Grants & Funding
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Bureau of Justice Assistance
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) solicitation overviews provide key details about available funding opportunities as well as helpful information on how to apply. Following are solicitation overviews for BJA’s fiscal year 2024 opportunities that have been released so far: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/solicitation-overviews
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) funds research projects that are focused on the causes and/or control of violence, in any form and anywhere in the world.
The foundation offers two main grants:
The Emerging Scholars Award, for graduate students in the dissertation year, is a $25,000 award. The annual application submission period is November 1-February 1.
Decisions are announced in June.
The Distinguished Scholar Award, for those beyond the Ph.D. or equivalent degree, has a typical range of $15,000 to $45,000. The annual application period is May 1-August 1.
Decisions are announced in December.
Information on applying can be found on the foundation’s web site: www.hfg.org
National Institute of Justice
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation (NSF) is interested in receiving proposals to existing programs in any directorate across the Foundation that address fundamental research questions which might simultaneously advance activities related to research and education in forensic sciences. Supplent requests to existing awards may also be submitted.
U.S. Department of Justice
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released the Fiscal Year 2024 Grants Program Plan (DOJ Program Plan).
The DOJ Program Plan is a tool to help find potential funding opportunities (solicitations) from DOJ’s grant-making Components—the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). The Program Plan provides summary details of the funding opportunities each DOJ grant-making Component is expecting to release or has released in a particular fiscal year.
OJP’s six program offices— Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA); Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS); National Institute of Justice (NIJ); Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP); Office for Victims of Crime (OVC); and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART)—offer funding opportunities to support law enforcement and public safety activities in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions; to assist victims of crime; to provide training and technical assistance; to conduct research and collect national statistics; and to implement programs that improve the criminal, civil, and juvenile justice systems.
Please feel free to share the DOJ Program Plan widely. Also, please feel free to share the following resources on—
• Where to find DOJ funding opportunities and how to apply: JustGrants Resources Application Submission Training
• OJP’s Current Funding Opportunities
• How to become an OJP Peer Reviewer
• OJP Grant Awards site, which includes Success Stories, a Grantee Communications Toolkit, and an interactive map of OJP awards since 2021
In addition, potential applicants can sign up to be notified of OJP’s funding opportunities as they become available.
