OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program - Solicitation | O OVW 2023 171480

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), authorized under 34 U.S.C. 12341 and listed under CFDA 16.589. The program is designed specifically for rural communities and focuses on improving victim safety and strengthening local responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The central idea is to fund projects that are intentionally built around the realities of rural life, including distance, limited services, transportation barriers, fewer specialized providers, and greater isolation that can make it harder for victims to seek help and for communities to coordinate an effective response.

Funding is intended to support approaches that both address and prevent these crimes in rural areas, typically by improving coordinated community responses among key partners such as victim service providers, law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, healthcare providers, and other community organizations. OVW also ties this program to its broader performance measurement framework under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Measuring Effectiveness Initiative, meaning funded projects are expected to track progress and outcomes using OVW performance measures and contribute to OVW reporting on program effectiveness.

A notable update in this solicitation reflects changes made by the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022. That law added a new purpose area focused on sexual assault forensic medical examination (SAFE/SANE) programs and, importantly, added improving access to quality sexual assault examinations by trained healthcare providers to the program's required strategies. In practical terms, this means rural projects can place stronger emphasis on expanding or improving access to trained examiners and quality forensic medical services for sexual assault survivors, which is often a major gap in rural regions where hospitals may not have specialized staff or where victims may otherwise need to travel long distances for an exam.

Eligible applicants are broad and include state, county, and city or township governments; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities). The solicitation also notes that additional eligibility clarification may be provided in the full text. The award type is a grant under the law, justice, and legal services funding activity category. For FY 2023, the expected number of awards is 55, with an award ceiling of $950,000 per award. The opportunity was created on February 24, 2023, with an original closing date of April 11, 2023, under funding opportunity number O-OVW-2023-171480.

• The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program - Solicitation" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.589.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 24, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 11, 2023. (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 $950,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 55 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, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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