Once you have found a suitable sponsor for your project, the preparation work begins. “Ask for It/Preparing a Proposal” offers extensive resources to help you navigate the process and understand Duke policies and practices. You will find sources for application forms, instructions for developing budgets, current fringe benefit rates, and information often required by sponsors such as Duke's various identification numbers, or its IRB assurance numbers. This section also includes a series of guides to help you understand issues such as types of proposals, allowable and unallowable costs, cost sharing and clearances among others.