OVC FY 2018 Comprehensive Services for Victims of All Forms of Human Trafficking

By statute, grants under this program may be awarded to states, territories, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), and nonprofit (defined as an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 and is exempt from taxation under 501 (a) of such title), nongovernmental organizations (including tribal nonprofits). For the purposes of this program, a unit of local government is any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a state, territory, or federally recognized Indian tribal government. All recipients and subrecipients must forgo any profit or management fee.OVC may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2018 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations. Nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. § 511(a) are not eligible to apply.OVC 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 subrecipients (“subgrantees"). The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire project. Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered. An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application. Current OVC trafficking victim services grantees who received funding from the OVC FY 2016 or 2017 Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking Solicitation and the FY 2016 or 2017 Comprehensive Services for Victims of Human Trafficking Solicitation are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation, unless the new proposal includes a distinct geographic scope not included in the FY 2016 or 2107 application.