US: Funding Opportunity to Prevent and Reduce Violent Crime in Communities

Deadline: 16-Jun-22

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs, including efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations (CBOs), law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.

Goal: The overall goal of ommunity Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) is to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs.

Categories

• CVIPI Planning and Implementation for Community Based/Tribal Organizations
• CVIPI Planning and Implementation for City/County/Tribal Governments
• CVIPI Enhancement and Expansion for Community Based/Tribal Organizations
• CVIPI Enhancement and Expansion for City/County/Tribal Governments
• Capacity building for community based organizations via intermediary organizations
• CVI Training and Technical Assistance for Site-based awards
• CVIPI resource and field support center

Objectives

• Applicants to Categories 1–4 must address the following objectives/activities in their proposal narrative’s project design and implementation:
  • For Categories 1 and 2, build or repurpose a working group, and for Categories 3 and 4, strengthen an existing working group in the CVIPI program. The working group membership and expertise should be tailored to best address the community’s problems and needs.
  • Through a collaborative, multimethod, data-collection, and analysis approach, conduct a needs assessment to develop a detailed understanding of the nature, patterns, and root causes of community violence within the community of focus.
  • Focus on addressing community violence through a data-driven approach by identifying performance goals and measures of success for each of the strategies and the overall program.
  • Hold regular (at least monthly) collaboration meetings, in person or virtually, with the key working group partners to examine the implementation of each strategy by examining the performance measures and movement toward goals, as well as to discuss overcoming barriers to success and planning future activities.
  • Place priority on building and maintaining a close relationship between the program and the working group member organizations and the community of focus, including community members and community-based organizations.
  • The working group should begin to consider how to sustain the program past the current award.
• The objectives for the TTA Categories (5–7) are:
  • Category 5: Enhance the community partners’ capacity to successfully seek and manage funding and work with CBOs to implement CVI strategies through TTA and capacity-building activities, including the administration of subawards.
  • Category 6: Enhance the capacity of all Category 1–4 grantees to effectively plan, collaborate on, and implement CVI strategies by providing resources, subject matter expertise, and TTA for the purpose of improving CVI strategies and implementation.
  • Category 7: Provide customized TTA support and serve as a clearinghouse of CVI information by establishing a CVIPI Resource and Field Support Center.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $46,500,000
• Award Ceiling: $2,000,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• For-profit organizations including small businesses
• Native American and Alaska Native tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• County governments
• Native American and Alaska Native tribal governments (Federally recognized), Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (“ANCSA”) Regional Corporations
• Special District governments
• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
• Independent School Districts
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• For-profit organizations including small businesses

For more information, visit Grants.gov.

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339600