The Office on Violence Against Women is soliciting applications for its 2024 Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program.
Donor Name: Office on Violence Against Women
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Grant Program is intended to increase the availability of civil and criminal legal assistance needed to effectively aid victims (ages 11 and older) of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by providing funds for comprehensive direct legal services to victims in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or violence.
Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes
- To implement, expand, and establish cooperative efforts and projects between domestic violence, dating violence, and sexual assault victim service providers and legal assistance providers to provide legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
- To implement, expand, and establish efforts and projects to provide legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault by organizations with a demonstrated history of providing direct legal or advocacy services on behalf of these victims.
- To implement, expand, and establish efforts and projects to provide competent, supervised pro bono legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, except not more than 10 percent of grant funds awarded may be used for this purpose.
OVW Priority Areas
Applicants that state that they are addressing a priority area and meet the criteria for that priority area will be given special consideration:
- Advance equity and tribal sovereignty as essential components of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking by improving outreach, services, civil and criminal justice responses, prevention, and support for survivors from historically marginalized and underserved communities, particularly those facing disproportionate rates or impacts of violence and multiple barriers to services, justice, and safety. To receive special consideration under this priority, the applicant must have a demonstrated and distinctive history of using culturally appropriate and linguistically specific strategies to serve communities that have been historically marginalized and face barriers to accessing mainstream systems and service providers. At a minimum, to meet the priority, an applicant should describe these barriers and how the applicant builds on the unique help-seeking strategies and sources of resilience found in its historically marginalized community. In addition, an applicant may provide data regarding disproportionate rates or impact of violence in its community.
- Strengthen efforts to prevent and end sexual assault, including victim services and civil and criminal justice responses.
Funding Information
- This program typically makes awards in the range of $600,000.00 – $900,000.00. OVW estimates that it will make up to 45 awards for an estimated $31,800,000.00.
- The award period is 36 months for competitive applications, and 24 months for non-competitive applications.
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply for this program:
- Private nonprofit entities.
- Indian tribal governments, including tribal consortia. A “tribal government” is the governing body of an Indian tribe or a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation (as defined in, or established pursuant to, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
- Tribal organizations. A “tribal organization” is the governing body of any Indian tribe; any legally established organization of Indians which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body of a tribe or tribes to be served, or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of Indians in all phases of its activities; or any tribal nonprofit organization
- Territorial organizations. For the purposes of this solicitation, a “territorial organization” is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking within a United States Territory, which includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Publicly funded organizations, not acting in a governmental capacity, such as law schools.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
