The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $399,999 Project Grant under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047) to the Global Peace Foundation. The three-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will fund a project dedicated to reducing community tensions and enhancing resilience against hate crimes and incidents, with a focus on Black and African immigrant populations in Maryland's Prince Georges, Montgomery, and Anne Arundel...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Education, Investigation and Prosecution Program (CFDA 16.040) aims to study how community-based organizations (CBOs) and their coordination with government can innovatively and proactively reduce hate crime perpetration. The $665,999 grant, awarded on January 1, 2024, will fund a 2.5-year project led by the Research Foundation of the...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded a $999,428 Project Grant under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047) to Mediators Beyond Borders, International, on behalf of the Trust Network. The project aims to help communities understand, address, and heal from hate speech and hate crimes. The key products and services to be delivered include: Identifying 10 dispute resolution centers in high-risk "corridors of hate" in...
The Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047), awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to Movementforward Inc., a modern, inclusive social change and non-profit organization. The funding will support the Preventing and Addressing Rural Hate Crime (PARHC) project, which aims to develop and disseminate materials, tools, and strategies for building capacity in local organizations and law enforcement to prevent hate crimes against new...
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) within the U.S. Department of Justice awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047) to the Pinyon Foundation (doing business as La Red Hispana) to implement the "No al Odio" (No to Hate) project. The project aims to empower and engage Hispanic communities in California to understand, report, and not perpetrate hate crimes, with a focus on Los Angeles, Central Valley, and Imperial...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $361,491 Project Grant under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047) to MN8, a non-profit organization, for the Intergenerational Response to Hate Project. This 3-year project, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, aims to support survivors, increase reporting, and develop community-based responses to hate crimes targeting Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and...
The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) will deliver training and resources to address hate crimes through a $400,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant was awarded on October 1, 2022 under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047). Over a three-year period concluding September 30, 2025, ICSVE will train law enforcement, community stakeholders, and victim...
The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $400,000 Project Grant over 36 months to St. John's Community Health, a non-profit healthcare organization, to implement a community-based Stop the Hate Immigrant and Transgender Restorative Justice Program. The program aims to enhance reporting and data collection on hate crimes and incidents targeting immigrant and transgender communities, establish an effective task force to develop community-based solutions, expand public...
The Diversity Center of Oklahoma, Inc. was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047) from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice. The purpose of this 3-year grant is to create new community-wide approaches to preventing and addressing hate crimes in the Greater Oklahoma area. Key project activities and outcomes include: whole-community engagement with non-traditional partner...
The U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $453,438 Project Grant under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice (CFDA 16.047) program to the Faith-Based Information Sharing And Analysis Organization. The grant will fund the Hate Crimes Preparedness and Mitigation for Faith-Based Communities Program, which aims to help faith-based organizations (FBOs) build preparedness and mitigation strategies to address hate incidents. Key activities include...