Grants $150,000-$500,000
Deadline: May 17, 2016
Create safer neighborhoods through a sustained reduction in gang violence and gun crime
BJA is seeking applications for funding under the Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program, also known as Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). This program furthers the Department’s mission and violent crime reduction strategy by providing support to state, local, and tribal efforts to reduce gun crime and gang-related violence.
What this grant does for your agency
The purpose of PSN is to reduce gun crime and gang violence by the most violent offenders in the most violent neighborhoods by employing a research-driven, intelligence-led, and problem-solving approach to reduce firearms and gang violence through enforcement, deterrence, and prevention. BJA is seeking proposals from applicants interested in developing innovative, comprehensive, data-driven approaches to reduce chronic gun crime and/or gang violence in their jurisdiction. BJA expects agencies to work toward a result; a PSN result is defined as a plausible, scientifically-based finding that a solution had either an effect or no effect on the problem. The involvement of a research partner is indispensable to achieving this result.
Agencies awarded the FY2016 Project Safe Neighborhoods Grants: Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program receive grants of $150,000-$500,000.
Only a limited number of grants will be awarded.
BJA estimates that it will make approximately 12 awards of up to $150,000-$500,000 each for an estimated 24-month project period, beginning on October 1, 2016.
- Category 1 (Competition ID: BJA-2016-9341): USAO district populations of 5 million or more. Contingent upon the availability of funds, awards of up to $500,000 will be made.
- Category 2 (Competition ID: BJA-2016-9342): USAO district populations of 2 million–4,999,999. Contingent upon the availability of funds, awards of up to $300,000 will be made.
- Category 3 (Competition ID: BJA-2016-9343): USAO district populations under 2 million. Contingent upon the availability of funds, awards of up to $150,000 will be made.
- Category 4 (Competition ID: BJA-2016-9344): Federally recognized American Indian
tribes and Alaska Native tribes, and/or tribal organizations. Contingent upon the
availability of funds, awards of up to $150,000 may be made.
Grant Eligibility
For full eligibility details, see the Grant Guidelines:
Eligible applicants are PSN Task Force fiscal agents for the U.S. Attorney districts and federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). All fiscal agents must be certified by the relevant U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO). Eligible USAO-certified fiscal agents include states, units of local government, educational institutions, faith-based and other community organizations, private nonprofit organizations, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). For details on the fiscal agent certification process, see www.bja.gov/programs/psn/cert_process.html.
NOTE: If an applicant is not a fiscal agent that has received the required certification by its local USAO, its application will be summarily rejected.
About the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
BJA’s mission is to provide leadership and services in grant administration and criminal justice policy development to support local, state, and tribal justice strategies to achieve safer communities. BJA supports programs and initiatives in the areas of law enforcement, justice information sharing, countering terrorism, managing offenders, combating drug crime and abuse, adjudication, advancing tribal justice, crime prevention, protecting vulnerable populations, and capacity building. More
Grant Deadline
Grant applications are due no later than 11:59 p.m. EST, Tues., May 17, 2016.
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Funding Opportunity Number: BJA-2016-9202. Apply for the FY2016 Project Safe Neighborhoods Grants: Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program