HOW TO ACCESS YOUR AWARD IN REACH
REACH is the NEA’s online grants management system for Offerees and Award Recipients.
- Offeree: An applicant whose project has received an offer of funding from the NEA. After receiving an offer notification from the NEA, the Offeree has access to REACH to submit required documents. Please note: REACH access is turned off after document submission, when the offer is sent to the Office of Grants Management (OGM) for award processing.
- Award Recipient: The recipient of an NEA award (grant or cooperative agreement). An Offeree becomes an Award Recipient once the offer process is complete, and the NEA has issued a Notice of Action for the award.
REACH contains all your official award files including a copy of your application, the approved project budget, Terms and Conditions specific to your award, and the final report schedule. Through REACH, you will submit offer documents, request award funds or an amendment to your award, and submit required reports. REACH also has a messaging component where you can communicate directly with the NEA about your award.
Only participants on an offer or an award have access to REACH. The NEA sends official notifications, e.g., offers and award documents, via REACH. If you are new to an organization and require REACH access, an existing participant will need to submit a request through the Change Requests tab to add you to an award. (See the How to Manage Your NEA Award Handbook for instructions.) Keep your participants up to date to stay informed about your offer and/or award.
- Participant: An individual at an Offeree or Award Recipient organization who has access to REACH to manage the NEA offer or award. These individuals are first identified in the application but may be updated on a revised project budget or through a change request submitted in REACH.
REACH is accessed with a Login.gov account. Go to the REACH home page at https://reach.arts.gov/Login, where you will see three options for Login.gov access. Follow the Login.gov REACH Instructions to pick the appropriate option.
Login.gov is a sign-in service used by the public to securely access your information on federal government websites. Once you set up a Login.gov account, you can use the same user name and password to access multiple government websites, including REACH, SAM.gov, and Grants.gov. Login.gov will link with your offers and awards in REACH through your email address, so make sure that the email you set up with Login.gov is the same as was provided to the NEA through your application or later communication.
You must use a unique-to-you email address for Login.gov. For example: jane.doe@email.com. This should not be an email account that is shared by multiple people. If multiple users are associated with the same email account, access to REACH will be automatically blocked until unique email addresses are provided.
Using another person's Login.gov account to access REACH is strictly prohibited; the NEA will block access to REACH for this account when we see it happen.