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STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program is sponsored by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). This formula grant program is awarded to states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands to enhance the capacity of local communities to develop and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat violent crimes against women and to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Funds are then allocated to law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim services (including culturally specific community-based organizations). Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows totaling $175.85 million in 2025 across 56 awards. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program are due July 14, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program is funded by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in District of Columbia. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Start with the full solicitation document linked on this page — it contains the submission instructions and required forms.
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Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Program is sponsored by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). The LAV Program funds comprehensive, direct legal services for adult and youth victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or violence.
Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) Program is sponsored by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). The ICJR Program encourages partnerships among state, local, and Tribal governments, courts, victim service providers, coalitions, and rape crisis centers to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking as serious crimes and to seek safety and autonomy for victims.
OJJDP FY24 National Mentoring Programs is sponsored by U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This program aims to support national mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement.
The SCI Youth Grant Pitch Contest is a competitive program from Social Capital Inc. that funds youth-led community improvement projects in Greater Boston. Teams of high school students in grades 9 through 12 residing in Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, or Suffolk counties develop project ideas through coaching from local professionals, then pitch their proposals to a live panel of judges. Winning teams receive $1,000 to $2,000 in grant funding to execute their community-strengthening visions. The program builds career skills including public speaking, project management, and team collaboration, while cultivating cross-socioeconomic connections among peers and mentors throughout the region.
The Justice Department's new Model Cities Initiative will hand 2 to 4 American cities roughly $300 million in 36-month cooperative agreements to rebuild public safety from the ground up. Applications are due September 1, 2026. The catch that will decide who wins: this is not a police grant, a prosecutor grant, or a behavioral-health grant. It is a single citywide proposal that has to braid all of them together. Here is who is eligible, what the money actually funds, and how a mayor's office should build a proposal that survives DOJ review.
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Read articleOn June 11, 2026, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled that the EPA's February 2025 termination of the $2.8 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program — created by Section 60201 of the Inflation Reduction Act — was arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful. The ruling voids the termination but does not order the EPA to resume the program, leaving the September 30, 2026 statutory deadline as the binding constraint. For the 116 grantees and the coalition of nonprofits, cities, and tribal partners that were already in award negotiations, the next 105 days will determine whether the program survives in any operational form or migrates entirely to the Court of Federal Claims as a damages action.
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