The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks applications for funding to develop evidence to better inform efforts to prevent and combat hate crimes and their effects.
Donor Name: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/16/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,000,000.00
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and combat hate crimes and their effects. Specifically, this solicitation seeks proposals to advance knowledge and understanding in the following two categories: preventing and addressing hate crimes; and school-based hate crimes. Within the first category, preventing and addressing hate crimes, NIJ is particularly interested in funding research and evaluations to: improve hate crime prevention efforts; improve reporting of hate crimes and hate incidents; and understand and address the needs of victims and their communities.
NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful engagement with the people with lived experience of the subject of study, including, but not limited to, justice practitioners, community members, crime victims, service providers, and individuals who have experienced justice system involvement.
Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity, discrimination, and bias across age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable.
Goals
The goal of this program is to develop evidence to better inform efforts to prevent and combat hate crimes and their effects.
Objectives
The primary objective of this solicitation is to generate and advance knowledge to improve hate crime reporting and prevention, to better address the needs of the victims of hate crimes and their communities, and to better understand the scope, characteristics, and outcomes of hate crime incidents in K-12 schools.
Priority Areas
- Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.
- Minority Serving Institutions
- NIJ will give special consideration in award decisions to proposals from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). MSIs include:
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
- Hispanic-serving Institutions (HSI) Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU)
- Alaska Native-serving Institutions or Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions (ANNH)
- Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI)
- Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving Institutions (AANAPISI)
- Native American-serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTI)
- NIJ will give special consideration in award decisions to proposals from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). MSIs include:
Funding Information
Category 1: Research and Evaluation on Preventing and Addressing Hate Crimes
- Dollar Amount for Award: $2,000,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months): 60 months
Category 2: Research on School-Based Hate Crime
- Dollar Amount for Award: $1,100,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months): 60 months
Eligible Applicants
- Small businesses
- Independent school districts
- City or township governments
- State governments
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility
- Only accredited research universities are eligible to apply to Category 2 of this solicitation.
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