Deadline: 06-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding efforts to reduce violent crime in rural areas.
Goal: The goals of this initiative are to develop, implement, and assess strategies that reduce rural violence through identification of programs and approaches that are innovative, targeted, and adaptable.
Objectives
Successful applicants will be expected to meet the following objectives:
- Deploy agency resources such as personnel, services, or analytical tools that they identified in their proposals. Appropriate documentation should be provided in the proposals about the utility of these resources in addressing rural crime.
- Document how personnel and resources will be used in furtherance of their crime reduction strategies. They must describe how they will deploy funded resources (e.g., services, personnel, software, or equipment) and how that will be reported to BJA on a semi-annual basis.
- Track their outcomes to determine if the violent crime reduction strategy (or strategies) have had an impact once implemented. This tracking objective will be accomplished with the assistance of the TTA provider selected to work with the site-based entities.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $150,000.00
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $5,500,000.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 45
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Other
- This solicitation is limited to agencies serving rural communities. The following entities are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity:
- Sheriff’s offices serving rural population areas
- Local or county law enforcement agencies serving rural populations
- Tribal law enforcement agencies operating in rural areas or reservations
- County prosecutors’ offices or functional equivalents serving rural populations
- To qualify as rural for the purposes of this solicitation, an applicant must provide services in a rural area, although the jurisdiction’s service area need not be exclusively rural. This definition holds for all entity types. For any municipality (e.g., town, village, or borough), the area must be considered rural and the population served must not exceed 15,000, based on the latest U.S. Census enumeration.
- To advance Executive Order Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333625