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The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing and the Administration’s priority of Making America Safe Again by supporting the nation’s state, local, territorial and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Community Policing Development: Microgrants Program. Community Policing Development (CPD): Microgrants program funds are used to fund demonstration or pilot projects to be implemented by local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to increase their capacity to implement innovative or evidence-based projects that improve officer and public safety. These projects should offer creative ideas to advance crime fighting, increase organizational effectiveness, and promote community safety. The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing and the Administration’s priority of Making America Safe Again by supporting the nation’s state, local, territorial and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Community Policing Development: Microgrants Program. Community Policing Development (CPD): Microgrants program funds are used to fund demonstration or pilot projects to be implemented by local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to increase their capacity to implement innovative or evidence-based projects that improve officer and public safety. These projects should offer creative ideas to advance crime fighting, increase organizational effectiveness, and promote community safety. Applicants are invited to propose demonstration or pilot projects in one of eleven areas: -Preventing and investigating domestic terrorism -Violent crime enforcement and investigations -Gang violence enforcement and investigations -Detecting and investigating human trafficking -Investigating and interrupting child exploitation -Vagrancy and squatting -Immigration and border security -Investigating and interrupting opioid and drug markets -Officer recruitment, hiring, and retention -Unmanned aerial systems -Investigating and interrupting cybercrime The COPS Office encourages agencies to propose partnerships with other law enforcement entities through taskforces and other formal operational arrangements to address the chosen area of focus, as well as with relevant stakeholders. The COPS Office also encourages agencies to consider including evaluation components appropriate to the type of activities proposed. Applicants should explain in their application how their approach addresses a specific public safety need or gap in services. Applicants may submit multiple applications but must submit a separate application for each project. Any applicant that selects the incorrect category may not pass the basic minimum requirement phase of the review process. See the Eligible Applicants section for eligibility details. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the FY26 Community Policing Development: Microgrants Program NOFO materials, the terms “community policing” and “common sense policing” are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified. All awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and any modifications or additional requirements that may be imposed by law.
Funding Opportunity Number: O-COPS-2026-172559. Assistance Listing: 16.710. Funding Instrument: G. Category: LJL. Award Amount: Up to $200K per award.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants: State governments; County governments; City or township governments; Special district governments; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized); Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification). For technical assistance with submitting the SF-424, please call the Grants.gov customer service hotline at 800-518-4726, send questions via email to support@Grants.gov,or consult the Grants.gov Organization Applicant User Guide. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. For technical support with the Justice Grants System (JustGrants) application, please contact JustGrants Support at JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov or 833-872-5175. JustGrants Support operates Monday through Friday between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) and Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Training on JustGrants can also be found at https://justicegrants.usdoj.gov/training-resources. For programmatic assistance with the requirements of this program, please call the COPS Office Response Center at 800-421-6770 or send questions via email to AskCopsRC@usdoj.gov. The COPS Office Response Center operates Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, except on federal holidays. In addition, the COPS Office welcomes applicant feedback on this notice of funding opportunity, the application submission process, and the application review process. Provide feedback via email to AskCopsRC@usdoj.gov (Subject line: “FY26 PROGRAM NAME Feedback”). Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $200K per award. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for FY26 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants are due August 17, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Yes — FY26 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants is offered by Community Oriented Policing Services and this listing comes from Grants.gov, an official U.S. federal source. Federal applications generally require registrations (for example SAM.gov or an agency submission portal), so allow extra lead time.
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