OVC FY 2018 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program | OVC 2018 14763

Opportunity Information: Apply for OVC 2018 14763

The OVC FY 2018 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), designed to strengthen and expand services for victims of crime in tribal communities. Through this solicitation, OVC planned to make up to $110 million available to support a broad range of victim services, with the overall intent of helping tribes improve how victims are identified, supported, and connected to culturally appropriate and effective assistance. The program’s allowable activities were shaped in part by feedback from tribal leaders and other stakeholders, reflecting the specific victim service gaps and priorities that tribes have identified on the ground.

Eligible applicants include federally recognized Indian tribes (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), Alaska Native villages, and tribal consortia made up of two or more federally recognized tribes. The solicitation also allows an organization to apply if it is acting as the authorized designee of a federally recognized tribe. The solicitation uses the standard federal definition of “Indian tribe,” which covers tribes, bands, nations, and other organized Native communities, including Alaska Native entities recognized for federal Indian programs and services. A key eligibility and compliance point is that applications from entities that do not meet these eligibility rules are screened out early and removed from consideration.

A notable feature of this opportunity is its streamlined two-phase application process, created specifically for this unique tribal set-aside program. OVC scheduled a Phase 1 pre-application webinar for June 28, 2018 (2:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to walk potential applicants through requirements and expectations. Phase 1 applications were due August 6, 2018, by 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. While all applicants ultimately must be able to document legal authority from the tribe (such as a tribal resolution or similar satisfactory proof), tribal designees have an added requirement: they must submit that tribal authorization documentation as part of the Phase 1 application, rather than later.

The solicitation emphasizes that each applicant may submit only one application. At the same time, that single application can include multiple projects or service components, allowing tribes to bundle a set of coordinated victim service improvements under one request. The example provided in the solicitation illustrates how an applicant might combine staffing and direct service costs across different parts of a victim services system, such as hiring a victim advocate within a police department, hiring a child forensic interviewer for a child advocacy center, and covering the cost of sexual assault medical forensic examinations for adult victims. This flexibility is intended to let tribes design funding requests around local needs rather than forcing a narrow, one-size-fits-all program model.

Administratively, the opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number OVC-2018-14763 and CFDA 16.841, and it falls within activity areas tied to income security and social services as well as law, justice, and legal services. The grant is offered by OVC as the awarding agency, with an indicated award ceiling of $720,000 in the listing information. The solicitation was created on June 22, 2018, and the original closing date for Phase 1 was August 6, 2018. Overall, the opportunity is positioned as a major federal investment in tribal victim services, combining substantial available funding with a simplified application approach and the ability for tribes to propose multiple, complementary victim service projects in a single submission.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services, law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY 2018 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.841.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2018-06-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-08-06. (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 $720,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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