OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative | O OVW 2025 172281

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), focused on improving how OVW-funded projects are carried out across the country. The central goal is to deliver direct training and technical assistance (often referred to as TTA) to both current and potential OVW grant recipients and their subrecipients, so they can plan, implement, and sustain projects supported with OVW funds more effectively. In practical terms, the initiative is meant to help programs translate grant funding into stronger real-world responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

A key emphasis of the initiative is capacity building for the professionals and organizations most involved in responding to these crimes. OVW is looking to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and operational readiness of civil and criminal justice system professionals as well as victim service providers nationwide. Another major theme is collaboration: the initiative is intended to foster partnerships among agencies and organizations, including partnerships that do not typically work together, with the idea that coordinated responses often lead to better victim safety, offender accountability, and system-wide improvements. This means applicants are generally expected to provide TTA that helps communities improve policies, practices, and cross-agency coordination, not just deliver one-off trainings.

Funding will be provided through cooperative agreements, which usually indicates a more active federal role than a standard grant. Under a cooperative agreement, OVW commonly has substantial involvement in guiding, coordinating, or shaping the funded work, such as aligning deliverables with OVW priorities, participating in planning, or requiring close coordination with other OVW-funded TTA providers. The funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, and the associated CFDA (Assistance Listing) number is 16.526.

Eligibility is broad in the listing, but the program description narrows the intended applicant pool. OVW states that eligible applicants for this TTA Initiative are national, Tribal, statewide, or other nonprofit organizations that can deliver TTA at a national level to current and potential OVW recipients and subrecipients throughout the United States and U.S. territories. The emphasis on national reach is important: applicants need to demonstrate they can serve a nationwide audience, which typically involves infrastructure, subject-matter expertise, staffing, and delivery methods that support work across multiple jurisdictions and regions. OVW also notes that, in rare circumstances, institutions of higher education, state/local/Tribal governments or agencies, or local nonprofits may be supported, but only if they can clearly document a strong track record of successfully providing national-level training and technical assistance.

Key opportunity details include an application closing date of March 18, 2025, and an award ceiling of $1,500,000. OVW anticipates making up to 66 awards, suggesting the initiative will fund a range of TTA providers rather than a single national center. The opportunity was created on January 16, 2025, and the funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2025-172281.

• 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 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.526.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-18. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 66 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, 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, Unrestricted.

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