The Department of Justice (DOJ) Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/14/2022
Grant Size: $915,514
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The PSN Grant Program is awarded based on a formula and administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. It awards funds to certified fiscal agents that work with PSN Teams in federal judicial districts to support those districts’ PSN strategies. Each PSN Team selects a fiscal agent to receive the federal funds and then make subawards to, or enter into contracts with, each entity that will carry out the district’s PSN grant strategy.
Goals
- Create and implement sustainable collaborations and comprehensive violent crime reduction strategies with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (where applicable) law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to address the most pressing violent crime problems in a community.
- Foster community trust in, and increase legitimacy of, federal, state, and local law enforcement entities through the development of violent crime reduction strategies, public education approaches, and transparent accountability mechanisms.
- Effectively use intelligence and data to identify violent crime drivers and individuals at risk of violence victimization or perpetration in order to intervene, prevent, and improve outcomes.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $20,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $915,514
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) 36
Eligibility Criteria
Certified PSN Team fiscal agents for the federal judicial districts. All fiscal agents must be certified by the relevant district’s United States Attorney (USA). Eligible USA-certified fiscal agents include states, units of local government, educational institutions, faith-based and other community organizations, private nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofits), and federally recognized American Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
