250= $1750	7 x $250= $1750	$3500
Administration and supplies	$400	$403	$803
Total			$19,999

Budget Narrative

One of our participants is only able to attend the second workshop (though she will be part of the process in other ways in the fall of 2008), so the budget reflects 18 participants in the first workshop and 19 in the second.

Lodging

We will all require lodging for one night for each workshop.
This budget assumes we will get conference rates through the AAR, and that the rate in Chicago will be slightly higher than in Montreal (because of the Canadian dollar).

Food

This budget allows for hotel catering for all meals. We will require lunch and dinner on the first day of each workshop and breakfast the second day, we will also need snacks, coffee, and tea, and it would be nice to have a pre-dinner reception as well. In consultation with Wabash staff, we have budgeted $125.00 per person for each workshop.

Meeting Rooms (AAR Rates)

• $55 per 2.5-hour block X 4 per workshop = $220
• $25 Room Set Change Fee for other than theater set X 2 per workshop=$50
• $75 Catered event cleaning and ordering fee (food and beverage payment arranged directly with meeting facility) X 2 per workshop = $150
• = $420 per workshop

Stipends

• Project director will ensure meeting rooms are booked, food is ordered, supplies are present, and stipends are paid. For this work he will receive $500.00 per workshop.
• Consultants will receive $300.00 for each workshop. The stipend for them is based on their expertise on teaching about religion in institutions of higher education and their experience with running teaching workshops. Their ability to enhance the cooperation and productive dialogue among participants will be of great value to the workshop and merits a larger stipend.
• Each participant will help with planning and facilitating one of the sessions in one of the workshops, for which they will receive a stipend of $250.00.

Administration and supplies/per workshop

• Student administrative assistant, to help participant administrator: 10 hours X $10.00 + $7.65 FICA benefits =$107.65
• giant pads 4 pack 89.99
• note pads 12 pack 4.98 X 2 =10.00
• markers 12 pack 5.58 X 2= 12.00
• tax and delivery =38.00
• photocopies =95.00
• postage= 50.00

Total Administrative Costs = $403 per workshop