The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate awarded a $1,490,000 Project Grant to Moonshot CVE USA Inc. under the Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies (CFDA 97.108) program. This two-year research program is designed to enhance understanding of the trends, nature, causes, and correlates of terrorism and targeted violence in the United States. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) a comprehensive...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate awarded the University of Maryland a $3,512,917 Project Grant under the Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies program (CFDA 97.108). The grant supports research to develop an open-source, event-level database on terrorism and targeted violence in the United States (T2V). The objective is to create robust, comprehensive data that are widely accessible to various audiences and...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, under the Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies program (CFDA 97.108), provides $1,288,000.00 to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) over a two-year period ending on February 19, 2026. The project seeks to evaluate the Redirect Method, a technique developed by Moonshot CVE USA Inc. in collaboration with Google's Jigsaw, for...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded a $817,129 Project Grant on August 28, 2023 to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue-U.S. (ISD-US), a non-profit, woman-owned organization, under the Financial Assistance for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant Program (CFDA 97.132). The grant supports ISD-US's efforts to counter violent extremism, hate, and disinformation through research, analysis, and resource development. Key activities include using computational...
This $246,669 Project Grant awarded on December 29, 2023 by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism (CFDA 19.701 - Global Counterterrorism Programs) supports the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), an international non-profit organization, to promote social cohesion in communities hosting Ukrainian refugees and counter anti-Ukraine/Ukrainian narratives both online and offline. ISD will leverage its expertise in countering extremism, hate, and polarization to deliver training,...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $295,020 project grant to the International Center For The Study Of Violent Extremism on September 18, 2022 under the Financial Assistance for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention program (CFDA 97.132). The grant will support the Center's work countering violent extremism by raising local community awareness of the signs that someone may be escalating towards violence or terrorism and of the threats of targeted violence and terrorism. The...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), through its Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $1,061,328 federal Project Grant by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate under CFDA 97.108 Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies. This grant funds a 2-year research project to investigate features of community-centered reporting programs across 7 countries in order to address the gap between research...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded a $1,192,220 Project Grant under the "National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants" program (CFDA 16.560) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to develop and administer the "National Survey on Support for Violent Extremism". The goal of this 4-year project is to provide valid and reliable estimates on the prevalence, magnitude, and geographic clustering of support for...
This $583,644 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Maryland, College Park. The grant will fund a 3-year research project to develop methods for detecting radicalization and deradicalization within online extremist communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: Building a lexicon of subcultural language used in extremist online forums as indicators of...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through its Financial Assistance for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (CFDA 97.132) program, awarded a $243,955.00 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) on September 18, 2023. This grant supports RF SUNY's efforts to build community awareness and capabilities for preventing targeted violence and terrorism. The grant funding allows RF SUNY to deliver educational programs, conduct...
This 24-month, $1,249,621 project grant awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate under the Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies program (CFDA 97.108) is designed to provide in-depth analysis of the rapidly evolving domestic violent extremist threat landscape in the United States. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a woman-owned non-profit organization, will leverage novel computational social science methods and digital ethnographic research to systematically track online extremist tactics, techniques, and trends. This work aims to inform evidence-based policy responses and intervention strategies at the national and local levels, with a focus on understanding the intersection of international and domestic violent extremism. The analysis will cover a range of extremist ideologies, including racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and anti-government extremism, and will be made publicly accessible to support practitioners, policymakers, and the general public.