Deadline: 12-Mar-25
The Project Safe Neighborhoods: Formula Grants Program is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.
The PSN program aims to create safer communities by developing data-driven and community-based strategies to reduce violent crime, particularly gun violence.
The purpose of the PSN program is to create safer communities through collaborative partnerships between federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (where applicable) law enforcement agencies and community-based organizations representatives (hereafter PSN Team) in each federal judicial district.
Design Features
- PSN Team members will serve as allies and active partners in reducing crime and improving the quality of life in affected neighborhoods. Applicants will use awarded funds to support one or more of the following four PSN design features:
- Community Engagement
- Prevention and Intervention
- Focused and Strategic Enforcement
- Accountability
Program Goals and Objectives
- PSN aims to identify and address the most pressing violent crime problems in a community through developing comprehensive solutions, building partnerships, and employing a data driven problem-solving approach.
- Goals
- Create and implement sustainable collaborations and comprehensive violent crime reduction strategies with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (where applicable) law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to address the most pressing violent crime problems in a community.
- Foster community trust in, and increase legitimacy of, federal, state, and local law enforcement entities through the development of violent crime reduction strategies, public education approaches, and transparent accountability mechanisms.
- Use intelligence and data to identify violent crime drivers and individuals at risk of violence victimization or perpetration to intervene, prevent, and improve outcomes.
- Objectives
- Implement one or more effective strategies to prevent, respond to, and reduce violent crime in the PSN district.
- Support the implementation of specific activities and resource requirements related to the district’s PSN strategy in collaboration with all relevant partners and stakeholders.
- Develop and implement a data-driven strategy to inform how PSN grant funds are used to support the district’s violent crime reduction strategy.
Funding Information
Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
Duration
- Anticipated period of performance duration: 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Other – Certified PSN Team fiscal agents for the federal judicial districts
- All fiscal agents must be certified by the relevant district’s United States Attorney (USA).
- Eligible USA-certified fiscal agents include states, units of local government, educational institutions, faith-based and other community organizations, private nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofits), and federally recognized American Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.