1. NIFA - Planning Accountability & Reporting Staff
REEport
Basics
Adam Preuter
NIFA - Planning Accountability & Reporting Staff

2. Topics 1. What is REEport? 2. Life of a Project 3. How NIFA Uses Data
4. Site Administration
5. FAQ
6. Resources
7. Questions

3. What is REEport?

4. What is NIFA?
Our Mission: Invest in and advance agricultural research, education, and extension to solve societal challenges.

5. Initial Project Documentation Accomplishment Reporting
Reporting system IN
Initial Project Documentation
Accomplishment Reporting
Financial Reporting
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6. Congressional Inquiries
Reporting system
OUT
Public facing
Congressional Inquiries
White House Inquiries
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7. Who Can Access REEport?

8. NIFA Partners and Grantees
Site Administrators
Other Admin Staff
Project Directors

9. How Do I Access REEport?

13. Key Terminology
Capacity – A non-competitive type of funding distributed each fiscal year by NIFA to partner organizations (typically Land Grant Universities)
In REEport they are labeled as Formula funds
Manually created by Partner institution
Competitive – A type of funding awarded each fiscal year by NIFA to any eligible organization (per the RFA) that competed for and was awarded a grant
- In REEport they are labeled as Non-Formula
Automatically created by REEport upon award recommendation
Hint: If it’s not funded by one of the capacity funding lines, then it’s treated in REEport as “competitive”

14. The Life of a Project

33. No Backdating
5 Year Max

36. Capacity Click project to open and submit to NIFA
Competitive (Non-Formula) projects automatically populate Draft folder once Recommended for award. You cannot create them
Capacity
Form populates with data from Grants.gov application, which cannot be edited
Once populated into Draft folder, completed and submitted just like Capacity
Click project to open and submit to NIFA
Can only be submitted by Site Admin

37. Don’t forget to enter relevant comments

42. Progress Reporting
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43. Progress Reporting -Reporting shells created automatically
-Dates cannot be changed and are sequential
-Next shell created after previous is submitted
-Cannot be submitted more than 90 days
prior to Reporting Period End Date

48. Final Reports -Form and function same as Progress Reports
-Submitted at project end
-Or to terminate early
-Therefore can be submitted at any time

49. Project Change -A copy of all active Project Initiation forms
-Make any edits and submit to NIFA
-Once approved becomes the new version
-Project Change then creates a copy of the
new version, available for future changes

50. Project Change examples for Capacity
-Used to request extensions – change End Date
-Change Project Directors
-Significant change in project direction
-Correct any errors on any field

51. Project Change Competitive
-Competitive Projects – no approval required
-Change is automatic upon submission
-NIFA NPL receives updated copy
-Certain fields cannot be edited – these come from original grant application – contact NIFA Program staff on Award Face Sheet to edit

52. Copy of all Project Initiation forms
Make edits
Review stage
Pending NIFA approval - Capacity

53. Changing Reports? Progress and Final
-Within 90 days of submission contact NIFA
-We can send report back to you for editing
-After 90 days report cannot be edited
-Final Reports – Closes the project. If submitted in error, project cannot be reopened if after 90 days

54. Financial Report -Project level report – Expenditures and FTEs
-Capacity and Competitive projects
-Not the same as SF-425 report
-Due every February 1st
-REEport Financial Report Manual

56. Due Dates
Report Type
Capacity
Competitive
Project Initiation
Any Time
As soon as PD is notified of award recommendation
Progress Report
March 1 each year
Within 90 days after the anniversary of the start date*
Final Report
March 1 after the final year of the project
Within 90 days after the project end date
Financial Report
February 1 each year
Financial Report – reporting on the Federal fiscal year
*If the project is a continuation award, the progress report is due within 90 days BEFORE the anniversary of the start date; NIFA program leaders send s requesting the report usually 60 days beforehand

57. How is All This Data Used?

58. REEport Data Transparent to Public
Data Gateway
LMD
CRIS

59. Data Gateway

60. Strong Impacts/Success Stories
NIFA Data Use
Funding of Topic Areas
Funding by Program
Funding by State
Strong Impacts/Success Stories
Reports to Congress

61. Our Mission: Invest in and advance agricultural research, education, and extension to solve societal challenges.

62. Fewer and fewer Americans involved in any aspect of agriculture
What’s all the fuss?
This means that fewer and fewer legislators have constituents in agriculture and food industries
This means that public funding, both state and federal is harder and harder to come by
Fewer and fewer Americans involved in any aspect of agriculture

63. Site Administration

64. User Roles and Capabilities Link

65. You are able to add, but not remove any listed departments

66. Disregard this section! Users are administered in Portal

68. You are unable to edit this information

71. Message users will see in Project Initiation and Progress/Final Report sections

72. Please don’t change the Prefix

73. Program of Research Instructions
For Animal Health and McIntire-Stennis funding only
Program of Research Instructions

79. FAQ

80. Where is Our Competitive
Project Initiation?

81. Shared DUNS CREEMS REEport Auburn University SAES Extension Vet
Makes Award Recommendation
Create Project Initiation and
assign using DUNS
Auburn University
SAES
Extension
Vet
Forestry
Shared DUNS
REEport can’t make assignment

82. REEport sends two simultaneous emails:
Kellogg.edu
1. Project Initiation is ready – login and complete
2. Tell us where to assign this award. “Claim it”
You must reply to the second
In order for NIFA to make the project available
It is a manual process – 3 to 4 business days

83. Resources

84. All found at NIFA’s website: Tools/REEport
Key Resources
REEport Guide for Project Directors
REEport Financial Report Manual
REEport Operational Reports User Guide
Program of Research Instructions
REEport Capacity Review Tracking
Explanation of User Roles
All found at NIFA’s website: Tools/REEport

85. Support Tier 1 Help Desk Adam Preuter James Hultzman Primary Support
Adam Preuter
James Hultzman

86. Questions?