Deadline: 12 February 2020

Applications are now open for “Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (Campus Program)” to encourage a comprehensive coordinated community approach that enhances victim safety, provides services and support for victims, and supports efforts to hold offenders accountable.

The funding supports activities that develop and strengthen trauma-informed victim services and strategies to prevent, investigate, and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.

Priority Areas

• Reduce violent crime against women and promote victim safety through investing in law enforcement, increasing prosecution, and promoting effective prevention.
  • To qualify for this OVW priority area, applicants must propose at least one of the following activities:
    • Collaborate with local law enforcement agencies and/or local criminal justice agencies to incorporate lethality assessments and protocols into their coordinated response strategies and ongoing training.
    • Create protocols for how the coordinated community response (CCR) team and existing campus behavioral and crisis intervention teams can collaborate to more readily identify repeat offenders and offenders at high risk for committing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
    • Partner with a local prosecutor’s office to develop strategies that will increase the prosecution of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
• Increase efforts to combat stalking.
  • To qualify for this OVW priority area, applicants must ensure that 50% or more of proposed grant activities primarily address stalking. Funding can support prevention programs, response protocols, and specialized training.
• Address the specific challenges that rural communities face in responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
  • To qualify for this OVW priority, applicants must describe what makes the institution’s geographic service area rural (using U.S. Census or other appropriate government data) and how isolated the area is from needed services.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $20,000,000
• Award Ceiling: $750,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Private institutions of higher education
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=323060