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 solicitations. From the results, select a solicitation title to view details about the opportunity as well as any resulting awards.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance (EFLEA) Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
Closing Date
BJA is seeking applications for funding the law enforcement emergency experienced by the city of Nashville on December 25, 2020.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Presidential Nominating Conventions
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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This opportunity provides funding for law enforcement activities associated with the presidential nominating conventions.
FY 2020 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program Local Formula Solicitation
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 solicitation.
FY 2020 Law Enforcement Training & Technical Assistance Response Center
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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BJA is seeking applications to fund a training and technical assistance provider that will provide law enforcement agencies with information and expertise via a dedicated response center.
FY 2020 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program (Formula)
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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.
FY 2020 State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Information Sharing Technical Assistance Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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This program will be used to support the standardization of information sharing practices.
FY 2020 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program – Competitive
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence – Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting (SAFE-ITR) Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Innovations in Community-Based Crime Reduction Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative: Outcomes-based Contracting To Lower Recidivism and Address Substance Use Disorders Through Reentry and Housing Services
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Innovative Prosecution Solutions for Combating Violent Crime
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program (COSSAP)
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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Through this opportunity, BJA is seeking applications to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances of abuse.
FY 2020 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Solicitation
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program State Formula Solicitation
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 states as described in this solicitation. A separate solicitation will be issued for applications from units of local government.
FY 2020 Second Chance Act Evaluation Participation Support
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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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 Law Enforcement National Initiative for Improving Investigations: Supporting State and Local Crime Gun Intelligence Centers Training and Technical Assistance
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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The purpose of this solicitation is to call for applications for a provider that will deliver training and technical assistance to support Crime Gun Intelligence Center grantee sites.
FY 2020 Collaborative Mental Health and Anti-Recidivism Initiative
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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This program provides support to state criminal justice agencies to partner with mental health agencies and other service agencies to reduce crime and recidivism associated with people with mental illness.
FY 2020 National Center on Restorative Justice
Date Posted / Fiscal Year
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Through this opportunity, BJA seeks to fund an accredited university of higher education or an accredited law school to manage the National Center on Restorative Justice, with the overall purpose of educating and training the next generation of justice leaders.