OJJDP FY 17 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation | OJJDP 2017 10960

Opportunity Information: Apply for OJJDP 2017 10960

The OJJDP FY 17 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation grant is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), designed to support innovative, methodologically sound research and evaluation projects that can directly inform juvenile justice policy and practice. The overall purpose is to advance the DOJ mission by strengthening what is known about effective delinquency prevention, improving juvenile justice system interventions, and supporting reforms that lead to better youth and public safety outcomes. The solicitation is grounded in OJJDPs research and evaluation authority under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002, which allows the agency to fund work focused on preventing, reducing, and controlling juvenile delinquency and serious crime committed by juveniles.

At the content level, OJJDP is looking for studies that tackle important but understudied questions in juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. Priority themes include identifying and testing successful approaches that keep youth with first-time minor offenses from progressing into more serious delinquency, evaluating strategies that reduce recidivism among justice-involved youth, and assessing how juvenile justice systems operate so that they can be improved or reformed. In practice, that means proposals can range from rigorous impact evaluations of programs or policies, to implementation studies that explain why an approach works or fails, to analytic studies that use existing data to answer pressing questions that have not received enough attention.

The solicitation is organized into two distinct application categories that mainly differ by project scale, budget, and allowable duration. Category 1, Large-scale Research and/or Evaluation, supports larger studies with budgets up to $750,000. Category 2, Small Studies and Analyses, is intended for more targeted or limited-scope work and allows budgets up to $125,000. Applicants are allowed to submit more than one proposal as long as each application is meaningfully different, but the same project cannot be submitted under both categories. To avoid confusion during review, applicants must clearly state in the project abstract which category they are applying under.

Eligibility is broad across domestic public, nonprofit, academic, and private-sector organizations that can credibly carry out research or evaluation work. Eligible applicants include state governments (including territories), local governments (counties, cities, townships, and similar units), federally recognized tribal governments, nonprofits (including tribal nonprofits), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profits), and institutions of higher education (including tribal colleges and universities). A key restriction is that for-profit recipients, and in practice other recipients where applicable, must agree to waive profit or management fees as part of accepting the award. Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign institutions of higher education are not eligible.

OJJDP also allows collaborative projects where multiple entities contribute to the work, but the structure must be clear: only one organization can apply as the official applicant and be legally and programmatically responsible for the award. Any partner organizations must be included as subrecipients (subgrantees). The lead applicant is expected to manage the full project, administer funds, and properly oversee and monitor any subawards to ensure the research is conducted as proposed and in compliance with federal requirements.

From the administrative details provided, this opportunity is listed under CFDA 16.540, categorized under Law, Justice, and Legal Services, and uses a grant instrument. The funding opportunity number is OJJDP 2017 10960. The original closing date was February 6, 2017, and OJJDP anticipated making about three awards, with an award ceiling of $750,000 (reflecting the Category 1 maximum). Finally, the solicitation notes that OJJDP may choose to fund highly rated applications in future fiscal years as well, depending on merit and the availability of appropriations, which can matter for strong proposals that cannot be funded immediately due to budget limits.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 17 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.540.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2016-12-05.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-02-06. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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