The Project Safe Neighborhoods( PSN) Leadership Team and OGR seek to support projects that prevent youth from joining transnational gangs.
Donor Name: Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS)
State: Massachusetts
Cities: Selected Cities
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/30/2022
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Details:
The purpose of this grant opportunity is to promote resilience by strengthening protective factors for youth, family and/or the community. Protective factors are characteristics that decrease the likelihood of a person becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence because they provide a buffer against risk.
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is a nationwide network designed to create safer neighborhoods by reducing gun violence and gun crime and sustaining that reduction. Per federal program law, the United States Attorney in each of the 94 federal districts across the country select a State Administering Agency to be responsible for the administration and implementation of PSN.
Applicants may focus on primary, secondary and/or tertiary intervention/prevention strategies and activities. Among other types of prevention strategies, applicants may include those that utilize and/or increase awareness about existing local resources that help to strengthen protective factors. All strategies must describe how the applicant’s project addresses and impacts the issue of recruitment by transnational gangs.
Funding & Applicant Eligibility
The Executive Office of Public Safety and Security’s (EOPSS) Office of Grants Research (OGR) will make available approximately $198,248 from the District of Massachusetts’ Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program to strengthen protective factors for those most in need of services and/or support in the 8 Target Cities (Boston, New Bedford, Brockton, Lawrence, Worcester, Springfield, Holyoke and Lowell), where violent transnational gangs are recruiting.
- Applicants may apply for a maximum of $100,000 to develop and implement promising or evidence-based prevention and/or intervention programming and activities for youth before, during, or after school.
- An eligible applicant must be either a K-12 public school OR nonprofit 501c3 located within one of the 8 previously identified PSN target cities. Due to limited funding, it is strongly Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested that a nonprofit and local school district residing within the same PSN target city communicate with one another because only one award will be made to any PSN target city.
- An applicant must provide an MOU or a letter of support from the Executive of either the Massachusetts State Police (MSP), Sheriff’s Office, local police department or District Attorney’s Office from the applicant’s jurisdiction showing support for the program being
submitted in order to be eligible to apply. - This is a competitive grant opportunity. A minimum of two awards will be made with these funds. Priority will be given to new applicants that have not previously received PSN funding for this purpose. OGR reserves the right to award additional proposals.
For more information, visit Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative Grant.
