NOFO: Community-based approaches to prevent and address Hate Crime (US)

OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.

With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase victim reporting, and improve responses to hate crimes. The program is also designed to develop community-informed models for preventing and responding to hate speech and incidents, as well as facilitating reconciliation and community healing.

Goals

• Develop and enhance comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes, speech, and incidents that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase victim reporting, and improve prevention efforts and responses to hate crimes.
• Develop and enhance activities to de-escalate community tension, empower community efforts for conflict resolution, and strengthen community resiliency.

Objectives

• Invest in community-led initiatives that prevent hate crimes through conflict resolution, community empowerment, and education.
• Support programs that result in increased reporting of hate crimes to law enforcement or other trusted community institutions.
• Establish and disseminate a catalogue of various initiatives, efforts, and activities that have been implemented by communities to address hate crimes to promote replication.
• Develop pathways for more grassroots organizations to access federal grant funds to prevent and address hate crimes.
• Create a variety of ways to elevate the work and voices of community leaders and organizations that have implemented these programs (at conferences, in written materials, through social media or other media content, etc.).

Funding Categories

• Community-based Organizations
  • Expected Number of Awards: 11
  • Dollar Amount per Award: $400,000
  • Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2024
  • Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36 months
• National Civil Rights Organizations and Intermediary Organizations
  • Expected Number of Awards: 2
  • Dollar Amount per Award: $2,000,000
  • Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2024
  • Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36 months

Deliverables

• Through this program, BJA intends to deliver the following to the field:
  • A series of resources and real-life examples of community-led efforts to prevent and respond to hate crimes and hate incidents; and
  • Concrete examples of program activities or approaches that have demonstrated impacts on community perceptions of safety, identification of hate crimes and incidents, and/or community resiliency in the wake of hate incidents.

Eligibility Criteria

• Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Other: This includes community-based organizations and civil rights organizations that are tribal, non-profit, and academic.
• An applicant may submit more than one application, if each application proposes a different project in response to the solicitation. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.

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