Project Budget 
Considering that this project intends to promote widespread cultivation of Permaculture principles, we recognize that we must apply these principles to our grant-seeking and project development processes.  Accordingly, we have deliberately practiced these principles in devising our budget—by using available resources whenever possible, stacking functions, building relationships with potential collaborators, and inserting this project within a ‘guild’ (in this case, of Permaculture resources) to prevent from “reinventing the wheel,” and instead achieving symbiosis with already existing entities.  

In so doing, we have eliminated many costs from our former budget, including: web hosting/server, which the Ibiblios.org site has agreed to provide free of charge; project-participant meeting, which we have combined with dissemination/presentation/conference costs (conduct meeting while attending a Permaculture convention, instead of as an isolated event); marketing/publicity, which we plan to perform ourselves through magazine articles, email, and related listservs and forums; and perhaps most significantly, web-development software, which we plan to use open-source versions of, such as MySQL, PHP, Zope, and Touchgraph.  With that, our remaining budget costs include:

Equipment/Technology 
License costs of datasets/photo galleries—access to 1,000+ images on The Plants For A Future photo gallery	$800	
Website—Domain name	$10-$15 per year	
Total	$815	

Travel Expenses
Project-participant meeting & Dissemination/Presentation/Conference visits—for all project participants to simultaneously convene in person and present/gather information at Permaculture conference
	$1,000 total travel cost
$700 total conference fee
$1700 total per event (plan 2 per year)	
Research—conducting on-site research/interviews 	$700/year	
Total	$2,400	

Research Tools
Books	$30	
Journal Subscriptions	$30	
Total	$60	

Wages 
Stephanie Gerson—Project Coordination/Administration, Public Relations, HCI/UI Design, Interactive Education Design 	$15/hour	
Richard Morris—Programming, Web Development	$15/hour	
John Schinnerer—User-testing, Whole Systems Design	$15/hour	
Chad Knepp—Programming, Backend Development, Technical Expertise	$15/hour	
Total	$60,000	

Communications
Telephone Service	$5/month/person 	
Internet Service	$25/month/person	
Total	$2,160	

     							Total Budget Cost $64,435*

*Note: we received a grant for $10,000 from the Threshold Foundation in July of 2005.