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550850 - 2024 Project Safe Neighborhood - Northern District
Funding Opportunity Details

Project Safe Neighborhoods

Final Application Deadline: Apr 15, 2024 4:30 PM

Status Closed
Posted Date Feb 23, 2024 2:02 PM
Award Amount RangeNo Limit - $80,000.00
Project Dates 07/01/2024 - 06/30/2025
Award Announcement Date 05/30/2024
Categorical Area Justice, Prevention/Correction/Rehab,Justice, Youth,Law Enforcement
Recurring Opportunity Yes

Program Officer Dennis Wiggins
Phone (515) 725-0311 x
Email wiggins@dps.state.ia.us

Description

Description
GENERAL GRANT PROGRAM INFORMATION

The Project Safe Neighborhoods program is a federal grant program designed to address violent crime with an emphasis on gun and gang related crime. The PSN program provides funding to each of the 94 US Attorney districts to facilitate a coordinated response to the most critical violent crime problem in each district.

Each of the U.S. Attorneys have established district PSN workgroups who have developed a PSN grant action plan which includes funding priorities for the 2022 DOJ grant award. The U.S. Attorney has identified the Iowa Department of Public Safety, Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP) as the fiscal agent for the PSN program in the Northern District of Iowa.
1. in cooperation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, offer a competitive Project Safe Neighborhood funding opportunity. Through this funding opportunity, financial assistance is available to promote safe neighborhoods through a sustained reduction in violent crime, including, but not limited to, addressing criminal gangs and the felonious possession and use of firearms. The PSN program supports coordination, cooperation, and partnerships of local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve in a unified approach coordinated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Funding for this opportunity is available through of Iowa’s Project Safe Neighborhoods award. Approximately $80,000 will be committed in the Northern District.

Iowa Northern District PSN Priority Activities

The US Attorney, Northern District of Iowa has identified the following Priority Activities for this solicitation. Priority funding will be provided to projects which employ strategies that positively affect these broadly targeted activities:

● Equipment, services and technology for law enforcement

● Youth-serving organizations/agencies toward the operation/support of prevention programming, including critical thinking classes, mentoring initiatives and/or other programs aimed at promoting protective factors and positive youth development

● Mental health/social services assistance for at-risk individuals

● Crime prevention training, de-escalation training, and community policing training for law enforcement officers

● Gang task forces including enforcement and prevention activities

The U.S. Attorney’s PSN Task Force has identified Black Hawk County/Waterloo as an area of priority based on violent crime data. Applications serving Black Hawk County/Waterloo will receive priority consideration in the review process.

GRANT APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS
1. eligible to receive grant funds from ODCP include state and local units of government, Indian tribes, faith-based organizations and nonprofit entities. A local unit of government is defined as a city, county, town, township or other general-purpose political subdivision of a state and includes Indian tribes that perform law enforcement functions as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. A city or county must be the legal applicant and recipient on behalf of city and county departments. Iowa faith based and nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive grant funding, but application must be made through a state or local unit of government.
APPLICATION DEADLINE

Applications for 2024 PSN funding must be received by ODCP through Iowa’s enterprise grant management system (www.iowagrants.gov) by 4:30 p.m. April 15, 2024.

*Note: Registration with www.iowagrants.gov is required prior to submitting an application. Registration may take several business days to complete. Do not wait until the last minute to begin your application. Difficulty with registration will not be an appealable hardship.

Attachments

Description	File Name	Type	Size	Upload Date
Application Instructions N. District	PSN application instructions 2022 N Dist.pdf	pdf	279 KB	02/23/2024 02:13 PM
Draft Certified Assurance - Provided for information only. Successful applicants will sign certifications with their contract materials. Minor changes are expected for this funding cycle.	Certified Assurances June 2022.pdf	pdf	148 KB	02/19/2024 12:21 PM
Draft Standard Grant Conditions - Provided for information only. Successful applicants will sign conditions with their contract materials. Minor changes are expected for this funding cycle.	ODCP Standard Grant Conditions November 2023.pdf	pdf	427 KB	02/19/2024 12:20 PM

Website Links

Description	Link
Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy	https://odcp.iowa.gov/grants/project-safe-neighborhoods
http://crimesolutions.gov/	Bureau of Justice Assistance - Evidence Based Programming
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance	https://www.bja.gov/
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs - Financial Guide	https://ojp.gov/financialguide/doj/pdfs/DOJ_FinancialGuide.pdf

Funding Opportunity Details

550850 - 2024 Project Safe Neighborhood - Northern DistrictFunding Opportunity Details

Project Safe Neighborhoods

Final Application Deadline: Apr 15, 2024 4:30 PM

Description

550850 - 2024 Project Safe Neighborhood - Northern District
Funding Opportunity Details