The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), in coordination with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), seeks applications for funding to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/18/2023
Size of the Grant: $4,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
OJP’s Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.
BJA is administering OJP’s CVIPI, working in partnership with OJJDP and OVC. This collaborative approach will help ensure jurisdictions have access to expertise to address community violence that involves youth, young adults, and adults, both as the individuals responsible for perpetrating this violence and those who are victims of it. Awards made under this solicitation may be managed by BJA, OJJDP, or OVC, depending on the nature of the funded project.
Solicitation Categories:
- Category 1: CVIPI for Community Based/Tribal Organizations
- Category 2: CVIPI for City/County/Tribal Governments
- Category 3: CVIPI for State Governments
- Category 4: CVIPI Capacity Building for Community Based Organizations via Intermediary Organizations
Categories 1 and 2
Categories 1 and 2 support efforts to develop, implement, expand, and/or enhance comprehensive CVI strategies that will maximize existing and new resources. These funding categories are intended for organizations and local government entities at all stages of CVI implementation. Applicants that are not currently implementing CVI strategies may seek financial and technical support to plan and stand up new programs. Applicants currently implementing CVI strategies may seek financial and technical support to expand or enhance the reach of existing services.
Category 3
Category 3 will fund state government agencies to coordinate and support local-level CVI strategies through subawards across multiple communities in one or more jurisdictions within the state. Applicants may propose to: (1) develop and implement new state-level strategies for supporting CVI implementation at the local level, or (2) enhance or expand the reach of existing state-level strategies for supporting CVI implementation at the local level.
Category 4
Community-based organizations are central to carrying out CVI strategies. However, many CBOs face significant barriers to accessing and administering federal grant resources directly. Under this category, OJP will fund up to three intermediary organizations, serving as fiscal agents, to identify and provide intensive training and technical assistance, oversight, and subawards for up to five CBOs each over the course of the project period. These intermediary organizations may be national, regional, or more localized organizations with a well-established capacity and track record in working with CBOs, particularly those focused on meeting the needs of underserved communities. The CBOs will use subaward funding to increase their capacity to serve high risk individuals through CVI strategies and to support the professional development and wellbeing of CVI practitioners.
Goals
The overall goal of CVIPI is to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention strategies.
Objectives
Applicants for Categories 1–2 should address the objectives that are relevant to their proposed program/project in the Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables web-based form:
Build a new working group or strengthen an existing working group to serve as the CVIPI team. The CVIPI team’s membership and expertise should be tailored to best address the community’s challenges and needs. A model CVIPI team would be diverse, pulling in individuals with expertise in the topic areas and communities of focus who can serve to design and champion the program to success. Fully organized CVIPI teams may include experts from the community of focus (e.g., community advocates), CBOs, government and local government agencies (e.g., mayor’s office, county executive’s office), private and public service organizations (e.g., victim service organizations, treatment centers, hospitals, clinics), educational institutions (e.g., local schools, local universities), and the criminal justice system (e.g., probation and parole, local law enforcement, local prosecutors) as well as program implementation experts and research partners. CVIPI teams should meet regularly and should have clear, shared expectations and commitment by all members. CVIPI teams should be formalized through letters of commitment and/or MOUs.
The objectives for Category 3
- Enhance the state’s capacity to lead proactive community violence intervention strategies, working with local or tribal partners to support development and implementation of state and local level CVI strategies.
- Enhance the state’s strategies to support local and community-focused capacity building activities that enhance efforts to prevent and address community violence.
- Ensure the responsible and effective administration of subawards.
The objectives for Category 4
- Deliver TTA and subawards designed to enhance community partners’ capacity to
- implement and lead community violence intervention strategies, including activities designed to build community capacity to successfully seek and manage funding to sustain efforts long term .
- Ensure the responsible and effective administration of subawards.
Priority Areas
The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government In support of this Executive Order, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality.
- To receive this consideration, the applicant must describe how the proposed project(s) will address potential racial inequities and contribute to greater access to services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality, and identify how the project design and implementation will specifically incorporate the input or participation of those communities and populations disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and the criminal justice system overall. Examples addressing this requirement include, but are not limited to, the following: budgeted project planning and/or implementation meetings with community stakeholders representing historically underserved and marginalized communities; outreach and/or public awareness campaigns specifically tailored to historically underserved and marginalized communities to encourage participation in the proposed project(s); budgeted incorporation of members representing historically underserved and marginalized communities in program evaluation, surveys, or other means of project feedback; and partnership with organizations that primarily serve communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality.
- Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget WebBased Form) identify as a culturally specific organization.
- To receive this additional priority consideration, applicants must describe how being a culturally specific organization (or funding the culturally specific subrecipient organization(s)) will enhance their ability to implement the proposed project(s) and should also specify which populations are intended or expected to be served or to have their needs addressed under the proposed project (s).
- Culturally specific organizations are defined for the purposes of this solicitation as private nonprofit or tribal organizations whose primary purpose as a whole is to provide culturally specific services to racial and ethnic groups, including, among others, Black people, Hispanic and Latino people, Native American and other Indigenous peoples of North America (including Alaska Native, Eskimo, and Aleut), Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and/or Pacific Islanders.
- Applicants that can demonstrate existing partnerships with multidisciplinary team stakeholder members (i.e., letters of commitment and/or MOUs) will receive priority consideration. For those applicants unable to demonstrate existing partnerships at the time of application, if awarded, these applicants will be required to submit documentation (i.e., letters of commitment and/or MOUs) that demonstrates the community stakeholder collaboration responsible for implementing the funded approach within 6 months of receiving the award.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $72,000,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards
- Categories 1–2 $2,000,000;
- Categories 3–4 $4,000,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligible Applicants
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Private institutions of higher education
- County governments
- 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
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
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