OJJDP FY 17 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation

Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories), units of local government, federally recognized tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations) and for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). For-profit organizations (as well as other recipients) must agree to forgo any profit or management fee (including tribal institutions of higher education). Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign institutions of higher education are not eligible to apply. This solicitation announces Category 1: Large-scale Research and/or Evaluation and Category 2: Small Studies and Analyses research studies. The categories differ in terms of the maximum budget amount and maximum project period duration that applicants may request. While applicants may submit more than one unique application under this solicitation, they may not submit the same application under both categories. Applicants must clearly indicate in their project abstract to which category they are applying. OJJDP welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (“subgrantees”). The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering funding and managing the entire research, including monitoring and appropriately managing any subawards (“subgrants”). OJJDP may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2017 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and the availability of appropriations.