Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2021 92008
The OVC FY 2021 National Joint Training Conference for VOCA Victim Assistance and Victim Compensation Administrators (2022-2024) is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). Its purpose is to fund a single organization to plan and carry out the VOCA National Training Conferences in three consecutive years: 2022, 2023, and 2024. These conferences are designed for State VOCA Victim Assistance and Victim Compensation Administrators, along with their staff, and they function as a national forum for skill-building, shared problem-solving, and consistent dissemination of effective practices across states and territories.
At its core, the opportunity aligns with DOJ priorities around advancing civil rights, improving access to justice, strengthening support systems for crime victims, protecting the public from crime and emerging threats, and building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Through this solicitation, OVC is investing in a structured national training and technical assistance effort that brings together administrators who oversee VOCA-funded victim services and compensation programs, recognizing that these leaders set policy direction, interpret federal requirements, manage funding, and guide statewide implementation that directly affects victims experiences.
The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which generally signals that OVC expects to have an active role in the project beyond simply providing funds. In practice, that typically means coordination with OVC on major planning elements such as conference themes, training priorities, quality standards, and deliverables. The funded organization would be responsible for the end-to-end execution of the conference series, which commonly includes agenda design; recruitment and coordination of speakers and subject-matter experts; development of workshops, panels, and plenary sessions; facilitation of peer-to-peer forums where states can raise operational and policy issues; logistical planning; and production of conference materials that can be reused as technical assistance resources after each event.
The conferences themselves are intended to deliver training and technical assistance while also creating a structured opportunity for states to present issues and practices to one another. The solicitation highlights common conference formats like lectures, panels, workshops, and forums, indicating a mix of instructional content and interactive sessions. This approach supports both knowledge transfer (for example, updates on VOCA policy, compliance, victim-centered approaches, and program management) and practical implementation support (for example, problem-solving around compensation claims processes, subrecipient monitoring, equitable access to services, data collection, and improving responsiveness to underserved victims). By convening administrators and staff in a national setting, the project aims to strengthen consistency, improve program quality, and accelerate adoption of practices that have demonstrated success in different jurisdictions.
From an eligibility standpoint, OVC opened the competition broadly. Eligible applicants include various levels of government (state, county, and city or township), independent school districts, public and private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, other tribal organizations, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status. The solicitation also allows for additional eligible entities under an "Others" category as clarified in the full text. This wide eligibility reflects the reality that large-scale national convenings are often managed by entities with conference administration capacity, established training networks, or a strong track record in victim services training and technical assistance.
Financially, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of $600,000 and anticipates making one award total, meaning a single recipient would be responsible for supporting the conference series across the 2022-2024 period within the scope and budget approved by OVC. The activity category is listed under Income Security and Social Services, and the CFDA number associated with the program is 16.582, which corresponds to OVC victim assistance-related federal funding streams. The funding opportunity number is O-OVC-2021-92008. The solicitation was created on May 3, 2021, with an original application closing date of June 17, 2021.
Overall, this grant opportunity is essentially about national capacity-building for the administrators who run VOCA victim assistance and victim compensation programs. By funding a coordinated three-year series of national training conferences, OVC is supporting a consistent, structured mechanism for training, cross-state collaboration, and the spread of effective administrative and program practices that can improve how victim services and compensation benefits are delivered across the country.Apply for O OVC 2021 92008
- The Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY 2021 National Joint Training Conference for VOCA Victim Assistance and Victim Compensation Administrators (2022-2024)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.582.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 03, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 17, 2021. (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 $600,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, 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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