OpportunityTitle: OVC FY 2018 Initiative to Enhance Crime Victims&apos; Rights Enforcement and Victim Access to Legal Assistance
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations),  faith-based and community-based organizations, colleges or universities (including tribal  institutions of higher education), and public agencies, federally recognized Indian tribal  governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), or tribal organizations. Applicants  should be able to demonstrate: (1) the capacity to competitively award subgrants to individual  legal clinics; (2) the ability to provide programmatic, financial and administrative oversight and  support to multiple legal clinics; (3) the knowledge and understanding of the enforcement of  crime victims&#146; rights; (4) the experience in providing legal counsel and crime victims&#146; rights  enforcement services for victims in criminal cases, and providing civil legal assistance to victims  of crime in collateral legal matters; (5) sufficient staff resources and the capability to fulfill the  objectives required by this project; and (6) the capacity to carry out the objectives of this  program as a stand-alone program.  All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or  management fee.  OVC may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2018 solicitation in future fiscal  years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and on the  availability of appropriations.
Description: This initiative is intended to expand on federal, state, local, and tribal efforts to enforce crime victims&#146; rights. One managing training and technical assistance (TTA) provider will be selected under this initiative, which, in turn, will competitively select up to six subgrantee clinics. OVC expects to make one award totaling $6.9 million to the managing TTA provider for a 3-year award period, beginning on October 1, 2018. The $6.9 million will be distributed as follows: (a) approximately $900,000 for the managing TTA provider; and (b) approximately $6 million for six crime victims&#146; rights clinics ($1 million per site). OVC will conduct one pre-application webinar on June 14, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. e.t. Register at www.ovc.gov/grants/webinars.html. Apply by July 2, 2018.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: OVC&#146;s National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Response Center
GrantorContactText: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact OVC&#146;s National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Response Center: toll free at 800&#150;851&#150;3420; via TTY at 301&#150;240&#150;6310 (hearing impaired only); email to grants@ncjrs.gov; fax to 301&#150;240&#150;5830; or web chat at https://webcontact.ncjrs.gov/ncjchat/chat.jsp. The NCJRS Response Center operates from 10:00 a.m.&#150;6:00 p.m., eastern time, Monday through Friday, and from 10:00 a.m.&#150;8:00 p.m., eastern time on the solicitation closing date. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;grants@ncjrs.gov&lt;br/&gt;