Project Grant S184M220039

The Urban Peace Institute (UPI) was awarded a $1.5 million Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) program. Over three years, UPI will implement the South Park Peacemakers initiative to reduce gun and gang violence in the high-crime South Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. UPI will convene stakeholders to develop violence prevention...

Voces Unidas For Justice received a three-year, $400,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047). The organization will leverage its expertise and community partnerships to address underreporting of hate crimes against underserved groups in Colorado Springs, Colorado through September 2025. Key deliverables include expanding an existing social media...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753), awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant to Unlawful Narcotics Investigations, Treatment And Education, Inc. (UNITE) for the period of October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The grant will fund a three-pronged approach to enhance and expand UNITE's substance misuse prevention efforts within its 33-county service area in Kentucky. Key activities include: Utilizing UNITE's established school-based...

The Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.045 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative) awarded a $998,491 project grant to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct a developmental evaluation of the Chattanooga United to Reduce Violence (CURV) community violence intervention and prevention initiative in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The 3-year project will assist CURV stakeholders with data-driven decision-making, lay the foundation for...

The Urban Peace Institute (UPI) was awarded a $1,999,434 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045). The grant will fund UPI's "Compton and Harbor Peacemakers: Reducing Community Violence Program" from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The program will leverage UPI's expertise in implementing community-based violence intervention and prevention...

The Community Network Services Inc. was awarded a $1,450,800 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative program. The grant funds the Victor Program, which will engage community members and stakeholders over three years through 2025 in learning and applying violence intervention and prevention strategies based on the Cure Violence and P.I.E.R. models. The program...

Nonviolent Peaceforce will receive $1.5 million from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative program (CFDA 16.045) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Key activities to be delivered by Nonviolent Peaceforce and its community partners in North Minneapolis include a community violence assessment, formalizing a community coalition, providing customized training in unarmed...

The City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) received a $999,998 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). The funding will be used to expand the DVP's School Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) program by hiring three additional full-time violence interrupters. This will allow each of the seven high-risk Oakland schools participating in the...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded Utec Inc., a non-profit community development organization, a $900,000 Project Grant under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045). The grant supports a 3-year effort by Utec to strengthen and expand street outreach and reentry services to reduce and prevent community violence targeting young adults aged 17-25 in Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill, Massachusetts. Key activities include: Forming a...

The United Hope Network, Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016) by the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. This grant will fund a 3-year project, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026, to provide culturally specific resources and services addressing the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of Black/African American victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual...