Information for Current PIs
This page has documents, forms and other information for our current and recent principal investigators for travel, reporting and branding.
- Time-sensitive: 2013 Annual Meeting information
Please email us if you cannot find what you are looking for. Thank you!
Travel
- Pre-Approval for travel form (docx) Anyone traveling on Horticulture CRSP funds must complete a pre-approval for travel form at least 30 days prior to travel (traveling to India, Nepal, and Cambodia require further advance notice).
- Trip report form (docx) Include this form in Horticulture CRSP performance reports.
- Fly America Act waiver checklist (PDF) If you have traveled with a non-U.S. carrier.
Reporting
Slight differences exist in forms used by project principal investigators (pilot, comprehensive, continuing and focus projects) and by Regional Centers of Innovation. Please use our online depository to send us large files, including photographs, flyers and other deliverables.
Financial reminder: All recipients must verify that their vendors are not listed on the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List maintained by the U.S. Treasury or the United National Security designation list.
For Project PIs:
- Indicators table (xls) Submit this form with your performance report.
- Performance reports template (docx)
- Training:
- U.S. training form (doc) This form is for bringing trainees to the United States and must be filed with Horticulture CRSP three months before the training.
- In-country and third-country training form (xlsx) This spreadsheet is for any trainings conducted outside of the United States and must be submitted with the performance reports.
- Financial: Contact the Horticulture CRSP fiscal team for a customized budget.
For Regional Centers of Innovation:
- Performance report template (docx) This is the template for the performance report.
- Indicators table (xlsx) Submit this form with your performance report.
- Training form (xlsx) This spreadsheet is for any trainings conducted at the Regional Center of Innovation and is to be submitted with the performance reports.
- Financial: Contact the Horticulture CRSP fiscal team for a customized budget.
Branding
We are the Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program, funded by USAID and managed by UC Davis.
Horticulture CRSP is the shortened form of our program name for use in text ("HortCRSP" is only for logos and some account names).
In the future, we expect that our name will be the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Horticulture. The shortened form of that name will be Horticulture Innovation Lab. (Please no acronyms or other shortened words.)
The information on this page is accurate as of this date, and we will continue to update this information and directions as soon as we make changes. You will receive official notice of the name change when adjustments are made to our contracts. Please check back to this page when you are creating a poster or presentation to ensure that you are using the correct branding, logos, etc.
- Logos: All products of this program must include the USAID and Horticulture CRSP logos prominently. See your Marking and Branding contract for additional details.
- USAID logos for online and print; tips for how to best use the USAID logo are available in the USAID Graphic Standards Manual.
- Horticulture CRSP logos (zip) for print and presentations. Please contact Brenda Dawson if you have any questions or need different versions of these files.
- Disclaimer: When including the USAID logo, you must also include the appropriate form of this disclaimer:
"This [poster, presentation, etc.] is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of Horticulture CRSP [YOUR PROJECT OR TEAM NAME] and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government."
- Horticulture CRSP materials: Our Media page has program factsheets, flyers, brochures and posters. Photos are available from our Flickr account and videos from our YouTube channel. Please contact us if you are looking for additional items to help you promote your work with Horticulture CRSP.
- Taking photos: The USAID photo guide (pdf) provides some tips and considerations for how to tell your stories in photographs. Please share your photographs with Horticulture CRSP so that we can use them to publicize your work and the program. Best to send your photos unedited, in largest file possible. Photos can be sent individually or zipped in a folder at our online depository.
- Writing style, word choices: Horticulture CRSP style guide is updated as necessary, to standardize some of the most frequently used-and-confused terms in Horticulture CRSP usage.
- Writing press releases: We are happy to provide support if you have a press release to write, or you can use our press release guide (docx) for tips or as a template. Also if you are writing your own press release, you should clearly spell out your USAID and Horticulture CRSP funding in addition to a sentence substantially similar to:
"The U.S. Agency for International Development administers the U.S. foreign assistance program providing economic and humanitarian assistance in more than 80 countries worldwide."
- Creating USAID documents: The USAID Graphic Standards Manual provides tips for preferred layout and other USAID standards, including particulars of using the USAID logo correctly
- UC Davis branding: For the Horticulture CRSP ME team and UC Davis partners, the UC Davis Identity Standards provide logotype files as well as preferred colors, fonts, etc. Partners who are not affiliated with UC Davis are not required to include the UC Davis logotype in their materials; other institutional or organization logos can be included as appropriate, in addition to the USAID and Horticulture CRSP logos that are required.
