The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications to involve the planning, development, and initial convening of a Corrections Thought Leaders Network.
Donor Name: National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/19/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to comprehensively plan, develop and convene a Corrections Leadership Thought Leader Network. The network would serve as an incubator of new ideas, research, considerations, and emergent topics and movements that impact the corrections field in all settings. This strategically places NIC and constituent agencies in a proactive stance and awareness of research into practice for all corrections disciplines – evidence-based strategies for work with justice involved individuals, learning and performance, supervisor/manager/senior level and executive leader development, changing people’s behavior, neuroscience research, artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) advances and its requisite impacts on corrections and specifically, learning and corrections applications, learning transfer into practice, and how to interpret research from diverse sources into corrections applications, and more.
Goals
The overarching goal of this cooperative agreement is the comprehensive planning, development and convening of a Corrections Thought Leader Network.
Objectives
The objectives of this cooperative agreement are to:
- Comprehensively plan, scope, develop and convene a corrections thought leader network to serve as an incubator of research, ideas, considerations, and emergent topics and movements that affect the corrections field in all settings.
- Develop a network plan, membership, structure, and materials to support a network that can translate public and private sector research of all types, including competency models for supervisor, manager, senior-level, and executive development in corrections. The group will consider what research should and must be for contemporary corrections agencies success and effectiveness.
- Collaboratively host and convene an initial meeting of a corrections thought leader network.
Funding Information
- NIC expects to make one award for as much as $125,000.00 for a 12-month project period, beginning on April 3, 2024.
- Requests for amounts more than a total of $125,000.00, including direct and indirect costs will not be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required.
- NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.
- NIC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
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