Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention: Mentoring Research Partners Solicitation

Deadline: 22 February 2017

The U.S. Department of State’s Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is currently seeking proposals for its program entitled “Mentoring Research Partners Solicitation”.

This program will support researchers who seek to partner with OJJDP-funded mentoring organizations to conduct program-specific data collection and evaluation and improve mentoring organizations’ ability to collect and analyze program-specific data and measures about the delivery and impact of their mentoring services. The successful researcher applicants would also assist the program in using their data/evaluation findings to make programmatic adjustments.

Funds Available

The estimated funding for this program lies between $450,000 to $150,000

Eligibility Criteria

Private institutions of higher education
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Small businesses
For profit organizations other than Small businesses
State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories), units of local government, federally recognized tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
For-profit organizations (as well as other recipients) must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.
Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign institutions of higher education are not eligible to apply.
OJJDP welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant.
Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (“subgrantees”).
The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering funding and managing the entire project, including monitoring and appropriately managing any subawards (“subgrants”). Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered.
An entity may however, be proposed as a subrecipient (“subgrantee”) in more than one application.