Deadline: 24-Mar-23
The Office on Violence Against Women is now inviting applications to Engage Men and Boys as Allies in the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls.
Purpose Areas
In FY 2023, funds under this program must be used to develop and/or implement strategies that engage and mobilize men and boys at individual, group, relational, and societal levels to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or sex trafficking through one or more of the following purpose areas:
- Develop and/or implement programming to recruit and train men and boys to serve as role models, positive influencers, change agents, and/or mentors to address and prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or sex trafficking.
- Integrate education on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or sex trafficking into established support and/or enrichment programs (e.g., mentoring, youth services, sports, fraternal, faith-based, fatherhood, re-entry, and educational programs) to assist men and/or boys in developing healthy relationships, challenging social norms that support violence against women and girls, becoming active bystanders, and understanding the intersection of the above crimes with other types of related violence (e.g., gang initiation, gun violence).
- Develop and implement a train-the-trainer program for community organizations or programs, and/or governmental agencies or programs, to incorporate education and/ or training into their existing work with male clients to prevent violence against women and girls.
OVW Priority Areas
In FY 2023, OVW has five programmatic priorities. Applicants are strongly encouraged, but not required, to address a priority area. Applications proposing activities in the following areas will be given special consideration.
- Advance racial equity as an essential component of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sex trafficking. To receive special consideration under this priority area, applicants must partner with and equitably compensate culturally specific, community-based organizations (if the applicant is not a culturally specific, community-based organization), and include project activities that specifically engage, promote, and serve culturally specific communities in the application. To receive special consideration under this priority, applicants must also provide documentation, such as a mission statement, to prove that they meet this requirement and are “by and for” the community they serve or that their culturally specific community-based organization partner meets this requirement. The partnership(s) and mission statement must be documented in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
- Improve outreach, services, civil and criminal justice responses, prevention, and support for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sex trafficking from underserved communities, particularly LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities.
Program Specific Priority:
- Due to the rise in youth experiencing online harm and abuse, including the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images and cyberstalking, special consideration will be given to applicants who address online harm and abuse in their proposed activities.
- Activities that Compromise Victim Safety and Recovery or Undermine Offender Accountability
- OVW does not fund activities that jeopardize victim safety, deter or prevent physical or emotional healing for victims, or allow offenders to escape responsibility for their actions. Applications that propose any such activities may receive a deduction in points during the review process or may be eliminated from consideration. Please note that OVW will support survivor-centered alternative pathways to justice and non-criminal approaches to accountability that fall within the statutory scope of this program.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 8
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $350,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) 36
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation $3,100,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply for this program:
- A nonprofit, nongovernmental entity, including a culturally specific organization (such as an Urban Indian organization or Native Hawaiian organization), or tribal organization.
- An Indian tribal government.
- A unit of local government or an agency of a unit of local government in the United States or U.S. territories.
- Note: Institutions of higher education, regardless of whether they are nonprofit, nongovernmental or governmental entities, are not eligible applicants.
- Faith-Based and Community Organizations
- Faith Based and community organizations, including culturally specific organizations, tribal organizations, and population specific organizations, that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this solicitation.
Ineligible Entities and Disqualifying Factors
Applications submitted by ineligible entities or that do not meet all program eligibility requirements will not be considered for funding. In addition, an application deemed deficient in one or more of the following categories may not be considered for funding:
- Activities that compromise victim safety,
- Out-of-scope activities,
- Unallowable costs,
- Pre-award risk assessment,
- Completeness of application contents, and
- Timeliness. Failure to comply fully with all applicable unique entity identifier and SAM requirements will result in removal from consideration. An applicant with past performance issues, long-standing open audits, or an open criminal investigation also may not be considered for funding.
- Note: Any nonprofit organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in section 511(a) of the Internal Revenue Code is not eligible for a grant from this program.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.