Accounting for payments to community partners

If you are using community partners on a project and they will be receiving payment for their work:

If their work totals more than $600 take-home, and they will require a work order and a 1099, they must be accounted for in the project budget as a team member, with the Athena mark-up.

If their work is less than $600 take-home, and they will not require a work order (i.e. a small stipend for participating in a focus group) or a 1099, then they can be accounted for as a project hard cost and do not need to be added as a team member with allocated hours.