Our Impact

REI has helped NASA make grants 32 percent more efficient - as well as faster and with lower risk - by automating the process for Small Business Innovation and Research grants administered by the Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, the heart of Silicon Valley.

REI developed BusinessUSA - a single, easy-to-use portal for individuals and small businesses to find all the information and help they need to start up, hire, grow, and begin exporting - so that a tech entrepreneur in Pittsburgh who needs a grant can find one without needing to know which agency can help.

REI helps EIA gather and present oil and gas well location, production, and lease data from every US state, which supports production tracking, forecasting, analytics, and lease planning across multiple states, including a gusher near Kit Carson, Colorado.

REI helps develop and operate systems that enable NOAA and NMFS to track fishery capacity and usage, managing finite resources in ways that work for consumers, fishermen, and our fishery resources, such as those on the Pacific coast of Oregon.

In less than three months, REI implemented an automated grants management process for LCTCS to replace their manual one. As a result, manual data entry and errors have been substantially reduced and time required to review each application has been cut by more than 50%.

REI developed BusinessUSA - a single, easy-to-use portal for individuals and small businesses to find all the information and help they need to start up, hire, grow, and begin exporting. Using BusinessUSA, the Montana Indian Equity Fund provides assistance to Montana's federally recognized tribes to help members of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe become business owners.

REI supported SBA's Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program through Nevada's Industry Excellence organization, helping North Sails LLC to expand its manufacturing, increase productivity by 31%, add 25 employees, and grow sales by $5 million.

Through its expertise in data analytics and management, REI supports the Office of Financial Research (OFR) to continue developing standard financial policies such as the globally-standardized Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), a reference code to uniquely identify a legally-distinct entity engaging in financial transaction. LEI was adopted by industry organizations such as Bloomberg and SWIFT, and early industry estimates range from $300 million to $10 billion in industry savings.

REI developed USAID’s Acquisition & Assistance (A&A) planning system that enables USAID employees and respective offices to plan their workloads more efficiently throughout the fiscal year. These solicitations range from $25,000 to above $100 million, including solicitations related to high-profile Presidential initiatives and activities of specific interest. One of the oldest USAID projects (funded since 1960) is Istanbul’s Robert College educating high school students.

The World Bank Group is a United Nations financial institution that provides loans for capital programs in developing countries. To support their efforts, REI built a central database solution of their contacts to manage engagements in 189 member countries from offices in more than 130 locations. This Salesforce solution helps manage million dollar projects like Ethiopia Health MDGs P4R Additional Financing to improve the delivery and use of a comprehensive package of maternal and child health (MCH) services, a recent $230 million engagement.

REI built a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution (using a Salesforce "quick start" tool) to help the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) better manage its development financing across Latin America and the Caribbean. The solution helps IDB manage loans and projects such as a recent initiative in Brazil, where a US $280 million loan from IDB enabled a project to provide 3,354 families in of the City of Manaus with access to potable water, sanitation, and electricity.

Export Import Bank (EXIM) is an independent federal agency that facilitates the export of U.S. goods and services through private export financing, such as credit insurance for short-term and medium-term sales, at no cost to American taxpayers. REI built a Salesforce CRM solution to help strengthen EXIM’s customer relationships with small businesses, like Los Kitos Produce, a California-based network of growers, packers, and shippers of produce who have been able to export their fresh quality fruits and vegetables by using multi-buyer Small Business Export Credit Insurance from EXIM.

REI built a cloud-based solution to help MPAA manage movie royalty/copyright revenue collections from more than 20 countries for US film producers, including Sony, MGM, Fox, Universal, Warner, and CBS.

An OPIC loan made through systems developed by REI enabled SunEdison Semiconductor to add jobs in Missouri to build solar energy generation components for Azure Power Gujarat, which will develop and operate a 5MW photovoltaic plant in India.

The First National Bank of Brundidge was examined by the OCC in January 2017 and rated "satisfactory" in an OCC Community Reinvestment Act Performance Evaluation. REI provides the case management and tracking systems that help OCC manage its examinations to minimize burden on banks and minimize risk to bank customers.

REI is deploying a grants management system for the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to support a broad range of grant topic areas and programs. One such is the Clean Water Fund, in which grants have been used across the state since 2010 for source water protection-related activities, like sealing unused wells and installing alternate emergency power systems.

REI's work with HRSA's grant systems and processes help the Indiana Health Centers serve Ryan White's hometown of Kokomo, including treatment for patients with HIV/AIDS. More than 83% of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program's clients are virally suppressed, up from 70% in 2010, and exceeding the national average of 55%.

REI helps HRSA track use of scholarship funding in areas where there is a shortage of health professionals, including the Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program.

The C. L. Brumback Primary Care Clinic received a HRSA grant to build a new facility in southwest Boca Raton, Florida. REI enables HRSA grant-making to provide health care to more than 24 million people.

REI helps HRSA make grants to implement the Global Nurse Capacity Building Program, which works to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and abilities of nurses that deliver care to people affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. The result is more skilled nurses and midwives in sub-Saharan Africa achieved through policy development, curricula improvements, faculty education, professional development, and retention programs.

REI helps make government grants management more efficient by supporting the Grants Center of Excellence as shared services across 1,500 different grant-making programs, including those managed at the Administration for Children and Families' Regional Office in Atlanta.

REI developed the FDA Data Dashboard to make it easy for anyone to find the results of FDA inspections, compliance, and enforcement actions.

REI's GovGrants tool allows DC DOH to track applications, provide status reporting, and manage the routing and approval within the DOH administrations and offices. GovGrants also gives DC DOH the ability to aggregate reporting for Congressional reporting requirements.

REI's work with HRSA's grant systems and processes enabled disbursement of more than $2.2 million in funding throughout the state of Kentucky to enhance rural health care centers, such as Marcum and Wallace Memorial Hospital in Irvine, KY.

REI's work with HRSA's grant systems and processes enabled the University of South Carolina College of Nursing to receive two federal HRSA grants. Totaling $371,000, the grants were aimed at increasing the workforce for advanced practice nurses and doctoral-prepared nursing faculty. New funding for each grant provides scholarships for 35 advanced practice nursing students from rural counties and underserved regions in South Carolina.

REI helps New York increase the trust its citizens have in the City's government and leverages the eyes of seven million residents to help look for fraud and misuse by sharing City spending - dollar by dollar, check by check - via CheckbookNYC.com.

REI has helped GSA and OMB identify the 100 best and 100 lowest performing data centers in government to work toward matching up the former (potential shared service providers) with the latter (potential customers). Government could save hundreds of millions of dollars as a result. The NASA data center at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi is on target to be one of the first approved shared service providers.

REI designed, developed, and has operated Data.gov for eight years, providing Americans with easy, searchable access to data collected by all parts of the federal government. For example, it's easy to click and download federal student loan data and filter it for the University of Nebraska - just once, or every month - if desired.

REI has helped HUD automate the deployment of new technology using a DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment model. This means that HUD can deploy innovations in record time - even to field offices in places such as Anchorage, Alaska.

REI has helped the NLRB develop its NexGen case management system to manage and resolve labor disputes, such as a reinstatement of unfairly terminated employees and back pay in the case of Triumph Aerostructures in Grand Prairie, Texas.

San Diego found that REI's GovGrants solution can be implemented quickly and economically, even by individual cities, which are primarily grant recipients. With GovGrants in place, the City has experienced a 30% increase in applications received in 2017.

Ohio is deploying an enterprise grants management (GEM) system using GovGrants & PeopleSoft technologies. REI's GovGrants solution, based on the Salesforce cloud, is being implemented across every department of Ohio's government. Doing so reduces Ohio's costs to both acquire, operate, and maintain the systems it uses to receive and make grants.

After comparing several alternatives, Utah selected REI's GovGrants grants management solution because it's fast to deploy, less costly over a lifetime, reliable, and provides broad functionality - especially compared to interfaces with federal agencies from which Utah receives much of its grant revenue. Using GovGrants, grant-making and grant-receiving agencies have seen grant performance in a matter of months rather than years.

REI is helping Rhode Island implement a consistent grant management solution across all state departments to receive federal grants and administer grants to municipalities and other organizations within the State. REI's GovGrants solution will make state-wide reporting, management, and risk reduction significantly easier and will allow more of every grant dollar to achieve its intended purpose.

In 2016, Hurricane Matthew struck the Carolinas' coast, impacting North Carolina most heavily. FEMA relied on REI's grant systems and expertise to provide 28,941 people with individual assistance; FEMA continues to help impacted people and jurisdictions prepare for and mitigate against damage from future disasters.

Waldoboro Maine's Police Chief says that Officer Jon Lash's life was saved during a domestic disturbance call gone awry when "his bullet-proof vest absorbed the brunt of the impact saving his life." REI helps DOJ's Office of Justice Programs save more than 30 law enforcement officer lives each year through the bullet proof vest partnership grant program.

REI helps DHS make Small Business Innovation & Research (SBIR) grants that promote innovations to protect our homeland. One such grant was made to BlueRISC, Inc. of Amherst, Massachusetts to develop Malware Prediction for Preemptive Cyber Defense.

REI supports DOJ in providing grants management reimbursement for the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative. The SWBPI program was created to reimburse eligible state and local jurisdictions in Arizona for prosecution and pretrial detention costs for cases that the Federal Government declined and referred to these jurisdictions.

REI helps DOJ's Office of Justice Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program award a grant to 42 South Dakota jurisdictions, which provided the Rapid City police department with body armor.