Please see this template for including this information. 

Electronic signatures were formally adopted by OSP in 2019. OSP uses "e-signing" on outgoing subaward agreements and amendments in addition to standard grants & contract documents. For example, many foundations now require the use of the Docusign tool for award endorsement. 

Please visit the Office of General Counsel's website, and consult their Contracts Signature Delegation  guide. In this guide, research is discussed on pp 13-14, and it is linked at their page's end (updated 9/25/19). 

Please see the Proposal Submission Guidance Chart 

A legislatively-mandated provision limiting the direct salary (also known as salary or institutional base salary, but excluding any fringe benefits and F&A costs) for individuals working on NIH grants, cooperative agreement awards, and extramural research and development contracts. The salary limitation rate applies to any individual whose salary is charged directly to awards from these agencies.

Please see: Use of On- and Off-Campus Facilities & Administrative Rates (a/k/a Indirect Costs)

Please see: Subaward vs Contractor

Please see the policy - Principal Investigator Eligibility for Sponsored Research Awards

There can be a fine line between Gifts (managed by Brown's Advancement Office) and Grants and Contracts (managed by the Office of Sponsored Projects). 

To make the correct categorization, here is a checklist to consider:  

Is the funding from an Individual (not an organization) ?  if Y = Gift

Is the funding from federal, state, or local government agency or a flow-through from one of these agencies ? if Y = Grant/Contract

Is the funding in response to a proposal with a specific statement of work or defined deliverables ? if Y = Grant/Contract