Budget Narrative

Budget Narrative
Personnel
The founder of the organization, Melody Raftis who will devote 100 percent of her time, planning, implementing, evaluating as well as orchestrate activities for the organization will receive an annual salary of $40,000. She will also be in charge of focus group discussions and will assist all participants with encouragement when the focus group is not in session. Melody will also recruit volunteers such as physicians, as well as nurses to help implement the program. Melody will also make routine visits to physician’s offices as well as community programs to help recruit eligible participants who would benefit from the program.
The co-founder which has not been decided as of yet, will aid Melody Raftis in implementing,

They will be in charge of making participants’ packets, research, managing surveys, as well as assist with evaluating the program. The graduate students will be hired based on a $12.00 per hour and will work approximately 20 hours per week for 52 weeks. The budget has allotted $23,040 for both salaries.
The nurse practitioner will be required to work full time with an annual salary of $38,000 per year. The nurse practitioner will work along the guidelines of the program so that they can advise participants about medication and assist with constructing meal plans for each participant. The nurse practitioner will not have the ability to write scripts, but is solely there to recommend information that the participants should discuss with the primary care

Sheet protectors for the educational material will cost $5.00 for a count of 50 which we have requested two boxes with a final price of $10.00. We have requested to supply each participant with folders so that they can keep their educational material in an orderly fashion. The cost of the folders is $10.00 a box which contains 25 folders. We have requested four boxes which will give us a price of $40.00. We have also budgeted for four staplers and four boxes of staples. The stapler will cost us $7.00 per unit and $7.00 per box of staples. The final price of the staplers and staples will be $56.00. Next we have budgeted eight laser printer toners. The cost of the laser printer toner is $60. The toner will allow us to print over 1,100 pages of information. The cost of eight toner cartilages will be $480.00 per year. Next we would like to purchase pens for our participants to complete surveys and to jot down notes during our focus group meetings. Our budget for the pens, for six boxes will be $30.00. In addition, we would like to employee a shredding service for paperwork that is required to be shredded. Our price for a shredding service will be $35 a month, which will give us a total of $420 a year. Finally, our program will need to have access to the internet and a phone service. The