The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to support comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase victim reporting, and improve responses to hate crimes.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/12/2022
Size of the Grant: $300,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The Community-based Approaches to Prevent and Address Hate Crimes Program supports community-based organizations (CBOs) and civil rights organizations to develop comprehensive approaches to addressing hate crimes. Approaches under this program should be designed to (1) prevent hate crimes; (2) promote community awareness, resiliency, preparedness, and healing; (3) increase victim reporting of hate incidents; and (4) improve responses to hate crimes.
Support comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase victim reporting, and improve prevention efforts and responses to hate crimes.
Objectives
- Build or enhance partnerships and coordination among community-based organizations, justice agencies, educational institutions, houses of worship, and other stakeholder organizations to develop local strategies for education, outreach, prevention, preparedness, and improved responses to hate crimes.
- Establish effective outreach, education, and engagement strategies that meet the specific needs of the groups or populations being served such as language access services, culturally specific materials, or services and accommodations under the American Disabilities Act.
- Develop comprehensive approaches that expand and enhance strategies — including tools, policies, and procedures — to prevent and respond to hate crimes.
- Develop activities that create a shared sense of empathy and a community environment that will not tolerate hate.
- Promote trauma-informed services and outreach materials that foster community resiliency and address the specific needs of hate crime victims.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $300,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- 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
- Private institutions of higher education
- Other: This includes community-based organizations and civil rights organizations that are tribal, nonprofit, for-profit, and academic-based institutions.
To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process, to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding.
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