Residential Energy Assistance Challenge (REACH)
Background
The 1994 reauthorization of LIHEAP added a new section to the LIHEAP statute. Section 2607(b), effective in FY 1996, authorizes a new, optional initiative, the Residential Energy Assistance Challenge (REACH) grant, funding for which would be taken out of the LIHEAP leveraging incentive program funds (up to 25 percent of the amount authorized for the leveraging program).
Tribes that qualify can use the REACH funds to: "minimize the health and safety risks that result from high energy burdens on low income Americans, prevent homelessness as a result of inability to pay energy bills, increase the efficiency of energy usage by low income families, and target energy assistance to individuals who are most in need."
Additional funds may be made available to REACH programs that: "have energy efficiency education services plans that meet quality standards established by the Secretary in consultation with the Secretary of Energy; and have the potential for being replicable model designs for other programs." Grantees must use these additional funds for the implementation and evaluation of the energy efficiency education services.
- History of Tribal REACH Funding
- REACH Evaluations and Program Descriptions
- FY 2012 Tribal and Territory REACH Grants
- FY 2010 Tribal and Territory REACH Grants, second distribution
- FY 2010 Tribal and Territory REACH Grants, first distribution
- FY 2007 Tribal and Territory REACH Grants
- FY 2006 Tribal and Territory REACH Grants
- FY 2005 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 2004 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 2003 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 2002 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 2001 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 2000 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 1999 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 1998 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 1997 Tribal REACH Grants
- FY 1996 Tribal REACH Grants