Applications Due: Grants.gov: January 28, 2025, by 11:59 PM Eastern Time
JustGrants: January 30, 2025, by 8:59 PM Eastern Time

Description:

The Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program (LAV) is intended to increase the availability of legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by funding comprehensive legal services projects. The legal services projects should include organizations that have a mission and history of providing direct services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

Funding Title: OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program

Agency Name: DOJ, Office on Violence Against Women

Funding Opportunity Number: O-OVW-2025-172269

Funding Instrument Type: Grant

Express Language for Legal Aid: No, but civil and criminal legal assistance and direct legal services

Target Population: victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking

Expected Number of Awards: 46

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

Expected total Amount: $33,000,000

Award Ceiling: $900,000

Expected Award Period: 36 Months

Eligible Applicants:

Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Private institutions of higher education

Link to Full Announcement: Here 

Helpful resources

• For assistance with the requirements of this NOFO, email OVW and OVW.LAV@usdoj.gov. Alternatively, interested parties may call OVW at 202-307-6026.
  OVW.LAV@usdoj.gov
• View the National Legal Aid Resource Development Technical Assistance Project, which is co-sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense (SCLAID) and its Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives, the Management Information Exchange (MIE), the National Association of IOLTA Programs (NAIP), and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) http://ambar.org/abarray

Categories: Department of Justice, Domestic Violence, Express Language for Legal Aid, Native American, Native American Tribes or Tribal Organizations, Native Americans, Non-profit Organizations, Victims of Crime