Description
When available, BJA funding opportunities will be listed on this page. Review the provided solicitation for specific application instructions.
FY 2020 Second Chance Act Evaluation Participation Support
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Through this opportunity, BJA seeks applicants to participate in NIJ’s legislatively mandated evaluation of the Second Chance Act Grant Program.
FY 2020 Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program
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The Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) Program will provide funding to assist eligible states, local units of government, and tribes in preventing, preparing for, and responding to the coronavirus.
FY 2020 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program
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Through this opportunity, BJA is seeking applications to implement and enhance drug court services, to include coordination, management of drug court participants, and recovery support services.
FY 2020 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Solicitation
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Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is designed to create and foster safer neighborhoods through a sustained reduction in violent crime. The program's effectiveness depends upon the ongoing coordination, cooperation, and partnerships of local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies working together with the communities they serve.
FY 2020 Innovative Prosecution Solutions for Combating Violent Crime
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The purpose of this program is to support prosecutors’ offices to reduce caseloads, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of prosecutors’ processes and procedures, and provide modern technology to better manage and track cases.
FY 2020 Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program
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BJA’s STOP School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence.
FY 2020 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative: Outcomes-based Contracting To Lower Recidivism and Address Substance Use Disorders Through Reentry and Housing Services
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Funding through this program can be used to enhance or implement 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.
FY 2020 Innovations in Community-Based Crime Reduction Program
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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.
FY 2020 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
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This program will 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.
FY 2020 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence – Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting (SAFE-ITR) Program
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This program will fund states and units of local government to implement an evidence management program to inventory, track, and report untested and unsubmitted sexual assault kits.
FY 2020 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program
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Funding through this program is designed to increase the supply of forensic pathologists and support the enhancement of medicolegal death investigations nationwide.
FY 2020 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA
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This program provides funds to: (1) prosecute violent crime cold cases and (2) decrease the number of violent crime cold cases awaiting prosecution.
FY 2020 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program – Competitive
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This program seeks to improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government.
FY 2020 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program – Formula
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This program seeks to improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government.
Additional Funding
Applications for FY 2020 Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program funds are now being accepted. Applications must be submitted online by 6 p.m. ET on June 8, 2020.