Nonprofit / Community Organization

Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation

This competitive grant program provides funding to prevent and reduce crime and enhance the criminal justice system through innovative approaches that accelerate justice by identifying, defining, and responding to emerging or chronic crime problems and systemic issues.

STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance (STOP TTA) Program

This competitive grant program provides funding for establishing a Center to provide support, training and technical assistance for the STOP School Violence Program.

Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

This competitive grant program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety as well as responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

This competitive grant program provides funding to state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based activities or services to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) – research grants for preventing violence and violence related injury

The NCIPC funds research into gun violence prevention strategies. Funded research is detailed at this website.

Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

The Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety provides technical assistance to support States and school districts in the implementation of social and emotional learning evidence-based programs and practices.

STOP School Violence Program

This competitive grant program aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence.

Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

This program provides Congressionally-earmarked funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and to combat juvenile delinquency.