Deadline: 20-Jun-23
The Office on Violence Against Women is seeking applications for the State and Territory Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program to supports the critical work of state and territory domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and is a set-aside program under the OVW STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program statute.
These organizations play an important role in advancing the goal of ending domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Purpose Areas
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Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- Coordinating state and territory victim services activities.
- Collaborating and coordinating with federal, state, territory, and local entities engaged in violence against women activities.
- Grant funds must be used for one or more of the following statutory purposes:
- Working with local sexual assault programs and other providers of direct services to encourage appropriate responses to sexual assault within the state or territory.
- Working with judicial or law enforcement agencies to encourage appropriate responses to sexual assault cases.
- Working with courts, child protective services agencies, and children’s advocates to develop appropriate responses to child custody and visitation issues when sexual assault has been determined to be a factor.
- Designing and conducting public education campaigns.
- Planning and monitoring the distribution of grants and grant funds to their state or territory.
- Collaborating with and informing federal, state, or local public officials and agencies to develop and implement policies to reduce or eliminate sexual assault.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $340,618
- Award Floor: $106,424
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 12
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $19,815,000
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 88
Eligible Activities
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Examples of activities that may be supported include:
- Providing training and technical assistance (TTA) to member organizations.
- Expanding the technological capacity of coalitions and/or member organizations.
- Developing or enhancing appropriate standards of services for member programs, including culturally appropriate services for underserved populations.
- Conducting statewide, regional and/or community-based meetings or workshops for victim advocates, survivors, legal service providers, and criminal justice representatives.
- Bringing local programs together to identify gaps in services and to coordinate activities.
- Increasing the representation of underserved populations in the coordination of victim services, including providing financial assistance to organizations that serve underserved communities to facilitate participation in planning meetings, task forces, committees, etc.
- Engaging in activities that promote coalition-building at the local and/or state level.
- Coordinating at the federal, state, and territory level with judicial or local law enforcement agencies to develop or enhance strategies to address identified problems.
- Eligible sexual assault coalitions or dual domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions will receive additional funding from SASP’s state and territory sexual assault coalitions set-aside to support the maintenance and expansion of state and territory sexual assault coalitions.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Entity
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Domestic violence coalitions: current list of eligible domestic violence coalitions can be found at: State and Territory Coalitions
- Coalitions Program: Domestic violence coalitions are eligible for funding through this program and should provide programming, activities, and budget details addressing the purpose areas of this program.
- SASP Set-Aside: Domestic violence coalitions are not eligible for funding appropriated through the SASP setaside.
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Sexual assault coalitions: current list of eligible sexual assault coalitions can be found at: State and Territory Coalitions
- Coalitions Program: Sexual assault coalitions are eligible for funding through this program and should provide programming, activities, and budget details addressing the purpose areas of this program.
- SASP Set-Aside: Sexual assault coalitions are eligible for funding through the SASP set-aside and should provide programming, activities, and budget details addressing the purpose areas of the SASP setaside.
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Dual coalitions: coalitions that appear on both the list of eligible sexual assault coalitions and the list of eligible domestic violence coalitions are eligible as dual coalitions.
- Coalitions Program: Dual coalitions are eligible for funding through this program and should provide programming, activities, and budget details addressing the purpose areas of this program, with funding evenly divided between domestic violence and sexual assault activities.
- SASP Set-Aside: Dual coalitions are eligible for funding through the SASP set-aside and should provide programming, activities, and budget details addressing the purpose areas of the SASP set-aside.
Ineligible
- Applications submitted by ineligible entities will not be considered for funding. Should an organization that was eligible at the time of application become ineligible or disqualified, that organization will not be considered for funding. For example, an applicant may no longer be eligible because HHS revised its list of designated coalitions, or an applicant may be disqualified if the applicant is debarred from receiving federal funding or dissolves its corporate status.
- Note: Any nonprofit organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax of the Internal Revenue Code is not eligible for a grant from this program.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.