Submission Checklist

Checklist to meet our requirements

1. Make sure you understand the purpose of the SARE program with its emphasis on innovation, profitability, good stewardship, and widespread benefit to farmers and the farm community.
2. Talk the project over with your cooperaters and with supervisors and appropriate colleagues to make sure you have addressed any obvious problems with your project's concept or design.
3. Do the necessary background work by investigating past SARE Sustainable Community Grant projects and learning what is available through other resources. Be proactive about gathering the knowledge you will need to make your proposal interesting and well informed.
4. Show your proposal to other people and listen carefully to any comments they may have. Minimally, your supervisor or board chair must read and approve your application, but co-workers may have valuable comments as well.
5. Verify that you are not asking for things SARE does not fund--read the applications materials carefully. All requests should be limited to direct, permitted project costs for time, materials, outreach, and other allowed expenses.
6. Check your budget against your narrative to make sure there is a very close fit between the project description and the items you are asking SARE to fund. Double-check your totals and then, as a last step, round your request to the nearest dollar.
7. Make sure the application components are all there and in the right order, and that you mail the application before the postmark deadline.