E-ALERT: Volume 2, Number 4

IMPORTANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT

Helping Outreach Programs Expand (HOPE) II

John Gillis, Director of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) announces a new funding opportunity. OVC has allocated up to $3.0 million for Helping Outreach Programs to Expand II. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/dakit.htm#2 The purpose of this program is to support and improve the delivery of services to crime victims through subawards to small faith-based and/or community-based organizations, with an emphasis placed on supporting programs and organizations that have not received funding from the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, prior to the date of the solicitation. Funding will be provided to one pass-through organization. Interested applicants should register online with the Office of Justice Programs Grant Management System no later than April 18, 2005 and submit their applications by May 11, 2005.

For more information, we invite you to visit the Office for Victims of Crime website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc or the Task Force for Faith-based and Community Initiatives website, at www.usdoj.gov/fbci/.