Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer NO HATE Act

Program goal(s) name: Increase reporting of hate crimes and serve victims.
Program goal(s) description: For state agencies to establish and operate state-run hate crime reporting hotlines to facilitate significantly increased reporting of hate crimes data, and to ensure that victims are connected to available support services and informed about their reporting options to law enforcement.
Program objective(s) name: Improve collaboration across stakeholders to support reporting and addressing victims’ needs.
Program objective(s) description: Support collaboration with existing national or state-run hotlines for peer-to-peer learning on the successful implementation of state-run hotlines; and Support collaboration with stakeholders including victim service providers, survivors, persons with lived experiences, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and others to complete a community resource map to identify the needs of the community and the resources available to address those needs through a hate crime reporting hotline.

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The review procedure for applications is specified in the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) and generally includes eligibility and responsiveness, merit, programmatic, budget, and risk reviews.