Deadline: 7 January 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for the Justice Reinvestment Initiative: National Training and Technical Assistance.
This program furthers the Department’s mission to reduce crime and recidivism by helping state, local, and tribal governments to analyze criminal justice system data, develop and implement policy options, and effectively allocate scarce resources while improving public safety and enhancing capacity to make data-driven policy decisions.
Through this solicitation, BJA seeks national training and technical assistance providers and subject experts to help state, local, and tribal jurisdictions pursue a state-level Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) approach, or apply key principles of the JRI approach—datadriven problem analysis and evidence-based solutions—to identify and respond to local crime and other public safety challenges.
Categories
BJA is seeking applications under three categories of assistance to support JRI:
- Oversight, coordination, and assessment;
- Jurisdiction-level technical assistance; and
- Training and technical assistance for justice reinvestment site-based projects.
Award Information
- Category 1: BJA expects to make one award under Category 1 of up to $800,000 for a 24-month period of performance, to begin on or about April 1, 2019.
- Category 2: BJA expects to make up to two awards under Category 2, the amount of which will vary depending on the number of states proposed to be served, and may range from approximately $3,500,000 up to $8,300,000, with an estimated total amount awarded of up to $11,785,000. In proposing a budget, applicants must set aside $500,000 as a subaward for each state to be served. The period of performance for Category 2 awards will be 36 months, to begin on or about April 1, 2019.
- Category 3: BJA expects to make one award under Category 3 of up to $1,400,000, for a 36-month period of performance, to begin on or about April 1, 2019.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are limited to national scope private and nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations) and colleges and universities, both public and private (including tribal institutions of higher education). All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
- BJA 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 the funding and managing the entire program.
- BJA may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2018 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given on the website.
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