URI Master Gardener Program Budget Request Form 2018
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This form serves as your budget request to the URIMGP operating budget. Draft budget requests should be submitted via this online form by October 16, 2017 and final budget requests are due November 1, 2017. Contact your Council Coordinator with questions.
Excerpt from URIMGP Operating Guidelines. TABLE 3.2: Allowable URIMGP Expenses |
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Type | Allowable (to support public education) | Not Allowable |
EMG Services (e.g. Kiosks, Soil Testing, Public Presentations) | Educational display materials | Refreshments |
Books and reference materials | Event exhibitor fees | |
Electronics for reference (e.g. iPads) and public presentations (e.g. projectors) | ||
Soil testing equipment, brochures | ||
Printed educational and program collateral, postage | ||
Demonstration Projects | Soil amendments (e.g. compost, mulch, fertilizers) | Refreshments |
Plant tags, signage explaining practices | Entertainment (e.g. music) | |
Garden demonstration materials used for teaching purposes (e.g. row covers, trellising materials, irrigation, IPM or other pest control tools, lumber for raised beds, specific plants not available from MGP greenhouses) | Installation and/or rehabilitation of permanent structures (e.g. fences, storage sheds, greenhouses). These will be considered per special request, with preference given to cost-sharing with project hosts. | |
Books and reference materials | ||
Selected tools, if needed | ||
Rentals as approved (e.g. port-a-john, space) | ||
Soil test fees from UConn or UMass | ||
Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) checks if needed. See State Program Leader to clarify if working with youth under 18. | ||
School Garden Mentor Locations | Lesson plan supplies to be used in the garden | Refreshments |
Teacher training materials (e.g. garden user guides) | Installation and/or rehabilitation of permanent structures (e.g. fences, storage sheds, greenhouses) | |
Curriculum units, garden journals, books and reference material | School personnel stipends (e.g. teachers, maintenance) | |
Plant tags, educational signage | Gardening materials (e.g. row covers, trellising materials, fertilizers, IPM tools, lumber for raised beds, irrigation systems) | |
Youth gardening tools and other tools as approved | ||
Soil test fees from UConn or UMass; URI Plant Protection Clinic fees | ||
Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) checks | ||
Soil amendments (compost, fertilizer) |