Deadline: 18-May-21
The Office on Violence Against Women invites applications from eligible applicants to provide national leadership on issues of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
The program directs grant dollars to states and territories to assist them in supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations or tribal programs that provide direct intervention and related assistance to victims of sexual assault, without regard to age.
Purpose Areas under this program must be used to provide intervention and related assistance to:
- Adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault.
- Family and household members of such victims.
- Those collaterally affected by the victimization, except for the perpetrator of such victimization.
In FY 2021, funds under the SAS Formula Program must be used for the following purpose:
- To support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of rape crisis centers and other nongovernmental or tribal programs and projects to assist individuals who have been victimized by sexual assault, with regard to the age of the individual.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation is $24,375,000.00
- Award Ceiling: $1,007,410
- Award Floor: $62,563
- The award period is 24 months. Generally, the award period will start on August 1, 2021.
- OVW will make a maximum of 56 awards.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible entities for this program are limited to any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Specifically, only the designated state office may apply. Applications that are submitted by ineligible entities will not be considered for funding. An applicant that is found to have an unresolved audit finding (not closed or resolved within 12 months of the final audit report from the Inspector General of the Department of Justice) is not eligible for funding during the following two fiscal years.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332979