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OVC FY 2022 Measuring the Impact of Victim Services: Implementation, Management, and Sustainment of the Measures for Providers Responding to Victimization Experiences (iMPRoVE) Project

Agency: Office for Victims of Crime

Assistance Listings
  • 16.582 -- Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants

Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

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OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is committed to enhancing the Nation’s capacity to assist crime victims and provide leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime. This solicitation seeks to fund one entity to implement, manage, and sustain the Measures for Providers Responding to Victimization Experiences (iMPRoVE) project for victim service providers. The iMPRoVE project provides an assessment survey tool for victim service providers to measure outcomes and assess the effectiveness and quality of services provided to their clients. OVC is working to help drive the victim service field from a focus on effort to a focus on results and effectiveness by creating a standardized approach to measuring the outcomes and quality of services across the field.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Government

  • City or township governments
  • Public and Indian housing authorities
  • County governments
  • State governments
  • Special district governments
  • Federally recognized Native American tribal governments

Nonprofit

  • Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
  • Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
  • Other Native American tribal organizations

Education

  • Public and state institutions of higher education
  • Independent school districts
  • Private institutions of higher education

Miscellaneous

  • Unrestricted
  • Other
  • Individuals

Business

  • For-profit organizations other than small businesses
  • Small businesses

Additional information

For purposes of this solicitation, "state" means any state if the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding. To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions: (1) the agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and (2) the agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward. For detailed information on this certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO to access the Standards for Certification on Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Implementation Fact Sheet, and the List of Designated Independent Credentialing Bodies.All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

Grantor contact information

Description

For technical assistance with submitting the Application for Federal Assistance standard form (SF)-424 and a Disclosure of Lobbying Activities form (SF-LLL) in Grants.gov, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800-518-4726, 606-545-5035, Grants.gov Customer Support, or support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. For technical assistance with submitting the full application in DOJ's Justice Grants System (JustGrants), contact the JustGrants Service Desk at 833-872-5175 or JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov. The JustGrants Service Desk operates 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. eastern time Monday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, and Federal holidays. For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the OJP Response Center by telephone at 800-851-3420 or TTY: 301-240-6310 (hearing impaired only), or by email at grants@ncjrs.gov. The OJP Response Center hours of operation are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., eastern time Monday-Friday, and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the solicitation closing date. grants@ncjrs.gov

Email

OJP Response Center

grants@ncjrs.gov

Documents

File nameDescriptionLast updated
O-OVC-2022-171338-OVC_FY22_iMPRoVE-V1_SI-171338.pdf
Full Announcement
May 12, 2022 12:47 PM UTC

Link to additional information

Funding Opportunity

Closed: July 5, 2022

Application process

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Award

$1,500,000

Program Funding

5

Expected awards

$--

Award Minimum

$1,500,000

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

O-OVC-2022-171338

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

No

Funding instrument type:

Cooperative agreement

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

--

Category of Funding Activity:

Income security and social services

Category Explanation:

--

History

Version:

2

Posted date:

May 12, 2022

Archive date:

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