With this solicitation, OVC seeks to enable an organization to provide financial and technical assistance to approximately 300 communities (100 each year) nationwide to conduct public education and awareness activities on crime victims’ rights and services in their jurisdictions during the 2025–2027 National Crime Victims’ Rights Weeks (NCVRW).
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/24/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The goals of this project are to increase public awareness of crime victims’ rights and services nationwide during the 2025–2027 National Crime Victims’ Rights Weeks and strengthen the capacity of victim assistance agencies to develop a broad, collaborative approach to community awareness that highlights services for all types of crime victims.
Objectives
- Objective 1: Financially, programmatically, and administratively support approximately 300 subgrants (100 each year) of up to $5,000 each for communities and victim assistance organizations nationwide.
- Objective 2: Provide technical assistance for the recipient organizations to promote NCVRW in communities across the Nation.
- Objective 3: Market the program so that it meets the goal of funding a community awareness project in every state.
- Objective 4: Assemble a group of expert reviewers who are familiar with or have direct experience with NCVRW and the victim assistance field, and who are willing to volunteer their services to review applications and be a part of the selection process.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $1,750,000.
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: Award will be up to $1,750,000.
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public– and State-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- 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
- Private institutions of higher education
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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