Grants to Enhance Community-based Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program

For program-related questions:
202.307.6026
OVW.Cultural@usdoj.gov

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866.606.8220
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JustGrants:
866.655.4482
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This program offers grants to support community-based organizations in providing culturally relevant services to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, as well as the development of innovative culturally specific strategies to enhance access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to using more traditional programs.

Funds must be used for:

• Working with state and local governments and social service agencies to develop and enhance effective strategies to provide culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
• Increasing community capacity to provide culturally specific resources and support for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes and their families
• Strengthening criminal justice interventions, by providing training for law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities on culturally specific responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
• Enhancing traditional services to the target population through the leadership of culturally specific programs
• Collaborating with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources for the target population
• Providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
• Providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, workplace needs, and emergency assistance for the target population
• Examining the dynamics of culture and its impact on victimization and healing

Priority will be given to proposed projects that:

• Work to combat human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked to illegal immigration and cartel operations, that support safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking
• Provide victim services, especially housing, and improve law enforcement response in rural and remote areas, Tribal nations, and small towns that often lack resources to effectively combat domestic violence and sexual assault

Eligible applicants are nonprofit, faith-based, and community-based organizations that meet one of the criteria below:

• Primary purpose is providing culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
• Primary purpose is providing culturally specific services who can partner with a program having demonstrated expertise in serving victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking

Award ceiling: $475,000
Award floor: $400,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 50
Estimated total program funding: $22,500,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

While not required, applicants are strongly encouraged to email a letter of intent to OVW.Cultural@usdoj.gov by July 15, 2025.

Applicants should submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by August 1, 2025.

Submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by August 5, 2025.