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.
DEADLINES EXTENDED
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This program provides funding to states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories 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.
NEW Grants.gov deadline: June 29, 2021
NEW JustGrants deadline: July 2, 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.
NEW Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
NEW JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 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.
NEW Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
NEW JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 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.
NEW Grants.gov Deadline: July 6, 2021
NEW JustGrants Deadline: July 20, 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 29, 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 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 will identify up to four TTA providers to identify these types of crimes and provide training on how investigations and prosecution should be handled, as well as on how communities can be made aware of their vulnerability to fall victim to crimes involving the improper use of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Grants.gov Deadline: July 26, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: August 9, 2021
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Under this program, payments are made to states and units of local government that incur certain types of costs due to incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens during a specific 12-month reporting period.
Grants.gov Deadline: July 27, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: August 10, 2021
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The purpose of this solicitation is to fund national in-scope training and technical assistance efforts to support law enforcement, prosecution, and analysis within key criminal justice operations.
Grants.gov Deadline: August 2, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: August 16, 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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BJA seeks a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider and subject matter experts to help state correctional agencies implement changes to their trainings, policies, and practices to reduce their use of restrictive housing.
Grants.gov Deadline: August 10, 2021
JustGrants Deadline: August 24, 2021
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WEBINAR RECORDINGS
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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