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Types of Grants

We offer seven different grant opportunities throughout the Southern region. Learn more about each one to determine which grant is right for you.

Cows grazing on pigeon pea

Research & Education Grants

Research and Education projects are conducted by teams of interdisciplinary researchers specializing in sustainable agricultural systems.

integrated crop and livestock management

Large Systems Research Grants

Large Systems Research Grants are for systems research teams who have successful ongoing long-term systems research programs, but need support to accomplish additional long-term research goals.

PDP

Professional Development Grants

The Professional Development program provides sustainable agriculture education and outreach strategies for Cooperative Extension Service personnel, Natural Resources Conservation Service staff and others who work directly with farmers and ranchers.

Mining bees pollinating apple blossoms.

On-Farm Research Grants

On-Farm Research Grants are conducted by agricultural professionals on one or more working farms to help their farmer clients find sustainable solutions to problems.

Rotational grazing

Producer Grants

A competitive grants program for farmers to conduct research, marketing and education projects.

Sweetgrass Co-op

Sustainable Community Innovation Grants

Sustainable Community Innovation Grants are jointly administered by Southern SARE and the Southern Rural Development Center for the purpose of linking sustainable agriculture with healthy economic community development.

University of Arkansas research on bumblee nesting boxes.

Graduate Student Grants

SARE Graduate Student Grants are one of the few research funding opportunities open to Master's and PhD students throughout the Southern region.

 

Reviewers Drive SARE Funding

SARE depends on rigorous, engaged technical reviewers. Should you be one of them? 
There are many reasons for supporters of sustainable agriculture to invest in reviewing proposals. Here's just a few:

  • Southern SARE's technical proposal reviewers have the responsibility for directing how SARE funds are awarded. The technical reviewers evaluate and rank individual proposals based on scientific soundness.
  • Although the SARE Administrative Council makes the final funding decisions, their decisions are informed by the work of the technical reviewers. Former SARE grantees have a professional responsibility to give back to the program. No one understands the importance of SARE funding better than our own project investigators.
  • It is very important to have technical reviewers from all disciplines so that strong comments about the proposals’ merits can be sent back to the applicants.

Interested in being a proposal reviewer? Refer to the administrator listed in the Call for Proposal of the grant you are interested in reviewing.