The Office on Violence Against Women invites applications under two separate initiatives, the Research and Evaluation Initiative and the Research and Evaluation Capacity-building Project. Research and Evaluation Initiative.
Donor Name: Office on Violence Against Women
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/04/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
The purpose of the Research and Evaluation (R&E) Initiative is to study approaches to preventing and addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. By generating more knowledge about strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable, communities that benefit from VAWA funding will be better equipped to align their work with practices that are known to be effective as well as build their own capacity to evaluate new and promising ways of doing their work. The initiative is designed to support researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs. Because OVW has limited funds to support research and evaluation, this initiative prioritizes topics for which a stronger evidence base would help OVW recipients use federal funds most effectively.
Special Initiative: Research and Evaluation Capacity-building Project
OVW anticipates funding a special initiative: the Research and Evaluation Capacity-building Project (Capacity-building Project). This project will enhance the gender-based violence field’s ability to identify effective practices, recognize service gaps, and develop and use evidence to improve prevention efforts and responses to gender-based violence. The goal is to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among practitioners and emerging scholars and develop their skills in evidence informed decision-making. Practitioners will gain insights into approaches and tools to apply in their roles, while emerging scholars will gain first-hand field experience they can use for doing research in real-world contexts. One of the objectives of the Capacity-building Project is to facilitate lasting connections among people whose work addresses gender-based violence, which will include the implementation of strategies for building sustainable networks.
Funding Information
Estimated Total Program Funding: $9,000,000.
- R&E Initiative: up to $500,000 (except for topic area # 10, which may be for up to $5,000,000).
- Capacity-building Project: up to $600,000.
Grant Period
- R&E Initiative: up to 36 months (except for topic area #10, which may be between 36 and 48 months)
- Capacity-building Project: 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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
- Special district governments
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- State governments, including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
