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As education funding becomes more the responsibility of.faculty members at higher education institutions and teachers at public and private K-12 schools, writing successful grant proposals is an essential skill. With several years experience as a productive grant proposal writer, Project Director, and Principal Investigator, the author shares eight lessons learned when writing the b11;dget ofa grant proposal. With the financial crises that many higher education institutions and public and private K12 schools are facing, schools must increase resources by receiving grant and foundation funds. Faculty and teachers that previously concentrated on teaching and research are now additionally responsible for procuring monies for their institutions. Neophyte grant writers need assistance, especially in creating budgets. Krathwohl (1977) defines budget as "an operational statement of the project in monetary terms (p. 47)." New project directors who have "inherited" budgets not developed by them can attest to the difficulty of administering grants with poorly designed budgets. Most grant proposal writers include the major components of the budget such as salaries, fringe benefits, travel, and supplies. Many authors have written articles on how to excel in grant proposal writing (Bayley, 1995; Krathwohl, 1977; Sexton, 1982; Ward, 2002). These usually include several general suggestions. First, grant proposal writers must find funding agencies that have the same interests and goals as the school and make sure these are targeted in the proposal, such as balding key words or phrases from the Request for Proposal (RFP). Second, all guidelines must be met (including submission deadlines) and the proposal must be written in the required format. Third, for proposals with limitations to the length of the proposal, charts, timelines and graphs can often preseut more information than a narrative in the same amount of space. Fourth, grant proposal writers must make sure that the proposal has enough time to go through the proper channels of the institution for administrative approval. Finally, as all successful grant proposal writers will agree, the proposed budget must match the narrative and neophyte applicants must be careful that their estimated costs are accurate and not inflated; however, inexperienced writers may not be able to foresee items that should he included (Sexton, 1982; Ward, 2002). As a grant evaluator for over fifteen years and an experienced project director and principal investigator, the author has learned several smaII lessons in budget development that grant proposal writers need to address which are usually not addressed in general grant proposal writmg. SPRING 2004 71 1 Barfield: Eight Mini-Lessons in Budgeting for Grant Proposal Writing Published by PDXScholar, 2004 Mini-Lesson #1: Make sure you have a more than adequate number of positions to implement the project. It is far easier to cancel positions originally allocated and relocate those personnel monies elsewhere than to ask your funding agency for more money for new positions not in the proposal. In one project the author spent six months gathering personnel data to justify a new position. Be sure and investigate the number of positions and their duties from similar grants to determine the number of positions needed in the