Managing Your Grant

If you are a grantee or a member of a project team, you can use this section to find out about how to manage your SARE award. You may also want to read this section to understand SARE's expectations before submitting a grant application.

General Requirements

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

• All SARE grants are paid as reimbursements
• We require annual reports each year and a final report 45 days after the project ends.
• 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 Southern SARE logo here.
• Refer to the Project Photo Tips  for taking project photos that will catch the editor's eye.

Final reports and awards

As mentioned above, a final report is due within 45 days of project completion, and we will always hold a portion of the award until we have everything we need to close the project.

Our financial requirements

Find out about tracking project expenses, invoicing requirements and documentation of how funds were spent in this section on financial requirements.

Our reporting requirements

Reporting requirements are an important aspect of all grants. Find out report due dates, access templates, and where to get your reporting questions answered.

If you are having problems

You can get help if you are experiencing a problem with your project. The SARE staff is ready to support you.