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O-OVC-2021-96003: OVC FY 2021 Addressing Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting

Closed Closed June 15, 2021 Opportunity O-OVC-2021-96003 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: OVC and OVW FY 2026 Victim Services for Angel Families Program – Invited Notice of Funding Opportunity (O-OVC-2026-172807). Status: Closes November 16, 2026 (9 days left). It is in our archive of Office for Victims of Crime notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$300,000
• Total funding$1.8 million
• Expected awards6
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes and businesses.

For purposes of this solicitation, "state" means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, as of October 28, 2020, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient. For detailed information on this new certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO. All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee. Current OVC FGMC grantees who received funding from the OVC FY 2020 FGMC solicitation are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants awards averaged $506,630; this notice allows up to $300,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (76% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights, increases access to justice, supports crime victims, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. This program will support projects to build or enhance a community response to female genital mutilation and cutting (FGMC). Grantees will work to increase services, education, and community partner engagement to stop the victimization of girls through FGMC, at the community level.

Category: Income Security and Social Services.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, O-OVC-2026-172807, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.