OVC FY 2018 Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking

By statute, grants under this program may be awarded to states; units of local government; federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as recognized by the Secretary of the Interior); nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (including tribal nonprofit and nongovernment organizations); and state and local law enforcement agencies. 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 or territory. Eligible applicants are only law enforcement agencies and victim service providers located and operating within the community, jurisdiction, or geographic area of the human trafficking task force specified within the application. Additional eligibility requirements, per purpose area, can be found on pages 12–17. This funding announcement requires two separate but coordinated applications from each human trafficking task force seeking funding: one application from a lead state, local, or tribal law enforcement agency, and one application from a lead victim service organization. The two applications must be developed in close collaboration with each other, and must be submitted as a pair, with each applicant naming the other as the primary partner. Law enforcement and victim service provider applicants from task forces that received funding under this Enhanced Collaborative Model program in fiscal years (FY) 2016 and 2017 are not eligible to apply. Current OVC grantees funded under OVC FY 2016 or FY 2017 Comprehensive Services programs are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation, unless the new proposal outlines new services, cost items, or service areas that were not included in the FY 2016 or 2017 application. Applicants that are nonprofit organizations must be organizations described in 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) and exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 501(a). 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. Applicants that are nonprofit organizations must be organizations described in 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) and exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 501(a). 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.