OVC FY2026 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Traverse City, Michigan (Crisis)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-OVC-2026-172712
- Agency
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Victims of Crime
Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $918,236
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Income Security and Social Services
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- OJP Response Center ojp.responsecenter@usdoj.gov (800) 851-3420
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime is soliciting applications for crisis response grants supporting victims of a mass violence or terrorism incident in Traverse City, Michigan, with applications due August 27, 2026. This "Invited to Apply" opportunity is noncompetitive and restricted to entities that OVC specifically invites; eligible applicants are state and local government agencies responding to the incident. The grant funds supplemental crime victim compensation and assistance where the jurisdiction cannot provide needed services to victims with existing resources. OVC will award funding only where the incident is sufficiently large in scope for the locale and involved unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broad targeting of victims, or otherwise unique aspects to the crime. Awards under the Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) operate through CFDA 16.321 and may be combined with other AEAP grant types—crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation—into a single application or awarded separately. The program provides supplemental support through grants, cooperative agreements, and block grants; recent incident-specific awards have ranged from $750 thousand to $8.5 million depending on scope and recovery timeline. Funds remaining unspent within three fiscal years after the end of the fiscal year in which the award was made revert to the Crime Victims Fund. All award decisions rest with the Assistant Attorney General; recipients must accept or decline awards within 45 days of notification in JustGrants.
Synopsis
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OVC FY 2026 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance. This opportunity supports victims of mass violence and terrorism through the Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP). Funding for this program comes from the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve (the Emergency Reserve). Along with non-grant training and consultation services, there are four types of grants that may be combined into one application or awarded separately to entities OVC invites to apply for funding: crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. The overall goal of AEAP is to provide supplemental support to criminal mass violence and terrorism victims. The overall objective is to increase access to programs designed to improve services, assistance (including victim compensation), and outcomes for victims of mass violence and terrorism. AEAP grants are a mechanism by which the Director of OVC may award supplemental crime victim compensation and assistance to eligible entities responding to acts of mass criminal violence or domestic terrorism. The event must be sufficiently large that the jurisdiction cannot provide needed services to victims of the incident with existing resources, while also supporting victims of other crimes, in a timely and comprehensive manner. OVC generally accesses AEAP funds only in response to incidents that are sufficiently large in scope for the locale, and typically only where there was an unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broad targeting of victims, or otherwise unique aspect to the crime. In most cases, OVC expects States and communities to plan for and address victim needs stemming from relatively more predictable instances of gang-related violence, domestic violence, and broader community gun violence, from existing VOCA resources.
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