General Requirements

Funded projects

After your project is funded, we will send you a booklet about managing the grant and meeting SARE's other requirements, but the essence of that booklet is also available here. Keep in mind:

• Farmer Grants are paid as reimbursements.This means you 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 will reimburse up to 50 percent of the award and hold the second half until we get a final report. Northeast SARE places a high value on good reports. Reports are not complicated to write, but if you don't write them your grant payments will be denied or delayed.
• 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.
• You should contact your technical advisor or the SARE office promptly if the project is not going as planned. Farming is full of surprises, and it's important to talk to someone if your SARE project veers off its intended path. Good communication is an important component of any SARE project. If your project runs into trouble because of weather, personnel changes, or other unexpected developments, SARE will work with you to see if the project can go forward and how.