Grants to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program

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This opportunity (short title: EM Program) provides grants for community projects designed to engage men and youth in preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Funding must be used to implement education, training, or other programming that enables men and youth to serve as allies in the prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Required activities:

• Participate in OVW-sponsored training and technical assistance
• Collect and report performance indicators
• Participate in an assessment or evaluation, if OVW conducts one that requires recipient involvement
• Create or expand a coordinated community response (CCR) team to guide project activities
• Ensure the availability of crisis intervention assistance for children, youth, and community members at all educational, outreach, and training events not specifically targeted to first responders or allied professionals
• Cross-train project staff, partner organizations/programs, and CCR team members to expand their knowledge and skills to better understand each other's role(s) as well as improve the project and activities
• Engage in a planning phase in the first three to six months of the grant period prior to implementing the project
• Identify males to serve as role models, positive influencers, change agents, and/or mentors
• Adopt a specific model and/or strategies that will be used to meet the goals and objectives of the proposed project
• Identify and adopt project goals and objectives that will integrate education on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or sex trafficking, into existing male- focused programs

Priority consideration will be given to

• Measures 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
• Projects to 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
• Projects designed to uplift, promote positivity, or improve the self-esteem of men and youth as capable allies in the prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking

Eligible applicants:

• Tribal governments including Alaska Native Villages and regional/village corporations
• Tribal organizations
• Units of local government or an agency of a local government
• Victim service providers
• Nonprofit, nongovernmental entities
• Faith-based organizations

Award ceiling: $350,000
Award floor: $100,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 10
Estimated total program funding: $3,500,000

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.EngagingMen@usdoj.gov by June 23, 2025.

Applicants should submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by July 8, 2025.

Submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by July 10, 2025.