The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $499,998 Project Grant under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590) to the State Attorneys Office-17Th Circuit in Broward County, Florida. This grant supports the Enhancing Investigations and Prosecution of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (EIP) project, which aims to expand and improve the capacity of law enforcement...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.590 - Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program) to the Imperial County District Attorney's Office, in partnership with the Woman Haven Center for Family Solutions, will enhance the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases in Imperial County, California. Specific activities...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). The grant, awarded to the County of Erie, New York, in partnership with Community Services for Every1, Inc., will fund the following key activities over a 3-year period from October 2024 to September 2027: Hiring and training of a domestic violence prosecutor and investigator...
The Travis County District Attorney's Office (TCDA), in partnership with Safe Alliance, received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). The grant will fund three key activities over a three-year period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027: 1) hiring a paralegal to support domestic violence, dating violence, sexual...
The California Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) was awarded a $600,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, under the Child Support Services Research program (CFDA 93.564). The award, titled the "SOLA IMPACT PROJECT", will fund a five-year project from September 2024 to September 2029. The project aims to develop innovative approaches to enhance employment opportunities for noncustodial...
This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement under the Trans-National Crime federal grant program (CFDA 19.705), will continue to support the Sabah Wildlife Department in Malaysia. The $1,610,769.58 award, effective from October 1, 2024 to October 1, 2026, aims to build the department's investigative, enforcement, and prosecutorial capacity to combat wildlife trafficking. This includes enhancing law enforcement...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590) supports the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, in partnership with Long Island Against Domestic Violence, in implementing enhanced investigative and prosecutorial capabilities for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases in Suffolk County, New...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 awarded the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation $489,324 under the Consolidated Pesticide Enforcement Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.700) for the period of July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. Through this project grant, the Alaska DEC will continue implementation of its pesticide regulatory and enforcement programs, including compliance monitoring, inspections, enforcement activities, certification and training for pesticide...
This federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) supports the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) in reviewing potential wrongful convictions caused by inadequate legal representation prior to 2011. Specifically, the funding will enable IPNO to screen 246 cases with a high likelihood of wrongful conviction due to ineffective counsel, based on their arrest dates prior to the implementation of Louisiana's Public Defender Act...
This cooperative agreement award of $299,100 from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks to identify methods for protecting fish catches from whale depredation and develop low-cost protective designs that can be deployed using current longline fishing techniques. The International Pacific Halibut Commission will conduct a workshop with industry stakeholders to identify the top two or three catch protection designs. Functional prototypes of the selected...