OVC FY24 Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Santa Clara - Invited to Appl | O OVC 2024 172186

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The OVC FY24 Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) opportunity for Santa Clara is a discretionary federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), designed to help a community respond when a single incident of mass criminal violence or domestic terrorism creates victim needs that exceed what the jurisdiction can reasonably cover with its existing victim service and compensation resources. The program is funded through the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve and is meant to function as a supplemental, surge-type funding source when an incident is so large or complex that the local or state system cannot simultaneously meet the needs of victims from that event and continue serving victims of other crimes in a timely, comprehensive way. This specific posting is an invitation to apply rather than an open, competitive solicitation, and OVC indicates it will contact the potential applicant directly.

AEAP support can cover multiple categories of assistance, and the grant structure allows an applicant to combine up to four different grant types into a single application depending on what the incident requires. Those four categories are crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. In practical terms, this means the funding can be used for immediate, short-term actions that stabilize victims in the aftermath of an event (crisis response), longer-term services that help victims and communities adapt and recover (consequence management), supports that help victims navigate and participate in investigations and court proceedings (criminal justice support), and supplemental resources for state crime victim compensation programs that reimburse eligible out-of-pocket expenses tied to the victimization (crime victim compensation). OVC also notes that, beyond grant dollars, it can provide non-grant training and technical assistance, and may even assign a no-cost consultant to help the invited applicant work through the AEAP application process.

A key feature of AEAP is that it is intended for incidents that are seemingly random or unpredictable in nature, and it is not meant to backfill ongoing, chronic violence challenges. The description is explicit that AEAP does not support victimization arising from disputes between individuals or groups, including gang-related violence, and it also does not support domestic violence or broader community gun violence. The expectation is that places with persistently higher crime rates rely on other funding streams, such as VOCA formula funding, to sustain routine victim services. In other words, AEAP is positioned as an emergency reserve tool for extraordinary events rather than a general-purpose victim services fund.

The opportunity emphasizes that requested funds must be justified as truly supplemental. Applicants are expected to show that the proposed AEAP-funded activities are directly tied to victims of the specific incident and that the costs are above and beyond what existing budgets, programs, or other funding sources can cover. Another important program detail is that AEAP funding is retroactive to the date of the incident, which can allow reimbursement for eligible costs incurred in the immediate response period, provided those costs are properly documented and meet program requirements.

For this Santa Clara invitation, the listing shows a single anticipated award with an award ceiling of $3,533,860. The opportunity is cataloged under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number 16.321, with an activity category of Income Security and Social Services, and the eligible applicant category is listed as "Others," reflecting that AEAP eligibility is tied to the type of entity and role in the response (for example, victim service entities and compensation administrative agencies) rather than a broad open competition. The opportunity number is O-OVC-2024-172186, and the original closing date shown is June 27, 2024. Because this is not a competitive solicitation and is invitation-based, the usual dynamics of competing proposals are not the focus; instead, the process centers on documenting the incident-driven need, demonstrating the resource gap, and laying out a credible plan and budget for delivering or reimbursing victim-focused services connected to the event.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY24 Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Santa Clara - Invited to Appl" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.321.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-06-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-27. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,533,860.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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