BJA FY25 Invited to Apply- Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY24 TTA) | O BJA 2025 172302

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The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), under the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, is offering a continuation cooperative agreement opportunity titled "BJA FY25 Invited to Apply - Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY24 TTA)" (Opportunity Number: O-BJA-2025-172302; CFDA: 16.045). The central purpose is to prevent and reduce violent crime by strengthening comprehensive, evidence-based, community-based violence intervention and prevention strategies, especially those aimed at issues like gun and gang violence. The approach emphasized in the notice is partnership-driven: effective efforts are expected to bring together community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals and health partners, researchers, and other local stakeholders who can collectively address the causes and immediate drivers of violence.

This particular notice is aimed at expanding and refining the national capacity to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) connected to community violence intervention (CVI). Rather than serving as a broad open competition for new CVI implementation sites, it is an invited-to-apply continuation opportunity tied to prior FY 2024 TTA providers. The intent is to deepen expertise and operational support in several specific areas that BJA considers critical for successful CVI work. Those focus areas include (1) TTA network support and coordination, meaning the ability to organize and align a broader ecosystem of assistance providers and resources; (2) law enforcement engagement with CVI programs, reflecting the practical need for productive, well-defined collaboration between community-based violence reduction approaches and policing entities; and (3) strategic communications, which typically covers how programs communicate with community members, partners, and the public in ways that build credibility, reduce misinformation, and support program uptake and sustainability.

In addition to the invited FY 2024 TTA providers, the NOFO also identifies a single intermediary organization, the Medical College of Wisconsin, associated with Category 4 of the FY 2024 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention Initiative. In this role, the intermediary is expected to strengthen CVI organizations by acting as a fiscal agent and by running a structured support-and-subaward model. Practically, this means the intermediary will identify up to five community-based organizations (CBOs), provide them with intensive TTA, oversee performance and compliance, and administer subawards over the life of the project. This design signals that BJA is not only funding advice and training in the abstract, but also building a channel through which capable local CBOs can receive hands-on support paired with funding and accountability.

The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which generally implies closer involvement from the federal funder than a standard grant, often including ongoing collaboration, shared planning, and federal input on key deliverables or milestones. The opportunity lists an award ceiling of $1,841,359 and anticipates making four awards. The original application closing date is January 13, 2025, and the opportunity was created on January 3, 2025. Eligible applicant types are broad and include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education in the nonprofit category listed), for-profit organizations other than small businesses, and small businesses. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as targeted continuation funding meant to reinforce the national CVI support infrastructure by sharpening TTA capabilities, improving cross-sector collaboration (including with law enforcement), and boosting the capacity of selected community-based organizations through an intermediary-led subaward and oversight model.

• The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY25 Invited to Apply- Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY24 TTA)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.045.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-03.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-13. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,841,359.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.

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