The State Justice Institute is seeking applications for its Curriculum Adaptation & Training Grant.
Donor Name: State Justice Institute
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Curriculum Adaptation & Training Grants are intended to: enable courts or national court associations to modify and adapt model curricula, course modules, or conference programs to meet states’ or local jurisdictions’ educational needs; train instructors to present portions or all of the curricula; and pilot-test them to determine their appropriateness, quality, and effectiveness; or to conduct judicial branch education and training programs, led by either expert or in-house personnel, designed to prepare judges and court personnel for innovations, reforms, and/or new technologies recently adopted by grantee courts.
Funding Information
Curriculum Adaptation and Training (CAT) Grants may not exceed $40,000 and 12 months in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- SJI is authorized by Congress to award grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to the following entities and types of organizations:
- State and local courts and their agencies
- National nonprofit organizations controlled by, operating in conjunction with, and serving the judicial branches of state governments
- National nonprofit organizations for the education and training of judges and support personnel of the judicial branch of state governments. An applicant is considered a national education and training applicant under section 10705(b)(1)(C) if:
- The principal purpose or activity of the applicant is to provide education and training to state and local judges and court personnel; and
- The applicant demonstrates a record of substantial experience in the field of judicial education and training
- Other eligible grant recipients
- Provided that the objectives of the project can be served better, the Institute is also authorized to make awards to:
- Nonprofit organizations with expertise in judicial administration
- Institutions of higher education
- Individuals, partnerships, firms, corporations (for-profit organizations must waive their fees)
- Private agencies with expertise in judicial administration
- SJI may also make awards to state or local agencies and institutions other than courts for services that cannot be adequately provided through nongovernmental arrangements
- Provided that the objectives of the project can be served better, the Institute is also authorized to make awards to:
- SJI is prohibited from awarding grants to federal, tribal, and international courts.
Selection Criteria
In addition to the criteria detailed below, SJI will consider whether the applicant is a state or local court, a national court support or education organization, a non-court unit of government, or other type of entity eligible to receive grants under SJI’s enabling legislation; the availability of financial assistance from other sources for the project; the diversity of subject matter, geographic diversity; the level and nature of the match that would be provided; reasonableness of the proposed budget; the extent to which the proposed project would also benefit the federal courts or help state or local courts enforce federal constitutional and legislative requirements; and the level of appropriations available to SJI in the current year and the amount expected to be available in succeeding fiscal years, when determining which projects to support.
- CAT Grant applications will be rated based on the following criteria:
- Goals and objectives of the proposed project
- How the training would address a critical need of the court or association
- Need for outside funding to support the program
- Soundness of the approach in achieving the project’s educational or training objectives
- Integration of distance learning and technology in project design and delivery
- Qualifications of the trainer(s) to be hired or the specific criteria that will be used to select the trainer(s) (training project)
- Likelihood of effective implementation and integration of the modified curriculum into the state or local jurisdiction’s ongoing educational programming (curriculum adaptation project)
- Commitment of the court or association to the training program (training project)
- Expressions of interest by judges and/or court personnel, as demonstrated by letters of support.
For more information, visit SJI.
