Deadline: 05-Jul-21
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), Family Violence Prevention and Services (FVPSA) Program seeks to award one grant authorized under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to support a National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV).
The NRCDV shall offer a comprehensive array of technical assistance and training resources to federal, state, and local governmental agencies; domestic violence service providers; community-based organizations; and other professionals and interested parties related to domestic violence service programs and research, including programs and research related to victims and their children who are exposed to violence.
The NRCDV shall maintain a central online clearinghouse and resource library in order to collect, prepare, analyze, and disseminate information and statistics related to:
- the incidence, intervention, and prevention of domestic violence and dating violence; and
- the provision of shelter, supportive services, and prevention services to adult and youth victims of domestic violence, including services to prevent repeated incidents of violence.
The NRCDV is part of a network of National, Special Issue, Culturally Specific, and Capacity Building Resource Centers providing leadership, training, technical assistance, resources, and support to programs and systems serving victims of domestic violence and their children.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $1,800,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 1
- Award Ceiling: $1,800,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $1,000,000 Per Budget Period
- Average Projected Award Amount: $1,500,000 Per Budget Period
- Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/30/2021
- Length of Project Period: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to receive a grant of FVPSA, an applicant shall be a nonprofit private organization that focuses primarily on issues of domestic violence and that submits documentation demonstrating that it has the following:
- Experience working on issues of domestic violence, and/or experience providing national technical assistance and resource coordination directly related to the prevention and intervention of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence.
- An advisory board with representatives who are from domestic violence service programs and are geographically and culturally diverse.
- Strong national support of domestic violence service programs for the entity’s designation as a national resource center. Applicants should include letters of support from domestic violence programs with their applications.
- The capacity to serve and work in partnership with a diverse network of community-based domestic violence programs, state domestic violence coalitions, government agencies, tribes, tribal programs, policymakers, culturally specific organizations, LGBTQ organizations, and other entities involved in assisting community programs and victims of domestic violence, and their children; and
- A record of demonstrated achievements and outcomes in delivering national training and technical assistance, enhancing service delivery, and maintaining an online clearinghouse library accessed by service providers.
- Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of this part, the Department will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization’s religious character, affiliation, or exercise.
- Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=328910
