FY25 Collaborative Reform Initiative Invitational

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Opportunity number
O-COPS-2025-172394
Agency
Applications due
Award size
Up to $4,750,000

Opportunity facts

Assistance listings
Funding instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Category
  • Law, Justice and Legal Services
Eligible applicants
  • Other
Points of contact
Full announcement

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About this opportunity

Written by GovTribe AI ·

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is seeking applications for the FY25 Collaborative Reform Initiative (CRI) Invitational award to highlight law enforcement best practices and promote community policing nationwide. The grant opportunity targets law enforcement agencies seeking to enhance officer safety, build organizational capacity, and improve community policing strategies. Applicants must be prepared to demonstrate collaborative approaches, with only one entity serving as the primary applicant even if multiple entities will participate in the project. The cooperative agreement will focus on advancing community policing through partnerships, organizational transformation, and problem-solving techniques. The application deadline is June 24, 2025, with a key requirement that the primary applicant must have full responsibility for administering funding, managing the project, and monitoring compliance.

The grant opportunity falls under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710), with typical award values ranging from $40,000 to $800,000 and performance periods spanning two to five years. Performance locations will be within the jurisdiction of the recipient agencies, primarily targeting state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement organizations. The funding aims to support initiatives such as de-escalation training, crisis intervention, mental health support, technology acquisition, and organizational development to strengthen community-police relationships. Awards will comply with Executive Orders focusing on law enforcement priorities, including officer hiring and retention, collaboration with federal task forces, crime prevention, and addressing issues like drug distribution and human trafficking.

Synopsis

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office, https://cops.usdoj.gov is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for the FY25 Collaborative Reform Initiative (CRI) Invitational award. Collaborative Reform Initiative (CRI) program funds are used to highlight best practices of law enforcement agencies and the many ways they are protecting Americans; enhance officer safety and wellness; build agencies' capacity for self-improvement; and promote community policing practices nationwide. The COPS Office welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any other entities carrying out the federal award must be identified as proposed subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the awards, including administering the funding, managing the entire project and monitoring compliance. The terms and conditions of the federal award are also applicable to subrecipients. Please note the distinction between a subaward that creates a financial assistance relationship to carry out a portion of the federal award and a contract that creates a procurement relationship for the purchase of goods and services needed under the federal award. To assist in making subrecipient and contractor determinations, please refer to the guidance in 2 C.F.R. § 200.331. All future awards will comply with Executive Orders and Attorney General memoranda to advance the Administration's priority of reestablishing law and order to include the increased hiring and retention of state and local sworn officers, state and local law enforcement collaboration with federal task forces, cracking down on the open use of illegal drugs, interrupting the distribution of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs, preventing crime, promoting nuisance abatement, countering human trafficking and child smuggling, and enhanced immigration enforcement and border security. All awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and any modifications or additional requirements that may be imposed by law. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the NOFO materials, the terms 'community policing' and 'common sense policing' are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified.

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