With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects to support the development of objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women (VAW) (including violence against elderly women and American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls), promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses.

For that reason, this solicitation seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics, including the crimes of domestic and family violence, homicide, intimate partner and dating violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking, along with the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies.

Objectives

This solicitation seeks to support the rigorous development of objective and independent knowledge and validated tools, and to disseminate them to stakeholders and policymakers to inform formulation of strategies and practices to reduce VAW. 

Deliverables

• Final Research Report: Any recipient of an award under this solicitation will be expected to submit a final research report. Additional information on the final research report requirement for the solicitation is posted on NIJ’s webpage.
• Required Data Sets and Associated Files and Documentation: Any recipient of an award under this solicitation will be expected to submit to the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) all data sets that result in whole or in part from the work funded by the award, along with associated files and any documentation necessary for future efforts by others to reproduce the project’s findings and/or to extend the scientific value of the data set through secondary analysis.
• In addition to these deliverables (and the required reports and data on performance measures), NIJ expects scholarly products to result from each award under this solicitation, taking the form of one or more published, peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles, and/or (if appropriate) law review journal articles, book chapter(s) or book(s) in the academic press, technological prototypes, patented inventions, or similar scientific products. NIJ expects that there will be an equal effort to make the research findings accessible to practitioner and policymaker audiences.

Priority Areas

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, NIJ is interested in research responding to the following two priority areas:

• evaluation research on VAW programs, models, practices and
• VAW research

OJP Policy Priority Areas

In FY 2021 and in addition to executing any program-specific prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to applications as follows:

• Applications that address specific challenges that rural communities face.
• Applications that demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to benefit from the requested grant reside in high-poverty areas or persistent-poverty counties.
• Applications that offer enhancements to public safety in economically distressed communities (Qualified Opportunity Zones).

Funding Information

• Anticipated Number of Awards: 6
• Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $600,000.00
• Period of Performance Start Date: 1/1/22 12:00 AM
• Period of Performance Duration (Months): 60
• Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation $2,500,000.00
• Maximum dollar amount for each award: The recent median NIJ grant award amount is approximately $600,000.
• Applicants are encouraged to propose budgets that match the research activities proposed.

Eligible Applicants

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• State governments
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• County governments
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
• City or township governments
• Small businesses
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Independent school districts
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Private institutions of higher education

For more information, visit Grants.gov.