Description
This page provides access to past funding opportunities from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
Use the search filters below to help you find specific opportunities. From the results, select an opportunity title to view details about the opportunity as well as any resulting awards made through the opportunity.
If you are looking for current opportunities available from BJA, see the Available Funding page.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – State and Local Law Enforcement Support to U.S. Military Installations
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This opportunity is open to specific organizations (see the Eligible Applicants section of the solicitation for details).
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Administrative Funding Adjustments to BJA Previously Funded Awards
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This opportunity is open to those who received an invitation.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Continuation of BJA Previously Funded Awards
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Through this opportunity, BJA is inviting applicants who received an official request from BJA to apply for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award.
FY 2021 Restrictive Housing Reform Implementation Assistance Program
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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.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Presidential Nominating Conventions 2
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This opportunity is to support designated host cities by ensuring safe and secure environments across a variety of presidential nominating convention-related activities.
FY 2021 Collaborative Crisis Response Training Program
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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.
FY 2021 Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program
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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.
FY 2021 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement and Prosecution
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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.
FY 2021 Visiting Fellows Program
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This program brings talent and expertise from the field to BJA to inform policy and practice and create new tools for the field that disseminate knowledge of effective and innovative approaches to priority criminal justice issues.
FY 2021 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - Local Solicitation
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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.
FY 2020 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
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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.
FY 2021 Internet of Things National Training and Technical Assistance Program
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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).
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Continuation of BJA Previously Funded Awards
Date Posted
Closing Date
Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance is inviting applicants who received an official request from BJA to apply for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award.
FY 2021 Collaborative Approaches toward Preventing and Addressing Hate Crime — Demonstration Projects
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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.
FY 2021 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
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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.
FY 2021 Child-friendly Family Visiting Spaces in Jails and Prisons Program
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This program will fund projects to construct, renovate, or upgrade child-friendly family visiting spaces in correctional facilities.
FY 2021 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies
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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.
FY 2021 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-level Training and Technical Assistance Program
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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.
FY 2021 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Training and Technical Assistance Program
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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.
FY 2021 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Provider
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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.
FY 2021 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative for Law Enforcement Agencies
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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.
FY 2021 National Ashanti Alert Network Training and Technical Assistance Program
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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.
FY 2021 Smart Policing Initiative
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The Smart Policing Initiative provides funding to enable police agencies to effectively use evidence-based practices, data, and technology.
FY 2021 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Responses
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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.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Reallocation Funds
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This opportunity will provide funding to supply information, support, and assistance to state, local, and tribal correctional agencies and facilities to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and sexual harassment and implement the National Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards.