Project Grant 2015JVFX0005

The City of Oakland, California, through its Police Department (OPD), has been awarded a $646,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to implement the Procedural Justice/Community Police Trust Project. The 2-year grant, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, will support OPD's efforts to enhance police-community relations and trust through a series of reconciliation workshops. The project aims to repair historical tensions and foster...

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 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 safety...

This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) aims to implement and evaluate an intergroup intervention (the VOICES model) to improve police-community relationships. The project will investigate whether the VOICES intervention, which facilitates dialogue between police and community members, can reduce negative...

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 National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI), in partnership with CIT International, Inc., has been awarded a $800,000 Cooperative Agreement under the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). This funding will be used to establish the Mid-Atlantic Regional De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training Center (MARC) and deliver a comprehensive regional training initiative focused on de-escalation techniques, particularly for...

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

The National Policing Institute will use $110,000 in FY24 funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to supplement their existing Supporting Law Enforcement Agency Accreditation project. The funding will be used to set up and maintain an online Community of Practice (CoP) that will facilitate conversations, information sharing, and support for law...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award Overview The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, operating under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710), awarded a $500,000 cooperative agreement to the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) on October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2027. The award supports development and dissemination of a comprehensive toolkit designed to implement the Take It Down Act (Tools to...

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice awarded RTI International a $637,685 cooperative agreement under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative program. RTI will conduct a four-year mixed methods implementation and quasi-experimental impact evaluation of the expansion and enhancement of Greensboro, North Carolina's Community Connectors violence intervention and prevention initiative. The evaluation will examine...