OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative | O OVW 2024 171918

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative 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) and listed under CFDA 16.526. It is offered through cooperative agreements, which typically means OVW expects an active, ongoing partnership with awardees in shaping deliverables, coordinating national efforts, and ensuring the training and technical assistance (TTA) work aligns closely with OVW priorities and the needs of OVW-funded programs.

The core goal of the initiative is to provide direct, practical training and technical assistance to current and prospective OVW grantees and subgrantees so they can implement OVW-funded projects effectively and in line with grant requirements and best practices. The program is focused on strengthening the overall capacity of professionals and organizations nationwide that respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. In plain terms, OVW is investing in organizations that can help the field do better work through skill-building, problem-solving support, and guidance that improves how funded projects operate day to day, not just through one-time trainings but through sustained technical support as challenges arise.

A major emphasis of the initiative is cross-system improvement and collaboration. OVW specifically highlights building the capacity of both civil and criminal justice system professionals as well as victim service providers, with an additional push to foster partnerships among organizations that have not traditionally worked together. That can include bridging gaps between victim advocacy organizations and justice system agencies, improving coordinated community responses, and spreading approaches that increase victim safety and offender accountability while strengthening trauma-informed, culturally responsive services.

Eligibility is primarily aimed at national, tribal, statewide, or other nonprofit organizations that can demonstrate the ability to deliver training and technical assistance at a national level to OVW recipients and subrecipients across U.S. states and territories. While the opportunity lists many eligible applicant types in the government-wide eligibility categories (including state, county, and local governments; tribal governments and tribal organizations; public housing authorities; and institutions of higher education), the narrative makes clear that OVW generally expects applicants to be organizations positioned to deliver national-scale TTA. OVW notes that it may, in rare cases, fund entities like universities, government agencies (for example, law enforcement agencies, prosecutor offices, or probation departments), or local nonprofits, but those applicants must provide a detailed record of successfully delivering TTA to a national audience and must clearly justify why they are appropriate for this national role.

Key opportunity details include an application closing date of March 7, 2024, an award ceiling of $2,100,000, and an estimated 62 awards. The funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, and the awarding agency is the Office on Violence Against Women. OVW also points applicants to related program information and performance measurement resources, including OVW grant program descriptions, the Measuring Effectiveness Initiative performance measures, and OVW reports to Congress on the effectiveness of VAWA-funded programs. These references signal that funded TTA providers are expected to align their work with OVW program goals and to support measurable improvements in the effectiveness and implementation quality of OVW-funded projects.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative" 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 2024-01-11.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-03-07. (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 $2,100,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 62 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), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, 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, Unrestricted.

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