OVC FY24 Invited to Apply – Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance – Oxford, MI – Invited to Apply | O OVC 2025 172265

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2025 172265

This grant opportunity comes from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), and it is specifically an invited-to-apply award under the Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) for Oxford, Michigan. AEAP is designed to help communities respond when an incident of mass criminal violence or domestic terrorism creates victim service needs that are simply too large or complex for the jurisdiction to handle quickly and thoroughly with the resources it already has, while still meeting the needs of other crime victims. The funding is drawn from the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve, which OVC uses to provide supplemental support in extraordinary situations rather than to replace routine victim service funding.

The program’s purpose is to deliver targeted, incident-driven assistance that directly benefits victims. OVC describes four AEAP grant categories that can be requested separately or combined into one application: crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. In practical terms, this structure allows funding to cover the immediate aftermath (for example, emergency victim assistance and stabilization), longer-term recovery needs (such as counseling and ongoing support services), help that enables victims to participate meaningfully in the justice process (including victim advocacy and related supports), and supplemental funding for state victim compensation programs that reimburse eligible victims for out-of-pocket expenses tied to the victimization.

A key requirement is that AEAP dollars must be clearly justified as supplemental. The application must show that existing resources (including typical state and local victim assistance capacity and standard VOCA-funded programming) are not enough to address the incident’s victim needs in a timely and comprehensive way. OVC also emphasizes that it generally reserves AEAP for incidents that are unusually large in scope for the affected area and often involve unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broadly targeted harm, or some other unique aspect that distinguishes the event from more foreseeable patterns of violence. For more predictable forms of ongoing violence such as gang-related incidents, domestic violence, or broader community gun violence, OVC signals that states and communities are ordinarily expected to rely on existing VOCA resources rather than AEAP.

Funds under this opportunity can be used retroactively to the date of the incident, which is important for jurisdictions that had to mobilize quickly and incur costs before federal support could be arranged. The intent is to reimburse or support eligible expenses tied specifically to responding to the incident’s victims, not general public safety operations or unrelated services. OVC may also offer no-cost consultant support to help the invited applicant develop and submit the AEAP application, which can be useful given the documentation burden involved in demonstrating need, supplementality, and victim-focused outcomes.

Administratively, this is a discretionary grant (not a formula award) and it is not a competitive Notice of Funding Opportunity in the usual sense. OVC will contact potential applicants directly, and the listing indicates a single expected award. The opportunity is associated with Assistance Listing (CFDA) 16.321 and is categorized under income security and social services. The maximum award amount shown is $7,288,972, with an application closing date of October 11, 2024. The funding opportunity number is O-OVC-2025-172265, and the sponsoring agency is the Office for Victims of Crime.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY24 Invited to Apply – Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance – Oxford, MI – Invited to Apply" 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 2024-10-10.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-10-11. (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 $7,288,972.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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