Description
The funding opportunities listed below have been temporarily removed from the JustGrants and Grants.gov websites. The solicitations are being revised to align with current Administration priorities and will be reposted as soon as possible.
- Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
- State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)
As funding opportunities become available from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), they will be included below. Subscribe to NewsFromBJA to receive funding announcements.
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FY 2021 John R. Justice (JRJ) Program
Closing Date
This program provides student loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to extended service in those roles.
FY 2021 Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations and Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
This program provides support to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecutors in their investigation and prosecution of cold case murders associated with civil rights violations.
FY 2021 Economic, High-Technology, White Collar, and Internet Crime Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Smart Probation: Innovations in Supervision Initiative
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program Training and Technical Assistance Program - Logistics
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program
Closing Date
This program provides funding to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances of abuse.
FY 2021 Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Safeguarding Correctional Facilities and Public Safety by Addressing Contraband Cellphones Program
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence – Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting
Closing Date
Funding through this program is used to implement an evidence management program to inventory, track, and report untested and unsubmitted sexual assault kits.
FY 2021 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Project Safe Neighborhoods
Closing Date
This program is designed to create and foster safer communities through a sustained reduction in violent crime.
FY 2021 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA
Closing Date
This program increases the capacity of state and local prosecution offices to address violent crime cold cases.
FY 2021 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Second Chance Act: Adult Reentry Education, Employment, Treatment and Recovery Program
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Swift, Certain, and Fair Supervision Program: Applying the Principles Behind Project HOPE
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula
Closing Date
This solicitation is for State Administering Agencies to apply for formula funds available through the Coverdell Program.
FY 2021 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Crime by Improving Justice System Performance
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Collaborative Approaches toward Preventing and Addressing Hate Crime — Demonstration Projects
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
Closing Date
This program provides funding to conduct outreach and offer training on hate crimes, as well as investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
FY 2021 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 The HOPE Institute: Applying the Principles of Swiftness, Certainty, and Fairness
Closing Date
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.
FY 2021 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-level Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
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.
Additional Opportunity
FY 2021 Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP)
Deadline: 6:00 p.m. ET, June 14, 2021
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.