Accelerating Innovative Mobility Challenge Grants (DOT)

• Published date: 16 April 2020
• Date: 16 April 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31037

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ April 16, 2020 Page 7

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Grants alert (cont.)

Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice

System (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile

Justice and Delinquency Prevention seeks applications

for the FY2020 Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile

Justice System announcement to reduce crime and

combat victimization.

Deadline: June 1, 2020.

Funds: $1.7 million for up to four awards of up to

$425,000. The maximum project period is three years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments.

Areas: DOJ said successful applicants will: develop

and implement direct service programs for girls involved

in the juvenile justice system to reduce reoffending;

enhance or expand existing prevention and early

intervention programs to meet the specic needs of

girls involved in the juvenile justice system; and develop,

expand or enhance targeted curricula for staff (i.e.,

probation, detention center staff, law enforcement,

judges) to ensure they have the skills necessary to

implement these programs for girls in the juvenile justice

system.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# OJJDP-2020-17412

Developing victim specialists to serve American

Indian/Alaska Native crime victims (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Office for Victims of

Crime seeks applications for the FY2020 Developing

Future Victim Specialists to Serve American Indian/

Alaska Native Victims of Crime announcement.

Deadline: May 26, 2020. The maximum project period is

three years.

Funds: $3.6 million total for up to eight awards of up to

$450,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations, nonprot organizations and Native

American tribal governments.

Areas: DOJ said successful applicants will demonstrate

the existence of a relationship between a tribal victim

service program and an organization, such as a

university program or tribal coalition, that will refer,

train and supervise individuals interested in paid victim

services internships or residencies in American Indian

and Alaska Native communities; identify victim service

program staffing needs, and determine how victim

service internships/residencies would address these

needs, the number of internships/residencies necessary

and job descriptions for the participants; develop a list

of selection criteria that participants must meet to be

selected as victim service interns/residents; determine

the program requirements a participant must meet to

successfully complete the program; and identify, recruit

and hire individuals that meet the necessary criteria.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# OVC-2020-17932

Eectiveness of the Second Chance Act Grant

Program: A phased evaluation approach (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s National Institute

of Justice seeks applications for the Assessing the

Effectiveness of the Second Chance Act (SCA) Grant

Program: A Phased Evaluation Approach announcement

to support an evaluation of the SCA grant program.

Deadline: May 26, 2020.

Funds: $1.5 million total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments.

Areas: DOJ said there are three phases to the award. In

Phase 1, applicants will conduct a formative evaluation

to determine if an outcome evaluation of the SCA site is

feasible. In Phase 2, the successful awardee will submit

an application for funding to support an evaluation of

the effectiveness of the SCA grant program. Phase 3 will

involve an implementation, process, outcome, cost and

impact evaluation of the SCA sites.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NIJ-2020-17170

Accelerating Innovative Mobility Challenge

Grants (DOT)

Scope: The Transportation Department’s Federal Transit

Administration seeks applications for the Accelerating

Innovative Mobility Challenge Grants announcement

to foster innovative transit technologies, practices and

solutions that incentivize travelers to choose public

transportation, promote economic development in

communities and enhance public/private partnerships to

improve personal mobility.

Deadline: May 18, 2020.

Funds: $11 million total for up to 40 awards.

Eligibility: State, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments.

Areas: DOT said funding supports projects that can

accelerate the development, implementation and

adoption of innovative technologies, practices and

service models to improve mobility and enhance the

rider experience, with a focus on innovative service

delivery models, creative nancing, novel partnerships

and integrated payment solutions.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FTA-2020-012-TRI-AIM

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