Important Submission Guidelines!
Applicants must submit the required documents in Grants.gov by the Grants.gov deadline to proceed with the final application submission in JustGrants. Applicants will not be able to finalize their application in JustGrants if the Grants.gov deadline is missed. Applicants are encouraged to submit all application materials at least 48-72 hours prior to application deadlines to allow time to correct any problems or errors.
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The purpose of the Patrick Leahy BVP Program is to reimburse states, counties, federally recognized tribes, cities, and local jurisdictions up to 50% of the cost of body armor vests purchased for law enforcement officers.
Deadline: June 14, 2021
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This program provides funding to support various training and technical assistance providers and comprehensive strategies in response to the growing addiction crisis that continues to impact our nation’s families and communities.
Grants.gov deadline: June 14, 2021
JustGrants deadline: June 28, 2021
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This program provides resources to states, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, or expand effective reentry practices and service delivery systems that address individuals’ needs and reduce recidivism.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 14, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: June 28, 2021
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Funding through this program is used to enhance, test, implement, and evaluate policies, practices, and technology to address and reduce the use of contraband cellphones in correctional facilities.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 14, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: June 28, 2021
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Funding through this program is used to implement an evidence management program to inventory, track, and report untested and unsubmitted sexual assault kits.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 14, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: June 28, 2021
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This program provides funding to states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to increase the capacity of publicly funded forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples, thereby helping to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis and/or prevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 15, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: June 29, 2021
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This program is designed to enhance the capacities of state, local, territorial, and tribal criminal justice systems to prevent, investigate, and respond to economic, cyber, and high-technology crimes by delivering training and technical assistance to diverse audiences.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 15, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: June 29, 2021
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This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal community corrections agencies to improve supervision capacity to prevent recidivism and reduce crime in their jurisdictions.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 15, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: June 29, 2021
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This program will fund a strategic approach to crime reduction that leverages community knowledge and expertise to build public trust with law enforcement and make neighborhoods safer.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program provides funding to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances of abuse.
Grants.gov deadline: June 21, 2021
JustGrants deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program provides support to criminal justice agencies to partner with mental health agencies and reduce crime and recidivism associated with people with mental illnesses and co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program serves to improve: (1) state and local jurisdictions’ capacities to respond to violent crime and (2) the functioning of the criminal justice system through the investigation and prosecution of cases resulting from sexual assault kit evidence and the collection of lawfully owed DNA.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program provides funding to assist in defraying the costs associated with postconviction case review, evidence location, and DNA testing in violent felony cases (as defined by state law) where the results of such testing might show actual innocence.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program is designed to create and foster safer communities through a sustained reduction in violent crime.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This opportunity will establish a cooperative agreement with one training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to further develop the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) National TTA Program to support and deliver TTA to PSN Teams, state and local law enforcement, other criminal justice professionals, and research partners.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program increases the capacity of state and local prosecution offices to address violent crime cold cases.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program provides funding for state, local, and tribal governments to enhance or implement performance-based and outcomes-based contracts with reentry, permanent supportive housing, or recovery housing providers to reduce recidivism and address the substance use disorders impacting formerly incarcerated people.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program is designed to improve correctional educational and employment services for general inmate populations and to improve treatment services for offenders with substance use disorders.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program supports building partnerships between researchers and practitioners locally to improve outcomes, programs, and communities, working with a set of Smart Suite site-based programs.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal community supervision agencies to develop and test new or enhanced applications of the swift, certain, and fair principles of intervention to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people under community supervision.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 22, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 6, 2021
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks proposals for competitive funding under the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program, which awards grants to states and units of local government to help improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 24, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 8, 2021
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This solicitation is for State Administering Agencies to apply for formula funds available through the Coverdell Program.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 24, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 8, 2021
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Through this program, BJA will support grants in two focus areas by supporting forensic pathology fellowships and providing resources necessary for ME/C offices to achieve accreditation.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 24, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 8, 2021
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This program provides funding to develop and implement innovative and research-based responses that address a range of criminal justice system problems. It employs the Justice Reinvestment approach, which recognizes that every justice agency has a role to play in preventing crime, ensuring a fair and efficient justice system, facilitating appropriate sentencing and treatment, and protecting community security.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 28, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 12, 2021
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This program supports efforts of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies and their partners in developing comprehensive approaches to address a precipitous increase in hate crimes.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 29, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 13, 2021
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This program provides funding to conduct outreach and offer training on hate crimes, as well as investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 29, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 13, 2021
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This program will support national training and technical assistance to build the capacities of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies to work closely with victims and community-and school-based partners to conduct outreach on hate crimes, offer training on them, and to investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 29, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 13, 2021
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This solicitation seeks a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to provide information, resources, and TTA to state, local, and tribal community supervision agencies seeking to develop and test new or enhanced applications of the SCF principles using a data-driven, collaborative process that is informed by research and responsive to local circumstances.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 29, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 13, 2021
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This program assists state, local, and tribal law enforcement with enhancing their investigative and prosecutorial resources to improve their ability to hold violent gun offenders accountable and reduce violent crime.
Grants.gov Deadline: June 30, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 14, 2021
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This initiative seeks to implement transdisciplinary crisis response training to educate and prepare law enforcement and correctional officers so that they are equipped to appropriately interact with people who have behavioral health conditions or disabilities in the course of completing their job responsibilities.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 2021
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This program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental illness and co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 2021
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Through this solicitation, BJA seeks training and technical assistance providers and subject experts to help states apply the Justice Reinvestment Initiative approach — data-driven problem analysis and evidence-based solutions — to improve public safety.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 2021
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This opportunity will build on the current training and technical assistance program that was started in fiscal year 2020 to assist in the development and implementation of the National Ashanti Alert Network.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 2021
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This opportunity provides competitive grants and technical assistance to small law enforcement agencies in rural locations to address the unique challenges these departments face in combating violent crime.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 2021
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This program provides competitive microgrants and technical assistance to small law enforcement agencies in rural locations to address the unique challenges these departments face in combatting violent crime.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 2021
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The Smart Policing Initiative provides funding to enable police agencies to effectively use evidence-based practices, data, and technology.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 2021
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The JAG Program is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to states and units of local government. This opportunity will provide funds to eligible states as described in the solicitation.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 8, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 22, 2021
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This opportunity provides funding to law enforcement agencies seeking to purchase body-worn cameras (BWCs) to establish or expand comprehensive body-worn camera programs with a specific and demonstrated plan to implement this technology to maximize the benefits of BWCs.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 12, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 26, 2021
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This program will fund projects to construct, renovate, or upgrade child-friendly family visiting spaces in correctional facilities.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 12, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: July 26, 2021
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The JAG Program is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to states and units of local government. BJA will award JAG Program funds to eligible units of local government as described in this opportunity.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 26, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: August 9, 2021
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This program is designed to improve K-12 school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence and ensure a positive school climate.
Grants.gov Deadline: August 2, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: August 16, 2021
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Child-Friendly Family Visiting Spaces in Jails and Prisons Program Funding Webinar
Date/Time: June 10, 2021, 3 p.m. ET
This webinar will provide guidance and information about this opportunity, which will provide grants for construction, renovation, or upgrades of child-friendly family visiting spaces in correctional facilities, as well as for revisions of policies and practices to support child-friendly visitation experiences.
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Responding to the 2021 Solicitation for the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
Date/Time: June 15, 2021, 3 p.m. ET
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FY 2021 BJA Hate Crimes Funding Opportunities
Date/Time: June 16, 2021, 3 p.m. ET
This webinar will provide guidance to potential applicants to BJA's three hate crimes funding opportunities.
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BJA FY21 STOP School Violence Program Solicitation Webinar
Date/Time: June 17, 2021, 2 p.m. ET
This webinar will provide guidance and information about this solicitation.
WEBINAR RECORDINGS
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The Project Safe Neighborhoods FY 2021 Grant Announcement
Webinar held: May 19, 2021
Webinar presenters will provide an overview of the FY 2021 Project Safe Neighborhoods funding opportunity.
Watch the Recording | Access the Presentation | Read the Transcript
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FY 2021 COSSAP Site-Based Solicitation Webinar
Webinar held: May 18, 2021, 2 p.m. ET
Webinar presenters will provide an overview of the FY 2021 COSSAP opportunity and how to apply.
Watch the Recording | Access the Presentation
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Application Mechanics: Submitting an Application
This webinar from the Department of Justice (DOJ) JustGrants team will focus on the application submission process and will provide targeted assistance to applicants applying for DOJ funding opportunities.
Watch the Recording | Access the Presentation.
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Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program FY 2021 Solicitation Webinar
Webinar held: March 2, 2021, 2 p.m. ET
Webinar presenters will discuss the purpose and goals of this funding opportunity.
Access the Presentation
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Safeguarding Correctional Facilities and Public Safety by Addressing Contraband Cellphones Program
Webinar held: February 25, 2021, 1 p.m. ET
Webinar presenters will discuss the purpose and goals of this funding opportunity; review eligibility requirements and deliverables; and address frequently asked questions.
Watch the Recording | Access the Presentation | Read the Transcript
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Funding Opportunities for Your Community in 2021: An Overview of What’s Ahead
In this webinar, attendees will learn the primary initiatives BJA plans to fund in 2021, eligibility requirements, and estimated funding amounts.
Watch the Recording | Access the Presentation | Read the Transcript
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The Federal Funding Process: The First Steps to Applying, How to Prepare Now, and Other Considerations
In this webinar, attendees will learn what registrations are necessary to apply, how to navigate Grants.gov and JustGrants, and what resources are available for applicants, such as the Office of Justice Programs’ Funding Resource Center.
Watch the Recording | Access the Presentation | Read the Transcript
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JustGrants and ASAP: OJP's New Grant Management Systems
During this virtual meeting with the Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations, BJA shared information about the new grants management and payment systems.
Watch the Recording | Access the Presentation | Read the Transcript
In FY 2021, applications will be submitted to the Department of Justice in a new two-step process.
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Step 1: Applicants will submit a SF-424 and a SF-LLL in Grants.gov.
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Step 2: Applicants will be invited to submit the full application including attachments in JustGrants.
For more information on application submission training resources, visit the JustGrants Application Submission training resources page. A new DOJ Application Submission Checklist is now available to support applicants in submitting their grant application this year.
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