Description
This page provides access to past funding opportunities from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
Use the search filters below to help you find specific solicitations. From the results, select a solicitation title to view details about the opportunity as well as any resulting awards made through the opportunity.
If you are looking for current opportunities available from BJA, see the Available Funding page.
FY24 Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) National Law Enforcement Survivor Support and National Firefighter and First Responder Survivor Support Programs Competitive Grant Solicitation
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support the families of fallen and catastrophically injured law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders by providing assistance with filing applications for federal benefits for line-of-duty deaths and catastrophic injuries.
FY24 Invited to Apply—Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance (EFLEA) Program 2
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This solicitation is exclusively for those who received a letter from BJA to apply.
FY24 Law Enforcement Innovation and Crime Reduction – Invited to Apply
Date Posted
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This solicitation is exclusively for those who received an invitation to apply from BJA.
FY24 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Program
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The Project Safe Neighborhoods Program brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.
FY24 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to enhance the capacity of regulatory and law enforcement agencies and public health officials to collect and analyze controlled substance prescription data and other scheduled chemical products through a centralized database administered by an authorized agency.
FY24 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes.
FY24 Extreme Risk Protective Order and Firearm Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Initiative – Invited to Apply
Date Posted
Closing Date
This solicitation is exclusively for those who received an invitation to apply from BJA.
FY24 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund four national training and technical assistance programs to support law enforcement and criminal justice stakeholders.
FY24 Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Training and Technical Assistance Solicitation
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks applications for training and technical assistance funding to strengthen and improve the representation of indigent defendants in criminal and indigent respondents in civil cause of action under jurisdiction of Indian tribes.
FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program
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Closing Date
With this solicitation, BJA, in coordination with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Victims of Crime, seeks applications to provide a range of training and technical assistance to grantees and the field at large under the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative.
FY24 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
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Closing Date
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to provide jurisdictions with resources to address unsubmitted sexual assault kits, improve investigations and prosecutions, provide sites with resources to collect DNA samples from qualifying individuals, and more.
FY24 Justice Systems and Behavioral Health – Invited to Apply
Date Posted
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This solicitation is exclusively for those who received an invitation to apply from BJA.
FY24 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
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This program is designed to assist jurisdictions in addressing hate crimes and to assist victims and communities that are facing an increase in hate crimes.
FY24 Visiting Fellows Program
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With this opportunity, BJA seeks to invest in current and future leaders in the criminal justice field to advance priority national policy issues and offer cross-developmental opportunities for Department of Justice staff and criminal justice practitioners and researchers.
FY24 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program Formula Solicitation
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This program provides funding for the creation and/or implementation of extreme risk protection order programs, state crisis intervention court proceedings, and related programs/initiatives.
FY24 John R. Justice (JRJ) Formula Grant Program
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This program provides funding to state agencies designated by the governor to improve the recruitment and retention of local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors.
FY24 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to make payments under the statutorily required State Criminal Alien Assistance Program to eligible states and units of local government that incur certain types of costs due to incarceration of “undocumented criminal aliens” during the July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, reporting period.
FY24 Smart Reentry: Housing Demonstration Program
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund state, local, and tribal governments to enhance or implement evidence-based activities or services to improve reentry and reduce recidivism by expanding and/or increasing access to housing for people who are currently or formerly involved in the criminal justice system.
FY24 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-level Training and Technical Assistance
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support training and technical assistance providers assisting states and jurisdictions to use the Justice Reinvestment Initiative to enhance the fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency of their criminal justice system.
FY24 The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia (such as Alzheimer’s disease) or developmental disabilities (such as autism) who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments.
FY24 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support the purchase and lease of body-worn cameras by publicly funded law enforcement and corrections agencies.
FY24 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program
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This program provides funding to eligible entities to expand upon the reporting, transportation, processing, and identification of missing persons and unidentified human remains cases in their jurisdictions, including migrants.
FY24 Training and Technical Assistance for Justice-Focused Community-Based Organizations
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This program provides for the development, operation, and management of a training and technical assistance program for justice-focused community-based organizations directly serving communities disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
FY24 National Public Safety Partnership—Capacity Building Grant Limited Competition Grant Solicitation
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This program provides funding for state and local prosecutors and local law enforcement agencies who have participated in the National Public Safety Partnership to secure resources that will help reduce crime and increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.
FY24 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks a training and technical assistance provider to help jurisdictions prevent and reduce overdose deaths as part of the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program.