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O-OVW-2024-171938: OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Measuring Effectiveness Initiative

Closed Closed March 21, 2024 Opportunity O-OVW-2024-171938 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Office on Violence Against Women notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$4.1 million
• Award floor$4.1 million
• Total funding$4.1 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

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

This is a noncompetitive funding opportunity for which the only eligible applicant is the University of Southern Maine. The applicant was selected through a competitive process in FY 2023 for a five-year award and received funding for the initial 18 months of the project. This Invitation to Apply is to provide funding for the next 26 months of the project.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past OVW Research and Evaluation Program awards averaged $469,023; this notice allows up to $4.1 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (74% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Violence Against Women Act Measuring Effectiveness Initiative is categorized under the Research and Evaluation Initiative (Assistance Listing #16.026) and fulfills the purposes of the following statutes: 34 U.S.C. § 12291(b)(7), 34 U.S.C. § 10238, and 34 U.S.C. 12291(b)(11). The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), as amended, requires that grantees report on the effectiveness of their VAWA-funded programs to the Attorney General, who, in turn, must report to Congress every two years on the effectiveness of grant-funded activities (Pub. L. No. 106-386, § 1003, 114 Stat. 1464, 1491 (2000), codified at 34 U.S.C. § 10238). Some OVW grant programs also have specific reporting requirements as outlined in their respective authorizing legislation. In response to these requirements, OVW developed annual and semi-annual performance reporting forms for each OVW grant program that track grant-funded activities and incorporate measures tied to program objectives. Grantees funded by OVW report consistent quantitative data that can be aggregated to reflect the accomplishments within and across grant programs. The forms also collect narrative (i.e., qualitative) information on grantees’ goals, objectives, activities, accomplishments, and remaining areas of need. OVW uses the information collected through performance reports in different ways, including monitoring grant activities (individually and in aggregate across programs), identifying promising practices, meeting reporting obligations under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and subsequent legislation, reporting to Congress, responding to ad hoc data requests from within and outside government, and spotting training and technical assistance needs and promising practices. In FY 2022 – FY 2023, the University of Southern Maine (USM) was competitively selected to continue implementing the Measuring Effectiveness Initiative (MEI), which encompasses the data collection described above and involves providing training, technical assistance, and related resources to OVW grantees on performance reporting. USM received 18 months of initial funding in the amount of $2.6 million through a cooperative agreement for a five-year—or 60-month—project, to support project activities through June 30, 2024. The purpose of this Invitation to Apply is to provide USM with a supplemental award in the amount of $4,143,119 to carry out the next 26 months of the project (i.e., July 1, 2024 – August 31, 2026).

Category: Law, Justice and Legal Services.

Applying now

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