Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice

Program goal(s) name: Comprehensive responses to hate crimes.
Program goal(s) description: Develop and enhance comprehensive community-based approaches to address hate crimes, speech, and incidents by promoting community awareness and preparedness, increasing victim reporting, improving prevention efforts and responses to hate crimes. Develop and enhance activities to strengthen community resiliency.
Program objective(s) name: Increase community involvement in and funding to prevent and address hate crimes.
Project objective(s) description: Invest in community-led initiatives that prevent hate crimes through conflict resolution, community empowerment, and education; Support programs that result in increased reporting of hate crimes to law enforcement or other trusted community institutions; Establish and disseminate a catalogue of various initiatives, efforts, and activities that have been implemented by communities to address hate crimes by promoting replication; Increase access to federal grant funds to prevent and address hate crimes; Increase opportunities for organizations to share lessons learned about their programs.

All final award decisions will be made by the Assistant Attorney General, unless a statute explicitly authorizes award decisions by another official or there is written delegation of authority to another official. For successful applicants, JustGrants will send a system-generated email to the Application Submitter, Authorized Representative, and Entity Administrator with information on accessing their official award package in JustGrants. The award package will include key information (such as funding amount and period of performance) as well as award conditions that must be followed. The Authorized Representative for the entity should accept or decline the award within 45 days of the notification.

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.