Strategies for Policing Innovation (DOJ)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31002
• Published date: 02 April 2020
• Date: 02 April 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Strategies for Policing Innovation (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance seeks applications for the Strategies for

Policing Innovation announcement by assisting state,

local and tribal jurisdictions in reducing crime and

improving the functioning of the criminal justice system,

specically through support for innovative and evidence-

based policing practices, more effective information

sharing and multiagency collaboration.

Deadline: May 12, 2020.

Funds: $7 million total for up to 10 awards of up to

$700,000. The maximum project period is three years.

Eligibility: State, local and Native American tribal

governments and tribal consortia, and governmental

nonlaw enforcement agencies acting as their agents.

Areas: DOJ said to support the crime-reduction

problem identied by the applicant, the program funds

the following: new personnel, overtime, software and/

or hardware technology purchases, and data analysis

support.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BJA-2020-17028

Innovations in Community-Based Crime

Reduction Program (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance seeks applications for the Innovations

in Community-Based Crime Reduction Program

announcement to reduce serious and violent crime.

Deadline: June 11, 2020.

Funds: $9 million total for awards of up to $1 million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments.

Areas: DOJ said this program focuses on high-crime

communities with concentrated distress and hot spots of

crime and directly supports the department’s priorities to

reduce violent crime (sometimes associated with gang

activity), assist communities struggling with drug abuse

and support law enforcement officers by integrating

officers and enforcement strategies into community-

based crime-reduction efforts.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BJA-2020-17118

Crime Gun Intelligence Centers (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance, in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, seeks applications

for the FY2020 Crime Gun Intelligence Centers to

support multidisciplinary teams to identify perpetrators,

criminal activity, and sources of crime guns for

immediate disruption, investigation and prosecution.

Deadline: May 11, 2020.

Funds: $6 million total for up to seven awards of up to

$700,000.

Eligibility: State, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments.

Areas: DOJ said priority consideration will be given to

jurisdictions with high volumes of nonfatal shootings,

high volumes of rearms-related homicides, Project

Guardian participants and demonstrated strong

partnerships, including tribes and sheriff’s offices.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BJA-2020-17017

Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist

Victims of Crime (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Office for Victims of

Crime seeks applications for the FY2020 Advancing

the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime

announcement.

Deadline: May 12, 2020.

Funds: $4.5 million total for up to three awards of up to

$1.5 million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations, nonprot organizations and Native

American tribal governments.

Areas: DOJ said deliverables include: direct service

provision to crime victims, using trauma-informed

approaches that protect the safety and condentiality

of victims; culturally and linguistically appropriate

community outreach events and materials; resources

for service providers and criminal justice stakeholders;

and a nal report describing project activities, promising

practices, challenges encountered and solutions to

address those challenges in order to improve outcomes

for crime victims.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# OVC-2020-18094

Investigator Initiated Extended Clinical Trial

(NIAID/NIA)

Scope: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

Diseases and the National Institute on Aging seek

applications for the Investigator Initiated Extended

Clinical Trial announcement for implementation of

investigator-initiated clinical trials requiring an extended

project period of six or seven years.

Deadline: Letters of Intent are due 30 days prior to the

application due date; proposals are due May 13, 2020;

Sept. 13, 2020; and Jan. 13, 2021.

Funds: The number of awards depends on

appropriations and the submission of a sufficient

number of quality applications.

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