Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice

 

Goal(s): The listing is designed to leverage the skills and abilities of community-based organizations (CBOs) and civil rights organizations to address hate crimes. The funding serves entire communities, but specifically can benefit both individuals and groups who may be targets of hate crimes, law enforcement and prosecution entities that wish to better prevent and respond to hate crimes, and service providers who work with individuals or groups who may experience hate crimes. This funding is unique because comprehensive approaches to hate crimes require incorporating lived experience into policies, developing community resiliency, and focusing on prevention. CBOs and civil rights organizations are uniquely suited to carry out this work. Existing funding streams aimed at addressing hate crimes largely focus on improving responses from law enforcement or prosecution agencies. Objective: The Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program provides funding to support comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase in victim reporting, and improve responses to hate crimes. Performance Measure 1: Number of times the grantee organization conducted outreach efforts or distributed educational materials to the stakeholder community and members of the public Performance Measure 2: Number of victims engaged in services

Active 16.047 Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice B - Project Grants Not applicable. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2022, Public Law 117-103, Statute 136,49, 127
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117-328 Not applicable. Local 18 - Sponsored organization 20 - Public nonprofit institution/organization 21 - Other public institution/organization 32 - Minority group 33 - Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans) 36 - Private nonprofit institution/organization 37 - Quasi-public nonprofit organization 38 - Other private institution/organization 39 - Anyone/general public 40 - Native American Organizations 57 - Black 58 - American Indian 59 - Spanish Origin 60 - Asian 61 - Other Non-White 62 - Migrant 63 - U.S. Citizen 64 - Refugee/Alien 65 - Veteran/Service person/Reservist (including dependents 66 - Women 69 - Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled) 70 - Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease) 71 - Mentally Disabled 78 - School Applicants are required to submit a program abstract; a program narrative; a program budget worksheet and budget narrative; an SF424; Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (if applicable); Financial Management and System of Internal Controls Questionnaire; Disclosure of Process related to Executive Compensation (if applicable); Research and Evaluation Independence and Integrity (if applicable); Request and Justification for Employee Compensation Waiver (if applicable); SF-LLL; Applicant Disclosure of Duplication in Cost Items; DOJ Certified Standard Assurances; DOJ Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements; and Applicant Disclosure and Justification - DOJ High Risk Grantees (if applicable) Preapplication coordination is not applicable. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. See the current fiscal year's solicitation available at the Office of Justice Programs web site at (http://www.ojp.gov/funding/solicitations.htm and http://ojp.gov/financialguide/DOJ/PreawardRequirements/index.htm for additional information. Upon approval by the Assistant Attorney General (for science offices, would be the Director of the applicable Office), successful applicants are notified via the JustGrants System. One copy of the grant award must be signed by the authorized official and returned to the Office of Justice Programs within 45 days of award date. For further information, please see http://ojp.gov/financialguide/DOJ/PreawardRequirements/chapter2.2a.htm. Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines From 60 to 90 days. There are no appeal rights for rejection of a discretionary application, but for discretionary awards, please see section 28 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 18. In some cases, award periods may be extended if specific criteria are met. For details, please review the discussion of no-cost extensions in the Criteria for Award Extension section of the Department of Justice Grants Financial Guide available at http://ojp.gov/financialguide/DOJ/PostawardRequirements/chapter3.2d.htm. See the current fiscal years' program solicitation available at the Office of Justice Programs web site at http://ojp.gov/funding/Explore/CurrentFundingOpportunities.htm Funding under this program may be used to: • support public awareness and educational campaigns, outreach programs, trauma informed services and support, and preparedness trainings or planning; • partner with law enforcement and prosecution entities to improve agencies trainings, policies, and procedures for responding to hate crimes; • support community institutions to better protect communities, empower victims and witnesses of hate crimes to report, and to build and strengthen foundations of trust and understanding between law enforcement and the public; • support new or existing working groups made up of a broad range of stakeholders to develop a multi-faceted approach to preventing and responding to hate crimes; and, • develop resource guides, trainings, public awareness campaigns, or other education and outreach materials developed for both the public and/or law enforcement (materials should be translated as appropriate and distributed broadly). Performance Reports: To assist in fulfilling the Departments responsibilities under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), Public Law 103-62, and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, Public Law 111–352, recipients must provide data that measures the results of their work. Not applicable. In accordance with the requirement set forth in 2 CFR 200, Subpart F, grantees must maintain all financial records, supporting documents, statistical records, and all other records pertinent to the award for at least 3 years following the close of the most recent audit. For additional guidance, please visit http://ojp.gov/financialguide/DOJ/PostawardRequirements/chapter3.16a.htm. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. Awards will have a performance period of 36 months. For specifics pertaining to this program, please see the current fiscal year’s program solicitation available at the Office of Justice Programs web site (http://ojp.gov/funding/Explore/CurrentFundingOpportunities.htm). For additional information, see the Department of Justice Grants Financial Guide section on “Period of Availability of Funds" at http://ojp.gov/financialguide/DOJ/PostawardRequirements/chapter3.2a.htm. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: Lump. None/Not specified. Sunny Schnitzer
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Assistance
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531 USA
Olivia.C.Schnitzer@usdoj.gov
Phone: 202-451-7153 https://www.ojp.gov 15-0404-0-1-754 (Project Grants (Discretionary)) FY 22$3,973,593.00; FY 23 est $10,000,000.00; FY 24 est $10,000,000.00; FY 21$0.00; - Not applicable/available. Not applicable. Fiscal Year 2022 Funding under this program may be used to support public awareness and educational campaigns, outreach programs, trauma informed services and supports, and preparedness trainings or planning. Funding may also be used to partner with law enforcement and prosecution entities to improve agencies trainings, policies, and procedures for responding to hate crimes.