Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc.

Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc. (MSCASA), a Jackson, Mississippi–based nonprofit organization, operates as a federal grant recipient providing training, technical assistance, and prevention capacity building on sexual violence response and prevention to institutions of higher education, victim service providers, and coalition networks across the United States. MSCASA serves as the designated state coalition under the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grant programs and represents ten local rape crisis centers, five of which are CDC-funded Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) centers.

The organization's federal footprint is concentrated almost entirely within the OVW portfolio. Of 28 total awards in the source data spanning 2005 to the present, 25 are OVW grants (89% of the award count), with two additional awards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and one from the Department of the Air Force. MSCASA competes and wins exclusively as a prime recipient; the source reports zero subrecipient awards. Combined obligated funding across all awards totals $13.5 million. Most recent activity includes two awards in 2026: an August 1 cooperative agreement of $300,000 under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526) to maintain and expand the Campus Online Clearinghouse addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on college campuses through July 31, 2029; and an August 1 cooperative agreement of $500,000 under the same initiative to develop resources and deliver training and technical assistance on victim services and advocacy programs for college students through July 31, 2029.

Representative capability work spans three OVW program streams. Under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative, MSCASA delivers a $2 million cooperative agreement (awarded October 1, 2023, running through September 30, 2026) to implement the Culturally Specific Campus Consortium (CSCC) project in collaboration with the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, providing culturally relevant training and technical assistance to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities on addressing violence against women on campuses. Under the State Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program (CFDA 16.556), MSCASA received a $243,213 formula grant (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026) to coordinate statewide victim services activities and collaborate with federal, state, and local entities on violence against women initiatives, with funding split between STOP Violence Against Women and Sexual Assault Services Program set-asides. Under the OVW Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program, MSCASA received a project grant (October 1, 2022 through March 31, 2027) to identify, assess, and respond to victims in rural communities. Two awards from the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control focus on sexual violence prevention capacity: a $2.25 million project grant (June 30, 2024 through June 29, 2028) to implement evidence-based community and societal-level prevention strategies advancing health equity in 43 rural communities, and a completed $277,400 project grant (June 30, 2023 through June 29, 2024) assessing primary prevention capacity readiness and planning.

Activity volume has declined from four awards in 2022 to one in 2025, with two awards awarded in 2026. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure.