OVC FY 2018 Initiative to Enhance Crime Victims' Rights Enforcement and Victim Access to Legal Assistance

Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations), faith-based and community-based organizations, colleges or universities (including tribal institutions of higher education), and public agencies, federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), or tribal organizations. Applicants should be able to demonstrate: (1) the capacity to competitively award subgrants to individual legal clinics; (2) the ability to provide programmatic, financial and administrative oversight and support to multiple legal clinics; (3) the knowledge and understanding of the enforcement of crime victims’ rights; (4) the experience in providing legal counsel and crime victims’ rights enforcement services for victims in criminal cases, and providing civil legal assistance to victims of crime in collateral legal matters; (5) sufficient staff resources and the capability to fulfill the objectives required by this project; and (6) the capacity to carry out the objectives of this program as a stand-alone program. All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) 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.