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O-OVW-2022-171116: OVW Fiscal Year 2022 STOP Formula Grant Program Solicitation

Closed Closed June 15, 2022 Opportunity O-OVW-2022-171116 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$14.7 million
• Award floor$600,000
• Total funding$163 million
• Expected awards56
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to state and local governments.

• State governments
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible applicants are limited to: any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Specifically, only the designated state office, pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 90.11, may apply. For more information, see the Eligibility Information section of this solicitation.

More grants for state and local governments.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Violence Against Women Formula Grants awards averaged $2.9 million; this notice allows up to $14.7 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

This program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. §§ 10441, 10446-10451. The Services * Training * Officers * Prosecutors (STOP) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program (STOP Formula Grant Program) (CFDA 16.588). The STOP Formula Grant Program supports communities, including American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages, in their efforts to develop and strengthen effective responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. For additional information about this program and related performance measures, including how awards contribute to the achievement of program goals and objectives, see: OVW grant program information: OVW Grants and Program Webpage. Program performance measures under the Measuring Effectiveness Initiative: VAWA Measuring Effectiveness Initiative webpage. Examples of successful projects in OVW's most recent report to Congress on the effectiveness of VAWA grant programs.

Category: Law, Justice and Legal Services.

Applying now

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