OpportunityTitle: Fiscal Year 2024 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program
CategoryExplanation: Preparedness: Prevention
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Authority and Capacity: Applicants must demonstrate that they have sufficient authority and capacity to implement a project that t aligns with the Innovation Project Track or one or more of the Project Types within the Promising Practices Project Track, as outlined in Appendix B of the NOFO, including the capability to engage the participants they propose to include in their projects.Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties: Proposed projects shall uphold individual privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. Applications shall describe the project&#8217;s plans for collection of personally identifiable information (PII), its purpose for the collection, its plans for the use and retention of such PII, and any potential impacts to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties and ways in which applicants will prevent or mitigate those impacts and administer their projects in a nondiscriminatory manner. For example, proposed projects shall not profile or target individuals or groups based on their political affiliation or legally protected characteristics, including but not limited to their race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation, nor in any way infringe on First Amendment or other protected activities. Applications that describe programs, projects, or activities that do not appropriately protect privacy, civil rights, or civil liberties will be deemed ineligible for selection and not reviewed or scored. Completeness: Applications must include all required elements (see Appendix C, &#8220;Contents and Format of Application&#8221; within the NOFO as well as specific requirements of the projects they are proposing. This includes performance measures for each project type (see Appendix B &#8220;Application Tracks&#8221; within the NOFO). Failure to provide a complete application or any significant deviation from the requirements may result in an application being deemed ineligible and not reviewed or scored. Research: Projects that solely conduct research without implementation are not eligible under this program. Research is an allowable expense; however, applicants must propose to implement one or more prevention capabilities during the Period of Performance (POP) and must demonstrate how any proposed research will support that implementation. For any research involving Human Subjects, please review NOFO Section F.2(e) &#8220;Administrative and National Policy Requirements - Protection of Human Subjects in Research. Number of Allowable Applications per Applicant Organization: As stated  in Section E.1(a) &#8220;Application Evaluation Criteria - Programmatic Criteria,&#8221; of the NOFO, each applicant organization may only submit one application per funding track. Therefore, the maximum number of applications an applicant can submit is two, one each for the &#8220;Promising Practices&#8221; and &#8220;Innovation&#8221; tracks. If the same organization submits multiple applications within the same application track, DHS will only review one application per track. Please note: Affiliated universities within a university system are considered different organizations for the purposes of this criterion. As such, each university within the university system may submit one application each within the &#8220;Promising Practices&#8221; and &#8220;Innovation&#8221; Tracks. Similarly, affiliated state, tribal, or local government entities within the same state or locality, such as a state Department of Public of Safety and state Department of Health, are considered separate applicant entities for the purposes of this criterion.  For further information on the two application tracks please consult Appendix B &#8220;Application Tracks, Project Types, and Minimum Standards&quot; within the NOFO.
Description: Acts of targeted violence and terrorism are often preventable occurences. American communities continue to be vulnerable to these threats &#8211; forms of violence that impact our collective sense of security and freedom as Americans. CP3 strengthens our country&#8217;s ability to prevent targeted violence and terrorism nationwide, through funding, training, increased public awareness, and partnerships across every level of government, the private sector, and in local communities. Leveraging an approach informed by public health research, CP3 brings together mental health providers, educators, faith leaders, public health and safety officials, social services, nonprofits, and others in communities across the country to help people who are on a pathway to violence before harm occurs. The TVTP Grant Program provides financial assistance, training, and resources to eligible applicants. These grants enable recipients to develop sustainable, multidisciplinary TVTP capabilities in local communities, pilot innovative prevention approaches, and identify prevention best practices that can be replicated in communities across the country.Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a range of violent extremist ideologies, of both domestic and foreign origin, continue to pose a persistent terrorism-related threat facing the United States. Among domestic violent extremists, racially or ethnically motivated extremists will likely remain a lethal threat. Since 2020, DHS has also seen a significant increase in anti-government and anti-authority threats, which typically target law enforcement, elected officials, and government personnel and facilities. Foreign terrorist organizations continue to motivate supporters, including homegrown violent extremists, to carry out attacks in the United States, both within and from beyond our borders. Al-Qa&#8217;ida and ISIS have been diminished by longstanding pressure, but their networks and affiliates have diffused and persisted, often in areas of enduring conflict or lacking governance. Mass targeted violence attacks that lack a distinct ideological focus, such as many of the mass shootings in U.S. schools, also have increased in recent years. Since the renewal of fighting in the Israel-HAMAS conflict, there has been an increase in threats and targeted violence against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities, institutions, and public officials in the Homeland, including attacks identified or suspected to be hate crimes. The TVTP Grant program will continue to support projects that aim to prevent all forms of targeted violence and terrorism as well as projects that focus on preventing the most pressing current targeted violence and terrorism threats.Many domestic violence extremists exploit online platforms to spread hate, sow discord and division, and promote narratives to encourage violence. The TVTP Grant program supports online, in-person, and hybrid projects that address the threat of online pathways to violence as well as the threat of violence in physical spaces. Several states have developed state TVTP strategies, and this program supports the development and implementation of state, regional, or community TVTP strategies. Projects supported under this program must adhere to strict privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties standards described in this guidance. Furthermore, projects must be designed and operated in ways that do not infringe on individuals&#8217; free speech or target anyone based on the exercise of their First Amendment rights.Applicants can submit applications for this funding opportunity through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO). Access the system at https://go.fema.gov/
GrantorContactEmailDescription: femago@fema.dhs.gov
GrantorContactText: FEMA GO Help Desk &lt;br/&gt;   Phone: 1-877-585-3242 &lt;br/&gt;   E-mail: femago@fema.dhs.gov &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;For questions regarding the application content, please reach out to the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3)&#8217;s Applicant Help Desk at TerrorismPrevention@hq.dhs.gov