{"id":3039,"date":"2020-09-09T08:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:50:15","slug":"maximum-and-minimum-effort-on-sponsored-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/2020\/09\/09\/maximum-and-minimum-effort-on-sponsored-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum and Minimum Effort on Sponsored Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Generally, faculty cannot commit&nbsp;<strong>100%<\/strong>&nbsp;of their effort to sponsored projects, as time must be reserved for other CSU duties. For Administrative Professionals and State Classified staff, 100% effort devoted to sponsored projects&nbsp;<em>may<\/em>&nbsp;be appropriate. &nbsp;However, allocations of effort to sponsored projects must be reasonable given the individual\u2019s non-sponsored University activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the flip side, all Key Personnel on a sponsored project must devote&nbsp;<em>at least<\/em>&nbsp;a&nbsp;<strong>1%<\/strong>&nbsp;commitment to that project, with a few exceptions such as equipment grants and dissertation grants.&nbsp; If sponsor restrictions or budget limitations don\u2019t allow for the reimbursement of Key Personnel salary and there is no mandatory cost share requirement, the Key Personnel effort on the project (at least 1%) should be tracked internally in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/osp\/forms\/\">1% Minimum Effort Cost Share Account Request<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More detailed information can be found in the resources below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/policylibrary.colostate.edu\/policy.aspx?id=756\">CSU\u2019s Effort Policy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/effort-certification-reporting-technology-ecrt\/\">Effort Policy FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/effort-certification-reporting-technology-ecrt\/\">Effort\/ecrt information page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Blog post by Ben Egolf, Financial Research Accounting Manager, Office of Sponsored Programs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, faculty cannot commit&nbsp;100%&nbsp;of their effort to sponsored projects, as time must be reserved for other CSU duties. For Administrative Professionals and State Classified staff, 100% effort devoted to sponsored projects&nbsp;may&nbsp;be appropriate. &nbsp;However, allocations of effort to sponsored projects must be reasonable given the individual\u2019s non-sponsored University activities. On the flip side, all Key Personnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[47,49,48],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sponsored-programs-administration","tag-effort","tag-effort-certification","tag-effort-reporting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}