Deadline: January 23, 2025
Eligible Entities:  State, County, City or township, special district, county governments, Tribal organization/governments, Nonprofits, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
Description:  ​AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is a person who does community service through AmeriCorps.

Deadline: February 2, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $275,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: (1) Owners/Operators of a utility scale ESS or a facility sited ESS that is 100 kW or greater in size, such as those used to support commercial, industrial, and public service facilities, (2) a host site entity with access to a utility scale or facility sited ESS that is 100 kW or greater in size,(3) an entity with an agreement to access a utility scale or facility sited ESS that is 100 kW or greater in size.
Description: Blue-Sky Training Program for Grid Scale Energy Storage Systems aims to enhance community safety for utilities with Energy Storage Systems. As storage technologies continue to be deployed, it is critical that communities are storage ready and that necessary stakeholders are brought to the table to ensure a new or existing Energy Storage Systems will operate safely and reliably. In localities across the country, uncertainty over proper response procedures to security threats and unanticipated failures of Energy Storage Systems can delay or even prevent deployment.

Deadline:  February 5, 2025
Award Amount:  Up to $400,000 for up to 36 months
Match:  None
Eligible Entities:  State, County, City or township, special district, county governments, Tribal organization/governments, Nonprofits, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
Description: With this funding opportunity, OJJDP seeks to implement youth defense system efforts that strengthen and improve the representation of youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This program supports organizations providing public defense services through a combination of direct grants and national training and technical assistance to implement sustainable system improvements that result in improved youth outcomes, reduced recidivism, safer communities, cost savings, and increased public confidence in the juvenile justice system. ​Studies and numerous state assessments conducted by national organizations reveal that nearly every state falls short of its constitutional obligation to provide effective legal representation for children. Few children in this country currently receive access to a qualified youth defender. ​

Deadline: February 13, 2025 in Grants.gov, February 26, 2025 in NEA Applicant Portal
Award Amount: $10,000 to $150,000 depending on eligibility
Match: Yes, 50% or 1:1 non-federal share required
Eligible Entities: Tribal organization/governments, school districts, higher education institutions, non-profits, and states or local government
Description:
The NEA is committed to supporting arts projects for the benefit of all Americans. Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides funding for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector. We welcome applications from first-time and returning applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets.
We fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Media Arts, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts.

Deadline: Concept Papers February 14, 2025 Full Application May, 2 2025
Award Amount: $1,000,000 to $3,000,000
Match: At least 20% for R&D; None for education and outreach projects; Tribes 10% required cost share
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This NOFO is being issued by DOE’s EERE SETO to invest in R&D, technical assistance, and stakeholder engagement activities that improve the compatibility of large-scale solar (LSS) facilities with
wildlife and facilitate the dual use of land for agricultural and solar energy production (agrivoltaics).
Projects selected in this NOFO will a) test strategies that mitigate adverse impacts and/or maximize benefits to wildlife and ecosystems at LSS facilities, b) provide technical assistance and engagement
opportunities that enable stakeholders to improve the compatibility of LSS facilities with wildlife, or c) provide technical assistance and stakeholder engagement opportunities related to agrivoltaics.

Deadline:  February 19, 2025
Award Amount:  Up to $1,000,000 for up to 36 months
Eligible Entities:  State, County, City or township, county governments, Tribal organization/governments.
Description:  This funding opportunity seeks to build the capacity of states, state and local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to implement new and innovative approaches to enhance existing juvenile drug treatment courts (JDTC) and improve outcomes for youth with substance use disorder or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, including those with histories of trauma.

Deadline: Concept paper February 27, 2025, Full application August 28, 2025
Award Amount: $2,000,000 to $50,000,000
Match: 5% to 50% depending on applicant and project type
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, & Small Businesses
Description: Rural and remote areas often have higher energy costs and burden, less resilient energy systems, and fewer alternatives for accessing clean energy compared with their urban counterparts. Furthermore, small communities do not always have the available time, money, or other resources to pursue clean energy options. This program serves communities of 10,000 people or fewer. Applicants must propose projects that support at least one of these eligible activities: A. Improving overall cost-effectiveness of energy generation, transmission, or distribution systems; B. Siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines; C. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation in rural or remote areas; D. Providing or modernizing electric generation facilities; E. Developing microgrids; and F. Increasing energy efficiency.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 to $50,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The Recreation and Visitor Services Program provides a wide variety of recreational opportunities that benefit the public and local communities. The program is also responsible for implementing Administration and Department priorities, including projects to improve racial equity, diversity and inclusion; help strengthen the U.S. economy; and reduce impacts to the environment and climate. The program is also prioritizing implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act; the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; the Great American Outdoors Act; the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act; Executive Order (E.O.) 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government; and E.O. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.In fiscal year 2025, the BLM will support the Department’s priorities by focusing on projects that build healthy communities and economies, advance environmental justice, address the climate crisis, and provide safe and equitable access to outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans. These projects will:Connect with youth, tribes, and underserved communities to foster public lands stewardship.Enhance access to quality outdoor recreation activities while promoting climate resiliency.Identify and remove barriers to outdoor recreation and expand recreation opportunities for all.Provide an enhanced, more sustainable recreational experience by delivering up-to-date and engaging visitor information online and in person.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 to $800,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The BLM New Mexico Threatened and Endangered Species Program has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to assist with:Contributing to the above-described Program strategic goals.On-the-ground actions that conserve and recover federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare wildlife and plants.Targeted inventory and monitoring to determine species status and conservation opportunities.Gaining knowledge about federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare species and their habitats including, but not limited to, propagation, genetics, ecology and threats.Providing for proactive protection or management of federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare species and their habitats, consistent with ESA section 7a1.Augmenting federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare species through translocations, seed collections, and/or propagation.Increasing program efficiencies and effectiveness in Endangered Species Act (ESA) section 7a2 consultations and ESA section 7a1 conservation programs.Increasing public knowledge of federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare wildlife and plants on BLM managed lands, including with a targeted focus on communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities.Communications including program outreach, education, and Program website updates.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 to $500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The BLM New Mexico Plant Conservation and Restoration Program is especially focused on projects that:protect biodiversity;increase resilience to climate change and help leverage natural climate solutions;contribute to conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by the year 2030;engage communities of color, low income families, and rural and indigenous communities to enhance economic opportunities related to native seed production and restoration;and use the best science and data available to make decisions. Native plants and native plant communities are the true green infrastructure we rely upon to sustain healthy, bio-diverse ecosystems. Without native seed we do not have the ability to restore functional ecosystems after natural disasters and mitigate the effects of climate change.The BLM New Mexico has opportunities to work with partner organizations to do activities such as:Reduce the threats to sage grouse, rare plants, and other sensitive species in high priority habitats by supporting efforts to restore habitat for keystone wildlife and pollinator .Working with growers to develop genetically appropriate native plant material for use in habitat restoration and rehabilitation.Support studies to improve the effectiveness of conservation restoration efforts in areas such as plant ecological, plant genetics, and ecophysiological studies, seed bank persistence, plant propagation and development of agronomic production practices, and trait and/or seed source evaluations as well as seeding treatment and tool development.Support pollinator studies and projects on the importance of native plant communities and pollinators to restoration durability and ecological function. Implement conservation actions for high priority rare plant speciesIncrease understanding of rare plant biology and threats.Monitor, protect, and restore habitat that supports more than 1,800 rare plant species, more than 300 of which are found exclusively on BLM lands.Develop strategies to encourage the use of native plant materials that are genetically appropriate for restoration and reclamation across all BLM associated programs such as Wildlife, Oil & Gas, Minerals, Fuels, Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation, Range, and Renewable Energy;Increase Citizen Science through expanding public education programs on native plants and native plant communities through development of technical guidance, videos, native plant guides and floras, workshops, webinars, and apps.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $250,000 to $1,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This program supports projects funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Public Law 117-169, Subtitle B- National Resources, Sections 50221, NPS and Public Lands Conservation and Resilience, and 50222, NPS and Public Lands Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration. This program supports projects funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Sections 50221 Resilience, 50222 Ecosystems Restoration and 50303 DOI.Mitigation measures are implemented through core programs such as: the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program, which addresses physical safety hazards and contamination posing risk to human health and/or the environment through remediation and restoration of abandoned hardrock mines, and releases of hazardous substances, and educational outreach about the potential dangers posed to the public and recreation activities.The AML program identifies and inventories abandoned hardrock mines, prioritizes those mines that pose a risk to public safety, human health, and the environment, and seeks funding to address those high risk mine features and sites. Specifically, the AML program addresses physical safety hazards through a variety of closure methods including fencing, signing, back filling, installation of bat-friendly grates, etc., and addresses risks to human health and the environment through a variety of removal and remedial response actions. The AML and Natural Resource Damage and Restoration (NRD) programs also work to restore abandoned hardrock mines sites and restore the Nation’s watersheds impacted by abandoned mines through a risk-reduction based watershed approach that uses partnerships to effectively leverage funding and facilitate projects; and reduces environmental degradation caused by abandoned mines to ensure compliance with all applicable soil, water, and air quality standards, and applicable Federal, State, Tribal, and local laws and regulations. For the NRD program, and any actions taken pursuant to BLM’s authority under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, potentially responsible parties must be investigated.The BLM estimates there are over 130,000 abandoned mine features located on BLM-administered land, many of which will need mitigation to protect human health and the environment, increase public safety and reduce environmental liabilities by eliminating or minimizing risk. In compliance with all applicable soil, water and air quality standards, and Federal State, Tribal and local laws and regulations, the BLM seeks to develop partnerships with States, local governments, Tribal Nations, and voluntary environmental and citizen groups. In addition, BLM seeks to return lands to productive uses including, but not limited to, recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and preservation of historical/cultural resources. These partnerships will provide financial assistance, through cooperative agreements to protect surface water, groundwater, soil, sediment and air from abandoned mine sites, address releases of hazardous substances, safeguard dangerous mine sites, and restore sites.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 to $500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Eligibility is restricted to U.S. local governments that provide fire protection and other emergency services and are in need of slip-on tankers to improve the wildland firefighting readiness for their area of protection and service a location with a population of 50,000 or less.
Description: Climate change is driving the devastating intersection of extreme heat, drought, and wildland fire danger across the United States, creating wildfires that move with a speed and intensity previously unseen. This has created conditions in which wildfires overwhelm response capabilities, resulting in billions of dollars in economic losses, damage to natural resources, devastation to communities, and the tragic loss of human life.The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), enacted in November 2021, is bringing much-needed support to communities across the country to increase the resilience of lands facing the threat of wildland fires and to better support federal wildland firefighters. The BIL provides funding and authorizes the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to develop and implement a pilot program to provide local governments with financial assistance to acquire slip-on tanker units to establish fleets of vehicles that can be quickly converted to be operated as fire engines. The objective of this opportunity is to provide funding for these units that meet the required minimum specifications

Deadline: February 28, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $250,000 for CWPP update and $10,000,000 for CWPP project
Match: 10% for CWPP updates and 25% for CWPP projects
Eligible Entities: State forestry agencies, local or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, and Nonprofits.
Description: The purpose of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant is to assist at-risk local communities and Indian Tribes with planning for and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire. There are two primary project types for which the grant provides funding: The development and revising of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP), and the implementation of projects described in a CWPP that is less than ten years old. The Act prioritizes at-risk communities that are in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential, are low-income, and/or have been impacted by a severe disaster.

Deadline: March 6, 2025
Award Amount: $50,000 to $1 million
Match: Minimum 15% non-federal match cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, local governments, federally recognized tribes, nonprofits, businesses
Description: This competitive program helps rural communities use advanced telecommunications technology to connect to each other – and the world – overcoming the effects of remoteness and low population density. We encourage you to consider projects that promote equity and economic opportunity in rural America, specifically those that advance these key priorities:
– Assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities and through improved infrastructure.
– Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to Rural Development programs and benefits from Rural Development funded projects; and
– Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities.
Funds can be used to purchase or support:
– Limited technical assistance and instruction on how to use distance learning and telemedicine equipment
– Audio, video, and interactive video equipment
– Broadband facilities used for distance learning or telemedicine (up to a certain percentage)
– Computer hardware, network components, and software
– Instructional programming

Deadline: March 06, 2025
Award Amount: $200,000 to $325,000
Match: 1:1 non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses, and Individuals
Description: The purpose of the Crop Protection and Pest Management program is to address high priority issues related to pests and their management using IPM approaches at the state, regional and national levels. The CPPM program supports projects that will ensure food security and respond effectively to other major societal pest management challenges with comprehensive IPM approaches that are economically viable, ecologically prudent, and safe for human health. The CPPM program addresses IPM challenges for emerging issues and existing priority pest concerns that can be addressed more effectively with new and emerging technologies. The outcomes of the CPPM program are effective, affordable, and environmentally sound IPM practices and strategies needed to maintain agricultural productivity and healthy communities. ​

Deadline: March 10, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000 to $250,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, school districts, nonprofits, Businesses
Description: The primary goal of the UAIP projects is to support the development of urban agriculture and innovative production. The UAIP grants being made available for application under this NFO support planning and implementation activities. Planning activities will initiate, develop, or support the efforts of farmers, gardeners, citizens, government officials, schools, members of tribal communities, and other stakeholders in areas where access to fresh foods are limited or unavailable. Implementation activities will accelerate existing and emerging models of urban and/or innovative agricultural practices that serve multiple farmers or gardeners. Innovation may include new and emerging, as well as indigenous or non-traditional agricultural practices.

Deadline: March 11, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $1,000,000
Match: 50% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Public and Indian Housing Authorities
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal governments to improve reentry and reduce recidivism by expanding and/or increasing access to housing for people who are currently or formerly involved in the criminal justice system. Prior to release from incarceration, people will be screened, assessed, and identified for program participation. The program will help jurisdictions assess their reentry systems, identify strengths and gaps, and then build capacity for improved housing options for adults released from prison or jail.

Deadline: March 18, 2025 in Grants.gov; March 25, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $312,500 for 36 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.
Category 1: Training Program for Law Enforcement Officers
Category 2: Training Program for Correctional Officers

Deadline: March 11, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $400,000 per agreement for a project that can be completed within 2 years.
Match: A non-Federal cost-share of 25 or 50 percent depending on the type of project.
Eligible Entities: Category A: States, Indian Tribes, irrigation districts, water districts, and other organizations with water or power delivery authority. Category B: Universities, nonprofit research institutions, federally funded research and development centers, and non-profit entities (including 501[c][3] organizations) that are acting in partnership with and with the agreement of an entity described in Category A.
Description: The objective of this NOFO is to invite eligible non-Federal entities to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on applied science projects (Project) to improve access to and use of hydrologic data, develop and improve water management tools, improve modeling and forecasting capabilities. Results from these projects will be used by water managers to increase water supply reliability, provide flexibility in water operations, improve water management, and support nature-based solutions. Project results must be readily applicable by managers—resulting in tools and information that can be used to support: water supply reliability, water delivery management, water marketing activities, drought management activities, conjunctive use of ground and surface water, water rights administration, ability to meet endangered species requirements, watershed health, conservation and efficiency, support for nature-based solutions and other water management objectives.In general, under this NOFO, Reclamation will provide funding for applied science projects to develop or improve hydrologic information, water management tools, modeling and forecasting capabilities, and improve nature-based solution decisions. Results from these Projects will be used by water managers to increase water supply reliability, provide flexibility in water operations, and improve water management.Proposed projects will be reviewed by the Program Office to determine whether the project type is eligible for evaluation.

Deadline: March 17, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $75,000 per year for up to five years
Match: Yes, 200% or 1:2 match is required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The program goal is to support community-based projects to improve access to one or more of the following in underserved communities:
• Children’s behavioral health screening and referrals.
• Children’s immunizations.
• Adolescents’ well-visits.
The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance include:
• Implement an evidence-informed or evidence-based preventive clinical or public health community-based project with at least one measurable outcome that aligns with your selected child health topic.
• Build or strengthen at least three partnerships with maternal and child health (MCH) programs, including one partnership with a HRSA Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant recipient.
• Engage people with lived experience in the advisory board and project activities.
• Develop a sustainability plan to support MCH population health improvements that includes at least three community partnerships and at least one funding strategy.

Deadline: March 18, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $250,000
Match: Encouraged but not required
Eligible Entities: NM State agencies, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments
Description: This grant program provides grants for the restoration, preservation, stabilization, protection and interpretation of significant cultural properties in New Mexico. Properties need to be listed in the State Register of Cultural Properties (SRCP) or National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) OR be eligible for listing in the NRHP/SRCP.

Deadline: March 18, 2025
Award Amount: $555,000 per year for 4 years
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, and Nonprofits
Description: The purpose of the Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) program is to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses). The program uses comprehensive, evidence-based strategies to provide more inclusive and culturally aligned nursing education environments that will support students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Program goals include:
• Increase the number of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including ethnic and racial minorities underrepresented among registered nurses, who are enrolled in nursing degree programs, using evidence-based strategies such as holistic admissions as a best practice.
• Increase the number of nursing students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are retained and graduate from nursing degree programs.
• Increase the number of nursing students from disadvantaged backgrounds who receive academic and social support for educational success in nursing degree programs.

Deadline: March 21, 2025, accepted on a rolling basis beginning January 21, 2025
Award Amount: $25,000 to $500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Community-based organizations, non-profits, and foundations
Description: OBAE will award the funds to New Mexico entities to implement digital inclusion activities. Eligible activities under this grant may include digital skills activities, digital navigator activities, device distribution activities, technical support, and capacity-building. To receive a PINON Grant, subgrantees must engage individuals from one or more of eight covered populations identified in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.
These include: Incarcerated individuals, Households with incomes below 150% of the poverty line, Seniors, Veterans, Individuals with disabilities, Individuals facing language barriers, Members of racial and ethnic minority groups, Residents who live in rural areas

Deadline: March 27, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 3, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Category 1: $2,000,000; Category 2: $1,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Independent School Districts, Public charter schools, private K-12 schools
Description: This funding opportunity aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence.

Deadline: March 27, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 3, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $833,000 for 36 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to enhance corrections and community supervision systems and community-based providers’ capacity to address the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support needs of people during incarceration and upon reentry. The goals of this program are to support the implementation or expansion of evidence-based and trauma-informed SUD treatment programming, as well as to promote the implementation of deflection as part of the treatment and recovery safety net, which helps persons in treatment stay in treatment, and prevents further and unnecessary contact with the criminal justice system.

Deadline: March 31, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000 per finalist and $50,000 Grant Prize
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, and County Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits,
Description: The Access to Justice Prize is a prize competition to promote innovative solutions to address the access to justice crisis. The 2025 Prize will focus on solutions that impact rural communities. In line with this purpose, the Access to Justice Prize invites community-based and non-profit organizations; academic institutions; and local, state, tribal and territorial governments—including courts, public defender offices, and prosecutorial agencies—to submit proposals for an innovative idea to expand access to justice. The Access to Justice Prize competition has a one-year prize cycle, from January to December, with two judging rounds. At the first round, a number of finalists will be selected and awarded a finalist prize of $5,000. The finalists will further develop their submission during a six-month Refinement Phase and will then compete in a final round judging competition—the Access to Justice Prize Showcase—for the grand prize of $50,000. Judging criteria for the finalist selection phase of the challenge are as follows:
Engagement: Does the submission reflect engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including communities or organizations that represent people likely to be impacted by the proposal, or demonstrate a plan to ensure such engagement?
Innovation: Does the submission reflect a creative, new proposed idea for a solution to pressing barriers to equal access to justice that has not been done within the applicant’s jurisdiction, even if it has been done in other jurisdictions?
Implementation, Feasibility, and Sustainability: Does the submission include an implementation plan? Does the submission reflect data and/or analysis of potential barriers and strategic efforts to mitigate those barriers?  Does the submission address how the solution will be sustained?
Clear Goal and Measures for Success: Does the submission include a clear goal or outcome sought to expand access to justice for rural communities? Would the proposed impact be significant and long-term? Does the submission establish methods to determine impact or success both in the short-term and long-term?  How will implementation processes and outcomes be documented?

Deadline: April 3, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 10, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $550,000 for 36 months
Match: 20% non-federal cost share required for Y1 & 2; 40% for Y3
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). The goal is to improve safety and well-being for adults with MHDs (including people with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder) or MHSUDs who come into contact with the criminal justice system.

Deadline: April 03, 2025
Award Amount: $200,000 to $750,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, and special districts. Projects are not eligible if they are in a Census Bureau 2020 designated urban area that has a population of more than 150,000 people.
Description: The BIL created the Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program, which makes $10 million available over five years to provide states, local governments, and tribal governments with grants to support project development leading to future applications to DOT credit or grant programs. The grants can support legal, technical, and financial advisors to help advance infrastructure projects. The first notice of funding opportunity includes two fiscal years and makes $3.4 million available to eligible applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. Eligible project sponsors may receive grant funds to select advisors to assist with pre-development-phase activities, including: evaluation opportunities for private financing and project bundling, feasibility studies, project planning, revenue forecasting and funding and financing options analyses, preliminary engineering and design work, environmental review, economic assessments and cost-benefit analyses, public benefits studies, statutory and regulatory framework analyses, value-for-money (VFM) studies, and evaluations of costs to sustain the project.

Deadline: April 3, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000,000 available for projects up to 60 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses, Independent school districts
Description: This funding opportunity seeks rigorous, applied evaluative research on: (1) police conduct and police-community interactions; (2) officer safety, health, and wellness; (3) criminal investigations; and (4) alternative traffic enforcement models. NIJ also welcomes investigator-initiated proposals in other policing topics.

Deadline: April 7, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 14, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: $2,500,000 for 48 months
Match: 25% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Housing Authorities
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to assist states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of adult treatment courts including management and service coordination for treatment court participants, fidelity to the adult treatment court model, and recovery support services.

Deadline: April 7, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to fund applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in four topical areas: (1) evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults; (2) research on financial fraud against older adults, including knowledge building around scam prevention messaging; (3) research on formal and informal caregivers who abuse (either financially, physically, sexually, and/or emotionally) or neglect older adults, to inform intervention and prevention program development; and (4) forensic research involving the development of radiographic evidence and bioinformatic approaches relevant to the physical abuse of older adults.

Deadline: April 7, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 14, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Category 1: Up to $2,000,000; Category 2: Up to $2,000,000; Category 3: Up to $4,000,000; Category 4: Up to $4,000,000 for 48 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Businesses
Description: With this funding opportunity, the Office of Justice Programs seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime through comprehensive, evidence-informed violence intervention programs focused on those at highest risk. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence using community violence intervention strategies based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders. BJA is administering the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), working in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office for Victims of Crime.

Deadline: April 10, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 17, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000 for 36 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Housing Authorities, Businesses
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes. The Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to accomplish this by promoting collaborations with the field to identify, define, and respond to emerging or chronic crime problems or justice system challenges.

Deadline: April 10, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $550,000 for 36 months
Match: 20% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, and Higher Education Institutions
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations between law enforcement and behavioral health agencies to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people who qualify with behavioral health needs. The goal is to implement deflection and diversion programs at first contact, such as crisis response and intervention teams, co-responders and other collaborative model approaches. The program focuses on improving safety and well-being for people with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Eligible entities can prepare, create, or expand collaborative projects.

Deadline: April 10, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $550,000 for up to 36 months
Match: 20% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). The goal is to improve safety and well-being for adults with MHDs (including people with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder) or MHSUDs who come into contact with the criminal justice system.