Final Performance Report

Final Performance Report

Award Years 2016 Forward

A Final Performance Report must be received within 90 days after the end of the grant agreement. You are required to report on the administration of the agreement and each project approved within the agreement. The completed Final Performance Report will be posted to the AMS website.

Grant Information

Agreement

AMS Agreement Number:	Enter Agreement Number (e.g., 16SCBGPXX####).
Period of Performance:	Start Date:	Enter Date.	End Date:	Enter Date.
Award Amount:

Recipient

Recipient Organization Name:
Recipient’s Point of Contact
Name:
Phone:
Email:

Report

Report Type:	Enter the Type of Annual Report (e.g., 1st Annual, 2nd Annual).
Date Report is Submitted:	Enter Date.

Grant Administration

If funds were used for grant administration, indicate the amount of funding expended from the beginning of the grant to the end of the reporting period covered by this report. Also, indicate the amount charged as indirect expenses versus the amount charged as direct expenses.

Amount Requested	Direct and/or Indirect Expended to Date

Final Project Report Template

Final Performance Reports must illustrate the completion of each project within the grant agreement. Each project shall be outlined as separate project profiles. You will report on projects in the same order they were submitted in the approved application and subsequent amendments.

Project Information

Project Title	Enter Project Title as Stated on the Grant Agreement.
Recipient Organization Name:	Enter Recipient Organization Name.
Period of Performance:	Start Date:	Enter Date.	End Date:	Enter Date.
Recipient’s Project Contact
Name:	Enter the Project Contact’s Name.
Phone:	Enter the Project Contact’s Phone Number.
Email:	Enter the Project Contact’s Email.

Performance Narrative

pROJECT bACKGROUND

Provide enough information for the reader to understand the importance or context of the project. This section may draw from the background and justification contained in the approved project proposal.

Activities Performed

Address the below sections as they relate to the entire project’s period of performance.

Objectives

Provide the approved project’s objectives.

#	Objective	Completed?
		Yes	No*
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*If no is selected for any of the listed objectives, you must expand upon this in the challenges and lessons learned sections.

Accomplishments

List your accomplishments for the project’s period of performance, including the impact they had on the project’s beneficiaries, and indicate how these accomplishments assist in the fulfillment of your project’s objective(s), outcome(s), and/or indicator(s).

#	Accomplishment or Impact	Relevance to Objective, Outcome, and/or Indicator
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Challenges and Developments

Provide any challenges to the completion of your project or any positive developments outside of the project’s original intent that you experienced during this project. Also, provide the corrective actions you took to address these issues. If you did not attain an approved objectives, outcome(s), and/or indicator(s), provide an explanation in the Corrective Actions column.

#	Challenge or Development	Corrective Action or Project Change
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Lessons Learned

Provide recommendations or advice that others may use to improve their performance in implementing similar projects.

Continuation and Dissemination of Results (If Applicable)

Describe your plans for continuing the project (sustainability; capacity building) and/or disseminating the project results.

Beneficiaries

Number of project beneficiaries: Enter Number of Project Beneficiaries

Outcome(s) and Indictator(s)/Sub-Indicator(s)

Provide the results of the project outcome(s) and indicator(s) as approved in your application and project proposal. The results of the outcome(s) and indicator(s) will be used to evaluate the performance of the Program on a national level.

Outcome Measure(s)

Select the Outcome Measure(s) that were approved for your project.

☐ Outcome 1: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through increased sales

☐ Outcome 2: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through increased consumption

☐ Outcome 3: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through increased access

☐ Outcome 4: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops though greater capacity of sustainable practices of specialty crop production resulting in increased yield, reduced inputs, increased efficiency, increased economic return, and/or conservation of resources

☐ Outcome 5: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through more sustainable, diverse, and resilient specialty crop systems

☐ Outcome 6: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through increasing the number of viable technologies to improve food safety

☐ Outcome 7: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through increased understanding of the ecology of threats to food safety from microbial and chemical sources

☐ Outcome 8: Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through enhancing or improving the economy as a result of specialty crop development

Outcome Indicator(s)

Provide the indicator approved for your project and the related quantifiable result. If you have multiple outcomes and/or indicators, repeat this for each outcome/indicator (add more rows as needed).

#	Outcome and Indicator	Quantifiable Results
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Data Collection

Explain what data was collected, how it was collected, the evaluation methods used, and how the data was analyzed to derive the quantifiable indicator.

Federal Project Expenditures

Expenditures

Cost Category	Amount Approved in Budget	Actual Federal Expenditures (Federal Funds ONLY)
Personnel
Fringe Benefits
Travel
Equipment
Supplies
Contractual
Other
Direct Costs Sub-Total
Indirect Costs
Total Federal Costs

Program Income (if applicable)

Source/Nature (i.e., registration fees)	Amount Approved in Budget	Actual Amount Earned
1.
2.
3.
Total Program Income Earned

Use of Program Income

Describe how the earned program income was used to further the objectives of this project.

Additional Information

Provide additional information available (i.e., publications, websites, photographs) that is not applicable to any of the prior sections.

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