The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects to inform policy and practice to prevent and combat hate crimes and their effects under two categories: (1) preventing and addressing hate crimes and (2) school-based hate crimes.
Donor Name: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/27/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
Categories
- Category 1: Research and Evaluation on Preventing and Addressing Hate Crimes
- NIJ seeks applications to conduct research and evaluation on preventing and addressing hate crimes in the following four topics:
- Topic 1: Evaluations of interventions to prevent hate crimes
- Topic 2: Research to improve understanding of strategies used by targeted communities and their members to reduce the risk of hate crime victimization
- Topic 3: Evaluations of interventions to address the needs of hate crime survivors and their communities
- Topic 4: Research to improve understanding, identification, and response to understudied bias types and hate crime motivations
- NIJ seeks applications to conduct research and evaluation on preventing and addressing hate crimes in the following four topics:
- Category 2: Research and Evaluation on School-Based Hate Crimes
- Reported hate crimes in K-12 schools more than doubled between 2018 and 2022. These incidents negatively impact the learning of targeted students and the wider school community and can have serious consequences for K-12 youth, creating an atmosphere of tension and fear that undermines the ability of all students to learn.14 Understanding school-based hate crimes and developing effective strategies to prevent them and combat their effects is necessary to create safe learning environments for young students. Multiple resources have been created, and schools across the nation have implemented strategies to prevent and reduce the effects of school-based incidents.15 However, research is needed to better understand school-based hate crimes to inform policy and practice, and evaluations of strategies being employed in schools are needed to understand their effectiveness and inform implementation.
- Under this category, NIJ seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation on hate crimes in the K-12 education system, specifically in two areas:
- Research to understand the nature of and response to school-based hate crimes.
- Outcome evaluations of school-wide or individual-level programs, practices, and strategies to prevent and respond to school-based hate crimes.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,200,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000.
Grant Period
60 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
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- County governments
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- For the purposes of this NOFO, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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