Cooperative Agreement 2016DDBXK001

This Project Grant award under the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CFDA 93.276), provides $250,000.00 to Peer Coalition Inc., a non-profit organization in Rockland County, New York. The grant supports Peer Coalition's efforts to build a diverse community coalition and implement evidence-based strategies to prevent and reduce youth substance use, particularly involving...

The Weber County Community Trust and Legitimacy Project received a $125,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program. The grant falls under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program, which provides funding to law enforcement agencies to implement community policing strategies and develop partnerships between law enforcement and the communities they serve to collaboratively address public...

The City and County of San Francisco Police Department received a $125,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program on September 1, 2021 to complete the San Francisco, CA Community Trust and Legitimacy Project by August 31, 2022. This funding supports the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program, which provides assistance to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to implement community...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). The funding will be used to develop a series of informational webinars, companion videos, and ancillary knowledge-sharing resources through the "Lessons from Community Responders" project. This initiative will...

This $274,095 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Reviewer Zero coalition's efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the peer review process. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program, the three-year award provides strategic programming and interventions for graduate students and reviewers/editors. The grantees—Indiana University, Columbia University, and California State San Bernardino—will design and deliver evidence-based training to build awareness of...

The City of Schenectady received a $125,000 Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants award from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program to support community policing efforts from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. The Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program aims to enhance public safety by assisting law enforcement agencies in building community trust and developing solutions to local public...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota provides $50,000 in funding to conduct fundamental research on enhancing the trustworthiness and authenticity of online information. The key objectives are to investigate social network structures and communication patterns to develop a framework for helping people find safe, useful, and trustworthy information in cyberspace....

This NSF CISE (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $112,610 to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) aims to develop a digital framework to defend against sockpuppet connection requests in online social networks. The goal is to significantly expand the understanding of identity deception and abuse, and design intervention mechanisms to mitigate these types of attacks that can compromise user privacy and enable scams. The project will involve three research thrusts: 1) developing survey...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering, provides $200,000 in funding to George Mason University to develop improved methods and concepts to guide the development and application of new digital technologies that could be used in peer review processes for evaluating scientific publishing and funding outcomes. The research team will seek to compare...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of an empathy-based framework to enhance privacy education and design. The project team at the University of Notre Dame is using generative AI to create synthetic personas with AI-generated personal data. These personas are then used to design interactive sandboxes and developer tools that allow individuals to empathize with...