OVW Fiscal Year 2021 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative Solicitation | O OVW 2021 74002

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2021 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526) is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), authorized under 34 U.S.C. 12291(b)(11). The core aim of the program is to fund organizations that can deliver direct training and hands-on technical assistance to current and prospective OVW grant recipients and subrecipients, so they can plan, implement, manage, and sustain OVW-funded projects more effectively. In practical terms, the initiative is meant to improve how OVW-funded programs operate on the ground by helping grantees strengthen their skills, comply with requirements, adopt effective practices, and overcome common implementation challenges.

A central emphasis of the initiative is capacity building across both the civil and criminal justice systems and the victim services field. OVW is looking to expand the knowledge and effectiveness of professionals who respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, including law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, corrections, civil legal assistance providers, advocates, and community-based victim service organizations. Another major goal is to encourage and deepen partnerships, especially among agencies and organizations that do not traditionally work together, so coordinated responses to these crimes are more consistent, survivor-centered, and effective across jurisdictions.

The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which generally signals that OVW expects to have substantial involvement in the work after an award is made, such as collaboration on deliverables, coordination with OVW priorities, and ongoing communication about project activities and outcomes. The opportunity falls under the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity category. The solicitation was created on April 12, 2021, with an original closing date of May 27, 2021. OVW anticipated making around 70 awards, with an award ceiling of up to $2,000,000 per award.

Eligibility is broad and includes state, county, and city/township governments; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other tribal organizations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions in those nonprofit categories); and other entities as clarified in the solicitation’s additional eligibility information. This wide eligibility reflects the reality that training and technical assistance often comes from many different types of national, regional, and specialized providers, including nonprofits with deep subject-matter expertise, universities with research and training capacity, and governmental or tribal entities with operational experience.

Finally, OVW ties this initiative to its broader performance measurement and accountability framework. Applicants and eventual awardees are expected to align their work with OVW program goals and objectives and to support measurable improvements in grantee capacity and system responses. The solicitation points applicants to OVW’s program information and performance measurement resources, including the VAWA Measuring Effectiveness Initiative and examples of effective projects described in OVW’s biennial reporting on the effectiveness of VAWA grant programs. This framing makes clear that OVW is not only funding training events, but also investing in technical assistance that leads to demonstrable, sustained improvements in how communities prevent and respond to violence against women and related crimes.

• The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2021 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative Solicitation" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.526.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 12, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 27, 2021. (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 70 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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