The Office of Grants and Research (OGR) is seeking grant applications to support traditional enforcement activities and develop new strategies to reduce roadway crashes, injuries, fatalities, and associated economic losses in Massachusetts.
Donor Name: Office of Grants and Research (OGR)
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
This grant program makes federal funds available to provide police departments substantial flexibility in addressing local traffic safety issues, allowing funding beyond enforcement to include equipment options and developing novel traffic-safety programs.
Funding Information
OGR is pleased to make between $5 – $5.5 million in grant funds through this AGF process.
2025 Funding Levels
- Population Greater than 40,000
- Tier 1: Max Award – $60,000.00
- Population 20,000 – 39,999
- Tier 2: Max Award – $40,000.00
- Population 12,000 -19,999
- Tier 3: Max Award – $30,000.00
- Less than 12,000
- Tier 4: Max Award – $20,000.00.
Grant Period
The grant award period will be approximately twelve months. The award period will start on or about October 1, 2024, and end on September 15, 2025.
Program Elements
Applicants may propose projects that fall within one or more of the Program Elements. Each Element is optional and independent from each other. A department may apply for any combination of the following activities that best address their specific needs. The full budget, inclusive of all proposed elements, must be within the department’s appropriate funding tier.
Note: For the elements being requested, a department must provide at least three (3) measurable target objectives that should be clearly related to a particular element. It’s important that these objectives are measurable (meaning that an indicator of progress can be quantifiable) and reasonable (able to be attainable via the proposed programming). Please see the following examples that may assist when developing your objectives:
- Traffic Enforcement:
- Deploy 8 overtime patrols to enforce speeding violations at the intersection of A and B Streets during June 2025 to reduce the number of speeding vehicles by 10%. A department should provide the monthly average of speeding vehicles identified in this intersection for June 2024 (e.g., 30 vehicles were cited for speeding in ’24) and track progress made during their 2025 enforcement campaign with the goal of reducing this number to 27.
- Pedestrian & Bicyclist Enforcement:
- Conduct 18 crosswalk decoy patrols over the course of the 6 enforcement campaigns at the intersection of C and D Streets to reduce the number of pedestrian crashes by 50% from 2024. A department should provide the number of pedestrian crashes at this intersection for 2024 (e.g., 4 pedestrian crashes in ’24) and track progress made during their 2025 enforcement campaign with the goal of reducing this number to 2.
- Non-Enforcement Traffic Safety Activities:
- Ten Officers to complete ARIDE training.
- Officers targeted pedestrian outreach activities (e.g., distributed 1,000 pedestrian safety flyers) on Main St. to address this high problem area as five crashes involving pedestrians occurred at this location in the past three years.
- Distribute 1,000 pieces of educational materials to pedestrians on Main St. since five crashes involving pedestrians occurred at this location in the past three years.
- Distribute 25 bicycle helmets during a Bike Rodeo event
- Officers provided 4 presentations at elementary schools on the topic of pedestrian safety.
Eligibility Criteria
Only Massachusetts municipal police departments are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit OGR.
