Global Initiatives Grant

Please e-mail the following documents as attachments to Judy Kreid at internationalprograms@wennergren.org. We will review your report and notify you when your grant is complete.  If a week goes by and you still haven’t heard from us, please contact the Foundation to check on the status of your award. Be sure to update all contact information (mailing address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, etc.) when you send the final report.

We would be grateful if you would submit the written part of your report in file formats compatible with Microsoft Word or Excel 2010. If you have any questions, please email Judy Kreid at internationalprograms@wennergren.org.

Your final report will be a brief blog entry discussing your project, including, where possible, photographs and/or other media for our website.  Unless you indicate otherwise, we will assume that you have given us permission to do so. We will also assume that we have your permission to use your name, a description of your research project, and the names of organizations you are associated with this.  If this is not the case, please let us know. Please only send us images that are ethically sourced. See Wenner-Gren’s Standards of Practice for Photographs and Videos.  (Limit: 1000 words)

Your abstract should summarize the final report.  Please write it in a style that is clearly understandable to a nonspecialist. (Limit: 200 words)

Please only include the budget items Wenner-Gren covered. Use a format similar to that used in the approved budget request. Itemize actual expenditures and show how you calculated these figures. During the course of your research, we will have expected you to seek advance approval for any significant changes from the original grant request. If you ended up making other changes without our permission, we invite you to fully explain them at this time. Please note that, in some cases, the Foundation may require you to reimburse us for unauthorized expenditures. We also expect you to return any unexpended grant funds upon completion of the project phase. You need not send us receipts, but we do recommend that you retain them for your own records.

Equipment. If any item of equipment purchased with Grant Funds at an original cost in excess of $2,500 still has monetary value at the end of the Grant Period, the grantee must choose among the following three alternatives: 1) return the resale value to the Foundation; 2) seek the Foundation’s permission to donate the equipment to an educational or scientific organization or community group, preferably in the country where the research was carried out; or 3) in cases of demonstrated need, seek the Foundation’s permission to retain the equipment, should its continued possession prove indispensable to the grantee’s ongoing research and scholarship.

Institutional Accountings. Grantees who elected to have payment made and administered through their institutions are responsible for verifying that the accounting is accurate and that the categories and amounts conform to the original budget request. If the accounting is acceptable, the grantee should sign it to indicate their approval. If it is not, the grantee must prepare a separate accounting as described above.