OpportunityTitle: OVC FY 2018 Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: By statute, grants under this program may be awarded to states; units of local government;  federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as recognized by the Secretary of the Interior);  nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (including tribal nonprofit and nongovernment  organizations); and state and local law enforcement agencies. For the purposes of this program,  a unit of local government is any city, county, township, town borough, parish, village, or other  general purpose political subdivision of a state or territory.  Eligible applicants are only law enforcement agencies and victim service providers located and  operating within the community, jurisdiction, or geographic area of the human trafficking task  force specified within the application. Additional eligibility requirements, per purpose area, can  be found on pages 12&#150;17.  This funding announcement requires two separate but coordinated applications from each  human trafficking task force seeking funding: one application from a lead state, local, or tribal  law enforcement agency, and one application from a lead victim service organization. The two  applications must be developed in close collaboration with each other, and must be submitted  as a pair, with each applicant naming the other as the primary partner.  Law enforcement and victim service provider applicants from task forces that received funding  under this Enhanced Collaborative Model program in fiscal years (FY) 2016 and 2017 are not  eligible to apply. Current OVC grantees funded under OVC FY 2016 or FY 2017  Comprehensive Services programs are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation,  unless the new proposal outlines new services, cost items, or service areas that were not  included in the FY 2016 or 2017 application.   Applicants that are nonprofit organizations must be organizations described in 26 U.S.C. &#167;  501(c)(3) and exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. &#167; 501(a). Nonprofit organizations that hold  money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. &#167;  511(a) are not eligible to apply.  Applicants that are nonprofit organizations must be organizations described in 26 U.S.C. &#167;  501(c)(3) and exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. &#167; 501(a). Nonprofit organizations that hold  money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. &#167;  511(a) are not eligible to apply.
Description: OVC and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) will make awards to support law enforcement and victim service provider efforts within human trafficking task forces under the following purpose areas (PAs). PA 1: Funding is intended to help task forces with critical first steps related to starting up a multidisciplinary task force. PA 2: Eligible applicants are task forces that were funded in FY 15 under PA 1 of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force Program. The FY 18 PA 2 supports continued activities and planning for task force sustainability. PA 3: Eligible applicants are task forces that were funded in FY 15 under PA 2 of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force Program. The FY 18 PA 3 supports funding to expand task force efforts, implement task force sustainability plans, and assist OVC/BJA in building capacity of other task forces.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: For Programmatic Questions
GrantorContactText: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, victim service provider applicants &lt;br/&gt;should contact Mary Atlas-Terry, OVC Program Specialist, by phone at 202&#150;353&#150;8473 or by &lt;br/&gt;email at Mary.Atlas-Terry@usdoj.gov, and law enforcement applicants should contact Linda Hammond-Deckard, BJA Policy Advisor, by phone at 202&#150;514&#150;6015 or by email at &lt;br/&gt;Linda.Hammond-Deckard@ojp.usdoj.gov. &lt;br/&gt;mary.atlas-terry@usdoj.gov&lt;br/&gt;