The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for its Community-based Approaches to Prevent and Address Hate Crime.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/04/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
With this solicitation, BJA seeks 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. The program is also designed to develop community-informed models for preventing and responding to hate speech and incidents and facilitating reconciliation and community healing.
Goals
- Develop and enhance comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes, speech, and incidents that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase victim reporting, and improve prevention efforts and responses to hate crimes.
- Develop and enhance activities to de-escalate community tension, empower community efforts for conflict resolution, and strengthen community resiliency.
Objectives
- Invest in community-led initiatives that prevent hate crimes through conflict resolution, community empowerment, and education.
- Support programs that result in increased reporting of hate crimes to law enforcement or other trusted community institutions.
- Establish and disseminate a catalogue of various initiatives, efforts, and activities that have been implemented by communities to address hate crimes to promote replication.
- Develop pathways for more grassroots organizations to access federal grant funds to prevent and address hate crimes.
- Create a variety of ways to elevate the work and voices of community leaders and organizations that have implemented these programs (at conferences, in written materials, through social media or other media content, etc.).
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to Be Awarded under This Solicitation: $8,400,000
- Category1: anticipated maximum amount $400,000
- Category 2: anticipated maximum amount $2,000,000
Period of Performance Duration
36 months
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
- Public– and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- This includes community-based organizations and civil rights organizations that are tribal, non-profit, and academic.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.