Office on Violence Against Women Grants for Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations
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Application: Mar 28, 2022
For programmatic or technical
questions:
202.307.6026
ovw.underserved@usdoj.gov
For financial questions:
888.514.8556
ovw.gfmd@usdoj.gov
Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) provides grants to develop and implement outreach strategies targeted at, and provide victim services to, underserved populations of adult and youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Program purpose areas include:
- Working with federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, agencies, and organizations to develop or enhance population specific services
- Strengthening the capacity of underserved populations to provide population specific services
- Strengthening the capacity of traditional victim service providers to provide population specific services
- Strengthening the effectiveness of criminal and civil justice interventions by providing training for law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, and other court personnel on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking in underserved populations
- Working in cooperation with an underserved population to develop and implement outreach, education, prevention, and intervention strategies that highlight available resources and the specific issues faced by victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking from underserved populations.
Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations that are population specific organizations or victim service providers.
In addition to identifying as a population specific organization or victim service provider, applicants must also be one of the sub-types listed below:
- Programs that are run by and for deaf individuals
- Organizations with the primary purpose of serving LGBT individuals
- Organizations with the primary purpose of serving members of a religious minority who face barriers accessing and using victim services
- Service providers that have received two continuation awards under the OVW Training and Services to End Violence Against Women with Disabilities Grant Program
Award ceiling: $450,000
Expected number of awards: 10
Project period: 3 years
Total program funding: $4,500,000
Links to the full announcement and the online application process are available through grants.gov.
To locate application instructions:
- Open the grants.gov announcement.
- Click on the package tab.
- Choose to preview the opportunity package.
- Click on the button that says download instructions.
- Application instructions will be in your browser download folder.
Applicants are strongly encouraged, but not required, to submit a letter of intent to ovw.underserved@usdoj.gov by March 16, 2022.
Applicants should submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by March 28, 2022.
Submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by March 31, 2022.
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Organizations (2)
- U.S. Department of Justice, view details
- Office on Violence Against Women, view details
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