OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program | O OVW 2025 172293

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (often referred to as the EM Program) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). It is one of two funding opportunities released under the larger Consolidated Youth and Engaging Men (CYEM) Program umbrella. The core goal of this specific program is prevention: it supports efforts that actively engage men and youth as partners in stopping domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking before harm occurs, rather than focusing only on response after an incident.

This opportunity is designed for a wide range of community-based and government organizations that can reach men and young people and influence norms, behaviors, and peer culture in practical ways. Eligible applicants include units of local government such as cities and counties, and agencies within local government such as police departments or parks and recreation departments. It also welcomes nonprofit and nongovernmental entities (including both 501(c)(3) organizations and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status), victim service providers, and faith-based organizations. In addition, federally recognized Indian Tribal governments and Tribal organizations (including those that are not themselves federally recognized tribal governments) are eligible to apply. The breadth of eligibility reflects OVW's expectation that effective prevention work often requires collaboration across systems like public safety, community services, youth-serving organizations, and culturally specific providers.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is categorized as a grant (funding instrument type: Grant) and sits within the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity area. The Assistance Listing/CFDA number associated with the program is 16.888. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2025-172293. OVW anticipates making around 10 awards under this solicitation, with an award ceiling of $350,000 per award, meaning individual awards are not expected to exceed that amount. The original application closing date is July 8, 2025, and the opportunity was created/posted on May 22, 2025, which gives applicants a defined window to develop partnerships, assemble required application materials, and propose a prevention strategy that aligns with the program's intent.

In practical terms, applicants should view this grant as support for initiatives that mobilize men and youth to play a proactive role in preventing violence and stalking. While the notice summary does not list specific required activities, OVW prevention-oriented programs typically prioritize approaches that are community-driven, culturally responsive, and rooted in evidence-informed strategies that can influence attitudes and behaviors. Competitive proposals generally demonstrate a clear prevention framework, meaningful engagement of the intended populations (men and youth), and strong coordination among partners such as schools, youth programs, victim service organizations, and local government or tribal entities, depending on the setting and target community.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.888.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-07-08. (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 $350,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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, Others.

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