OJJDP FY 17 National Gang Center
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) will award a cooperative agreement to continue the activities of the National Gang Center.
The Center provides training and technical assistance to OJP-funded programs and communities across the country, tracks current research and trends on gangs, and maintains a database of comprehensive information on the development and implementation of effective gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies.
Many of these strategies and effective programs are on the Centerâs Strategic Planning Tool that is designed to help communities assess and address local gang problems.
The Center provides training and technical assistance to OJP-funded programs and communities across the country, tracks current research and trends on gangs, and maintains a database of comprehensive information on the development and implementation of effective gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies.
Many of these strategies and effective programs are on the Centerâs Strategic Planning Tool that is designed to help communities assess and address local gang problems.
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Gang-Free Schools and Communities_Community-Based Gang Intervention
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OJJDP, in partnership with BJA, will award a cooperative agreement to continue the activities of the National Gang Center, which provides training and technical assistance to OJP-funded programs and communities across the country. The National Gang C
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations, including tribal nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
For-profit organizations (as well as other recipients) must forgo any profit or management fee.
OJJDP 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 National Gang Center.
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.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2017/NGC.pdf
Contact:
For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 8005184726 or 6065455035, or via email to support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. For assistance
Agency Email Description:
Agency Email:
grants@ncjrs.gov
Date Posted:
2016-11-18
Application Due Date:
2017-01-25
Archive Date:
2017-01-19
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