The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding 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.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/17/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support community-based organizations (CBOs) and civil rights organizations in their work to develop comprehensive approaches to addressing hate crimes. Approaches under this program should be designed to prevent hate crimes; promote community awareness, resiliency, preparedness, and healing; increase victim reporting of hate incidents; and improve responses to hate crimes.
Goals
Support 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.
Objectives
Objectives include:
- Build or enhance partnerships and coordination among community-based organizations, justice agencies, educational institutions, houses of worship, and other stakeholder organizations to develop local strategies for education, outreach, prevention, preparedness, and improved responses to hate crimes.
- Establish effective outreach, education, and engagement strategies that meet the specific needs of the groups or populations being served such as language access services, culturally specific materials or services and accommodations under the American Disabilities Act.
- Develop comprehensive approaches that expand and enhance strategies—including resources, tools, policies, and procedures—to prevent and respond to hate crimes.
- Develop activities that facilitate dialogue and defuse tensions between groups, and that create a shared sense of empathy and a community environment that will not tolerate hate.
- Establish practices or activities aimed to reduce the frequency and impact of hate speech, hate incidents, and hate crimes.
- Promote trauma-informed services and outreach materials that foster community resiliency and address the specific needs of hate crime victims.
Funding Information
Category 1: Community-based Organizations
- Dollar Amount for Award: $400,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
Category 2: National Civil Rights Organizations
- Dollar Amount for Award: $1,000,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligible Applicants:
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- 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
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
This includes community-based organizations and civil rights organizations that are tribal, non-profit, and academic.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.