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FY25 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation

Opportunity ID
O-BJA-2025-172330
Solicitation Status
Open
Fiscal Year
2025
Closing Date
Posting Date
Solicitation Type
Competitive
Grants.gov Deadline
April 10, 2025, 11:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline
April 17, 2025, 8:59 pm Eastern
Description

This funding opportunity seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes. The Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to accomplish this by promoting collaborations with the field to identify, define, and respond to emerging or chronic crime problems or justice system challenges.

Opportunity Categories:

  • Category 1: State, local, or tribal innovations (with a research partnership)
  • Category 2: National or regional strategies to advance or translate knowledge

Eligible Applicants:

  • Category 1:
    • Government Entities
      • State governments
      • County governments
      • City or township governments
      • Special district governments and other units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state
      • Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
    • Educational Organizations
      • Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
      • Private institutions of higher education
    • Public Housing Organizations
      • Public housing authorities
      • Indian housing authorities
    • Nonprofit Organizations
      • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (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
    • For-Profit Organizations
      • Organizations other than small businesses
      • Small businesses
  • Category 2:
    • Educational Organizations
      • Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
      • Private institutions of higher education
    • Public Housing Organizations
      • Public housing authorities
      • Indian housing authorities
    • Nonprofit Organizations
      • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (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
    • For-Profit Organizations
      • Organizations other than small businesses
      • Small businesses

See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for additional details and directions on how to apply.

Date Created: January 14, 2025