OVC FY 17 Action Partnerships for National Membership, Professional Affiliation, and Community Service Organizations: Post-Conviction Services to Victims of Crime
Under the OVC FY 2017 Action Partnerships for National Membership, Professional Affiliation, and Community Service Organizations:
Post-Conviction Services to Victims of Crime solicitation, applicants will be asked to address one or a combination of the following areas:
Victim services throughout post-conviction involvement in criminal cases through appeal, parole, and psychiatric review hearings, etc.Unique issues in serving victims involved with cold cases (it is understood there may not be an actual conviction in these instances), capital cases, and/or wrongful conviction cases.Emerging issues such as retroactive legislation making necessary protocols for victim notification and other services and support.Provision of victim services through facilitated dialogue processes such as victim driven voluntary restorative justice programs and/or diversion programs or tribal peacemaking programs in lieu of conviction.Field-generated ideas or other issues related to post-conviction services not addressed above where applicants can effectively demonstrate a need or gap.
Post-Conviction Services to Victims of Crime solicitation, applicants will be asked to address one or a combination of the following areas:
Victim services throughout post-conviction involvement in criminal cases through appeal, parole, and psychiatric review hearings, etc.Unique issues in serving victims involved with cold cases (it is understood there may not be an actual conviction in these instances), capital cases, and/or wrongful conviction cases.Emerging issues such as retroactive legislation making necessary protocols for victim notification and other services and support.Provision of victim services through facilitated dialogue processes such as victim driven voluntary restorative justice programs and/or diversion programs or tribal peacemaking programs in lieu of conviction.Field-generated ideas or other issues related to post-conviction services not addressed above where applicants can effectively demonstrate a need or gap.
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Funding Opportunity
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are limited to national nonprofit (including tribal nonprofits) membership, professional affiliation, and community service organizations, and must demonstrate the financial and organizational capacity to manage this cooperative agreement.
Applicants must demonstrate a capability and strong desire to reach and serve victims of crime through a project that is national in scope.
The applicant organization must also be national, with the following exception: local or state chapters of groups based on professional membership or professional affiliation may apply, but must submit a memorandum of understanding (MOU) documenting a close partnership with their national office to achieve national capacity for the dissemination of this project.OVC welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant.
Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (“subgrantees").
The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire program.
Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered.
An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (“subgrantee”) in more than one application.OVC may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2017 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
Agency Email:
jasmine.daddario-fobian@usdoj.gov
Date Posted:
2017-05-24
Application Due Date:
2017-06-22
Archive Date:
2013-06-16
Social Entrepreneurship
Spotlight
Keeping Half the Profits Beats Non-profits for Social Impact
Melbourne social enterprise Who Gives A Crap sold nearly 3 million rolls of toilet paper in 2014/15 and gave half the proceeds to WaterAid Australia, but co-founder Simon Griffiths says the donation would have been less had the startup adopted a non-profit model when it launched two years ago.
Learn How to Identify and Avoid Grant Scams
