National PEARS now offers the ability to export your State plan budget or annual report expenditures for analysis. Implementing agencies can export their own financial reports while State and Regional Coordinators can export all data within their area. For more information please see our support article on how to export this information: https://support.national.pears.io/budget-expenditure-export/
There have been a few updates to National PEARS prior to the Launch of FY26 Plans. The following article details those changes. “Annual Plan” has now been renamed to “State plan” on the home page and throughout the system to match documentation from FNS. Goals and objectives now have a set order and will not … Read more
Within the State Plan in National PEARS, agencies can set up to seven SMART goals, each with multiple objectives. To make these objectives easier to track in the system, we’ve added objective numbering to help clearly identify each one. Each objective is now labeled using the format Goal#.Objective#—as shown below, Objective 1.1 corresponds to the … Read more
The PSE Changes list and Project Sites list in National PEARS frequently display a significant amount of data that can be difficult to work with in a single view. N-PEARS now includes pagination on these sections to show 50 records at a time. To see each additional page, click on the next page number. This … Read more
FNS received feedback that agencies needed a more efficient way to update the PSE Changes Maintained records in their FY 2024 reports. At its initial release, the importer template did not support updating the PSE Changes Maintained records, which copied from the agency’s FY 2023 report. FNS and Canopy are working on a solution to … Read more
The FY 2024 Report modules will open in N-PEARS for all agencies on October 28, 2024. State agencies must submit Reports through N-PEARS to their Regional Coordinator(s) by January 31, 2025. There will be several differences from the FY 2023 Report. Applicable information from the Planned Projects and Activities, Planned Evaluations, and Coordination and Collaboration … Read more
A recent update for the State plan affects the display of the Total Agency Budget within the Planned Staffing and Budget Module. The total budget layout has been reworked to more clearly separate the line-item breakdown of your total budget and the source of funding by year. Similarly, State agencies can now see their total … Read more
Support for Multiple Social Marketing Campaigns The State plan now supports multiple social marketing campaigns to be listed for a single project. Simply select the relevant Social Marketing Campaigns in the Approaches section of that project, and then add multiple campaigns using the “Add Campaign” button on the Social Marketing Campaign section of the project. … Read more
Since the launch of the 2025 State plan there have been a few updates worth mentioning. Copy Features – Planned Projects and Activities, Coordination and Collaboration The State plan now has copying features for Planned Projects and Coordination and Collaboration. Projects can be copied over from a prior year’s plan, as well as any Partnership/Coalitions, … Read more
Happy New Year! We hope 2024 is off to a great start. We are excited to announce a few updates to the annual report in N-PEARS that are now live. Success Story Requirement waived When the annual report first launched in N-PEARS, all implementing agencies were required to add at least two success stories. This … Read more