OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program | O OVW 2024 171994

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program (SAS Culturally Specific Program) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), listed under CFDA 16.023. It is designed to strengthen sexual assault services that are specifically tailored to culturally specific communities by funding nonprofits that either already have direct expertise in sexual assault services or work in partnership with an organization that does. The overall focus is not simply to provide general victim services, but to ensure services are culturally appropriate, sustainable over time, and responsive to the distinct barriers, needs, and realities that survivors in these communities often face.

The program goal is to establish, maintain, and expand services for victims of sexual assault from culturally specific communities. In practice, that means supporting community-rooted approaches that survivors are more likely to trust and use, and that reflect the language, traditions, community dynamics, and lived experiences of the populations served. OVW frames the intent around addressing unique needs and challenges, which commonly include issues like limited access to culturally competent providers, stigma within communities, language access obstacles, immigration-related concerns, historical trauma, and gaps in systems that may not be designed to serve these communities effectively.

Eligibility is limited and intentionally narrow. Applicants must be private nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose as an organization is to provide culturally specific services. The solicitation identifies the culturally specific communities covered as American Indians (including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts), Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Blacks, or Hispanics, within the United States or U.S. territories. The eligible applicant types listed include: Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), nonprofits with IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education), and certain other eligible entities as defined by OVW in the solicitation. A key point is that the organization must be culturally specific in its primary purpose, rather than offering culturally specific programming as a secondary or occasional service line.

This funding opportunity is offered as a grant (funding instrument type: Grant) and is categorized under Law, Justice, and Legal Services. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2024-171994. The application closing date was April 4, 2024, and the opportunity was posted/created on February 23, 2024. OVW anticipated making about 20 awards under this solicitation, with an award ceiling of $375,000, meaning individual awards could be funded up to that maximum amount depending on OVW decisions and applicant proposals.

At its core, this program is meant to help culturally specific nonprofits build and sustain survivor-centered sexual assault services that make sense in the communities they serve, rather than forcing survivors to rely on one-size-fits-all models. The emphasis on sustainability and culturally appropriate approaches signals that OVW is looking for programs that can maintain impact beyond a short-term intervention, strengthen community trust, and expand access to meaningful support for survivors who are often underserved in mainstream systems.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.023.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-02-23.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-04-04. (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 $375,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: 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, Others.

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