General Requirements

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

Key points are:

  • Annual reports must be timely, descriptive, and complete. Annual reports are due on or before December 31 of each year.
  • Graduate Student Grants are paid as reimbursements. This means your institution must submit invoices to us as the project progresses, and project costs must be in keeping with the budget that came with your proposal.
  • We will reimburse up to 90 percent of the award and hold the remaining funds until we get a satisfactory 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

Final reports are due within 60 days of the contracted end date of the project.
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