FY25 Community Policing Development Microgrants

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Opportunity number
O-COPS-2025-172384
Agency
Applications due
Award size
Up to $175,000

Opportunity facts

Assistance listings
Funding instrument
Grant
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 Community Policing Development Microgrants to develop law enforcement capacity for implementing community policing strategies. The grant aims to support innovative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities through guidance on promising practices, knowledge building, and creative crime prevention techniques. Applicants must be entities with primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering funding, managing the project, and monitoring compliance. While multiple entities can participate, only one can serve as the primary applicant, with others potentially identified as subrecipients. The opportunity aligns with federal priorities including increased hiring and retention of law enforcement officers, collaboration with federal task forces, crime prevention, and addressing issues like drug distribution and human trafficking.

The grant opportunity has a due date of June 24, 2025, with funding typically ranging between $40,000 and $800,000 and performance periods spanning two to five years. Eligible applicants include municipal police departments, sheriff's offices, universities, and nonprofit organizations focused on law enforcement training and support. Performance locations will be within the jurisdiction of recipient agencies, with a focus on implementing community policing strategies that develop partnerships between law enforcement and the communities they serve. The program emphasizes collaborative problem-solving, organizational transformation, and building trust through systematic partnerships and proactive approaches to public safety challenges.

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 Community Policing Development Microgrants. Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities. 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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