General Requirements

Funded projects

Once your project is funded, you need to be aware of SARE's general requirements. Key points are:

• Professional Development Grants are paid as reimbursements
This means you or your grants office must submit invoices to us with documentation of project costs. These costs must be in keeping with the budget that came with your proposal.
• We require annual reports each year at the end of December and a final report 60 days after the project ends.
Northeast SARE places a high value on reports. Reports are not complicated to write, but if you don't write them your grant payments will be denied or delayed.
• We will reimburse up to 90 percent of the award and hold the balance until we get a satisfactory final report
• The outreach component of your project should acknowledge SARE support and use the SARE logo. We ask that you use the following language: "[partial] funding for the work reported here was provided by the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program." You can leave out the word "partial" if all the money came from SARE, and you can use the same space to acknowledge other support. You can download the Northeast SARE logo here.

Final reports and awards

As mentioned above, a final report is due within 60 days of project completion, and we will always hold a portion of the award until we have everything we need to close the project.