Social Science & Law

OVC FY25 Technology to Support Services for Victims of Crime - O-OVC-2025-172430

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Limiting Language 
An applicant may submit only one application in response to the NOFO and an applicant can only apply to one category in their application. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient in more than one application. Applications under which two or more entities (project partners) would carry out the federal award will be considered. However, only one entity may be the applicant for the NOFO; any others must be proposed as subrecipients. See the Application Resource Guide for additional information on subawards.

Executive Summary 
This funding opportunity seeks to develop, expand, and strengthen victim service programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories. Please see the Eligible Applicants section for the eligibility criteria.  

• Category 1: Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $600,000) Awards under this category will be made to support innovative strategies to create, expand, or enhance the use of technology by victim service organizations to improve interaction with crime victims, elevate service quality, and ensure accessibility and responsiveness.    

• Category 2: Building State Technology Capacity to Serve Victims of Crime (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to state administering agencies (SAAs) to support statewide technology programs to enhance victims’ access to services, foster innovation and efficiency in the provision of services, and improve the quality of services. 

OJP is committed to advancing work that furthers DOJ’s mission to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights. OJP provides federal leadership, funding, and other critical resources to directly support law enforcement, combat violent crime, protect American children, provide services to American crime victims, and address public safety challenges, including human trafficking and the opioid crisis. 

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8/15/2025

OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Crime - O-OVC-2025-172427

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Limiting Language
An applicant may submit only one application in response to the NOFO and an applicant can only apply to one category in their application. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient in more than one application. 

Executive Summary
This NOFO supports the development, expansion and strengthening of victim service programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories. Award recipients will increase the quality and quantity of victim services in the following categories:  

• Category 1: Services to Child and Youth Victims (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve child and youth victims of crime. Child and youth victims are persons who were age 17 or younger when the victimization took place. 

• Category 2: Services to Victims of Elder Abuse, Fraud, and Exploitation (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve victims of elder fraud, abuse, and exploitation. For purposes of this NOFO, victims of elder fraud, abuse, and exploitation are persons who were age 55 or older when the victimization took place. 

• Category 3: Services to Other Crime Victims (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve other victims of crimes (not child or elder victimization), excluding human trafficking. 

Victim services may include, but are not limited to, emergency assistance, case management, shelter and housing, medical and dental care, victim advocacy, transportation, childcare, legal services, and employment assistance. Entities may only submit one application. Entities may only apply to one category in their application. Please see the Eligible Applicants section for the eligibility criteria. OJP is committed to advancing work that furthers DOJ’s mission to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.

OJP provides federal leadership, funding, and other critical resources to directly support law enforcement, combat violent crime, protect American children, provide services to American crime victims, and address public safety challenges, including human trafficking and the opioid crisis. 

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8/15/2025

OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Technology-Facilitated Abuse - O-OVC-2025-172431

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Limiting Language
An applicant may submit only one application in response to the NOFO. An entity may be proposed as a subrecipient in more than one application. Applications under which two or more entities (project partners) would carry out the federal award will be considered. However, only one entity may be the applicant for the NOFO; any others must be proposed as subrecipients. See the Application Resource Guide for additional information on subawards. 

Executive Summary 
This NOFO will support services to victims of technology-facilitated abuse, defined as the use of technology and the Internet to bully, harass, stalk, intimidate, or control a victim. Please see the Eligible Applicants section for the eligibility criteria.  OJP is committed to advancing work that furthers DOJ’s mission to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights. OJP provides federal leadership, funding, and other critical resources to directly support law enforcement, combat violent crime, protect American children, provide services to American crime victims, and address public safety challenges, including human trafficking and the opioid crisis. 

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8/15/2025

OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs Initiative - O-OVW-2025-172315

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Limiting Langauge: 
OVW will consider only one application for this program per institution. If an applicant submits multiple versions of the same application, OVW will review only the most recent system-validated version submitted before the deadline. 

Executive Summary:
The Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs,  and TCUs Initiative (Campus Set Aside Initiative) uses set aside funding (34 U.S.C. § 20125) from the OVW Campus Program to support Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) in strengthening their institutional response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The Campus Set Aside Initiative will support activities focused on building the capacity of HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs to develop and implement strategies to prevent and address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking that meets the needs of its students, including effective response protocols and prevention programming.  

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External Deadline
9/9/2025

Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) - FY 2025

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Limiting Language
Each applicant, whether individually or jointly, may only submit one application for RCDI Funds under this Notice. This restriction does not preclude the applicant from providing Matching funds for other applications.

Summary
The Rural Housing Service (RHS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), announces the acceptance of applications under the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) program for fiscal year (FY) 2025. Approximately $5 million in funding is available for FY 2025. These grants will be made to qualified Intermediary organizations that will provide financial and Technical assistance to Recipients to develop their capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development that will support the community. Applicants are responsible for any expenses incurred in developing their applications.

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8/7/2025

Huo Family Foundation: 2025 Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People

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J. Stevens Aubrey (Communications) 

Summary
The Huo Family Foundation invites applications for special projects. These larger and longer-term research awards would allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. 

Proposals should be tackling key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behaviour and interactions, and mental health of children and young people.

Awarded research grants in this area can be held at colleges, universities and research institutes in the UK and in the US.

We are keen to support multi-disciplinary work. These teams may consist of several group leaders from one institution, or different institutions in the UK and the US. 

Eligibility 
PLEASE NOTE WE WILL CONSIDER ONLY ONE SPECIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL FROM EACH LEAD INSTITUTION. THE LEAD INSTITUTION IS THE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OR RESEARCH INSTITUTE WHERE THE LEAD APPLICANT IS LOCATED. 

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5/23/2025
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OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program

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Program Summary
The Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (Campus Program) provides funding for institutions of higher education to develop and strengthen effective security and investigation strategies to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus, develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving such crimes on campus, and develop and strengthen prevention education and awareness programs. 

Limit on Number of Applications
OVW will consider only one application for this program per institution. If an applicant submits multiple versions of the same application, OVW will review only the most recent system-validated version submitted before the deadline

 

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External Deadline
7/8/2025

Vitalyst Health - 2025 Arizona Justice Reinvestment Grants

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A. Granillo (Southwest Institute for Research on Women)

Eligibility 
Only one (1) application per organization/collaboration may be submitted. Fiscal sponsors may support multiple applications.


This grant is designed for organizations working on:

  1. Public and behavioral health initiatives for substance use prevention, treatment, and early intervention services.
  2. Restorative justice, jail diversion, workforce development, and mentoring services for economically disadvantaged individuals in communities disproportionately affected by higher arrest and incarceration rates.
  3. Addressing the root causes of crime, reducing drug-related arrests, and lowering the prison population.
  4. Developing technology and programs to restore civil rights and expunge criminal records.
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External Deadline
5/31/2025
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The Retirement Research Foundation: Foundation For Aging Research Grants

Limit: 1 LOI per department

V. Lai (Psychology) 

Eligibility
Organizations may submit only one Letter of Inquiry and corresponding proposal per grant cycle. Common exceptions include proposals submitted by separate departments of large universities. 


RRF funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network. Of particular interest are:

  • Interventional trials; translational studies; and health services and policy research
  • Projects that build on the investigator’s past studies
  • Proposals that include robust dissemination plans, if appropriate, to assure that findings reach audiences positioned to act on them
Funding Type
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External Deadline
5/1/2025

Strategic Prevention Framework - Partnerships for Success for Communities and Tribes

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B. Rooney (Public Health)

Eligibility 
A new applicant organization may submit no more than 2 applications; however, each application must focus on a different population of focus or a different geographic/catchment area(s).

Description
The SPF-PFS-Communities/Tribes program is intended to build prevention capacity throughout communities and tribes and to strengthen the capacity of local community prevention providers.

The purpose of this program is to:

  • Help prevent and reduce the initiation and progression of substance use and its related problems by supporting the development and delivery of community-based substance use prevention services that strengthen protective factors, reduce risk factors, build resilience, and promote well-being.
  • Expand and strengthen the capacity of state and local community prevention providers serving communities and tribes and implement evidence-based, evidence-informed, and community-defined evidence-based prevention strategies.
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Internal Deadline
External Deadline
3/18/2025