BJA FY25 Invited to Apply- Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY22 Intermediaries) | O BJA 2025 172304

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The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), under the Office of Justice Programs, is offering a continuation funding opportunity titled "BJA FY25 Invited to Apply - Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY22 Intermediaries)." The purpose of this grant is to help communities prevent and reduce violent crime by expanding and strengthening comprehensive, evidence-informed, community-based violence intervention and prevention (CVI) approaches. The core idea is to support strategies that directly address serious violence, including gun and gang violence, through coordinated local partnerships that bring together the people and institutions most connected to both the problem and the solutions.

This opportunity is specifically aimed at intermediary organizations that were funded under the OJP FY22 CVIPI solicitation. Rather than funding individual neighborhood programs directly through this NOFO, BJA is using intermediaries to identify, support, and strengthen a second cohort of grassroots CVI organizations. In practice, that means the intermediary plays a hub role: helping smaller community-based groups access funding, build operational capacity, implement proven or promising models with fidelity, and connect their work to a broader ecosystem of services and stakeholders. The solicitation also emphasizes capturing and translating lessons learned, so that the successes, methods, tools, and implementation insights from this work can be turned into practical resources that other communities and organizations can use.

The programming BJA is trying to advance through CVIPI is rooted in partnerships across a community. The NOFO highlights collaboration among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals and health systems, researchers, and other local stakeholders. This reflects a public safety and public health blend: reducing violence not only through enforcement, but through prevention, intervention, outreach, victim support, and data-informed coordination. The emphasis on being "evidence-informed" signals that applicants are expected to ground their strategies in research, validated practices, or strong evaluation and learning frameworks, rather than relying on ad hoc activities.

Administratively, this is a continuation opportunity (Opportunity Category: Continuation) and uses a cooperative agreement as the funding instrument. A cooperative agreement typically means BJA anticipates having more hands-on involvement than in a standard formula or discretionary grant, such as providing substantial technical direction, requiring regular coordination, or setting shared milestones and deliverables. The opportunity is listed under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) 16.045, which corresponds to BJA programs.

Funding details show an award ceiling of $2,000,000, with an expected total of 3 awards. The original closing date is January 13, 2025, and the opportunity was created on January 3, 2025. While the NOFO summary does not spell out exact required activities line by line, the description makes clear that funds are intended to (1) support a second cohort of grassroots CVI organizations through intermediary-led subawards or structured support, and (2) develop resources that translate and scale what is working, which can include tools, guides, training materials, implementation playbooks, evaluation learning products, or other practice-oriented outputs.

Eligible applicant types are broad on paper and include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status, for-profit organizations (other than small businesses), and small businesses. However, the practical eligibility for this particular "invited to apply" continuation is effectively limited to intermediary entities that previously received FY22 CVIPI intermediary awards, since the NOFO explicitly seeks applications from that specific group.

Overall, this grant is designed to deepen and spread community-based violence intervention capacity by using experienced FY22 intermediaries to bring more grassroots organizations into the CVIPI network, reinforce evidence-informed implementation, and produce usable resources that help replicate effective violence reduction approaches in other places.

• 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 (FY22 Intermediaries)" 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 $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 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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