For program-related questions:
202.353.8408
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888.514.8556
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This program provides 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 may be used for the following purposes:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Enhancing traditional services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the leadership of culturally specific programs offering services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
5. Working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources regarding victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
6. Providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
7. Providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance
8. Examining the dynamics of culture and its impact on victimization and healing

Special consideration will be given to projects that:

• Reduce violent crime against women and promote victim safety through investing in law enforcement, increasing prosecution, and promoting effective prevention
• Empower victims to become survivors by growing them past their vulnerabilities to a place of self-sufficiency
• Address the specific challenges that rural communities face in responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking

A complete list of program scope, allowable and unallowable activities, and priority areas determined by the Office on Violence Against Women is available in the application instructions.

Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations with the primary purpose of providing culturally specific services to one or more of the following racial and ethnic communities:

• American Indians, including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts
• Asian Americans
• Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders
• African Americans
• Hispanics and Latinos

The applicant organization must:

1. Have a board of directors or steering committee and staffing which is reflective of the culturally specific community it serves
2. Have demonstrated expertise in serving victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking or have entered into a formal partnership with an organization having such experience

Award ceiling: $300,000
Expected number of awards: 22
Project period: 24 months
Estimated total program funding: $6,266,235

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

While not required, applicants are encouraged to email a letter of intent to Charlayna.Brady@usdoj.gov by January 20, 2020.