OVC FY 17 Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking Competitive Solicitation by Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

Eligible applicants are law enforcement agencies and victim service providers located and operating within the community, jurisdiction, or geographic area of the human trafficking task force specified within the application. Eligible applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are members of a human trafficking task force that has been operating for at least one year prior to this application. The application must include a signed human trafficking task force Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that documents the formal partnerships involved in the task force and a commitment to combating all forms of trafficking (sex and labor) within the geographic area covered by the task force.

This funding announcement requires two separate but coordinated applications from each human trafficking task force seeking funding: one application from a lead state, local, or tribal law enforcement agency and one application from a lead victim service organization. The two applications must be developed in close collaboration with each other, and must be submitted as a pair, with each applicant naming the other as the primary partner.

Law enforcement and victim service provider applicants from task forces that received funding under this Enhanced Collaborative Model program in fiscal years (FY) 2015 and 2016 are not eligible to apply. Current OVC grantees funded under OVC FY 2016 Specialized Services or FY 2016 Comprehensive Services programs are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation, unless the new proposal outlines new services and cost items that were not included in the FY 2016 application. For additional information, see “What an Application Should Include” in Section D. Application and Submission Information.
OVC and BJA may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY17 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and the availability of appropriations.

Applicants that are nonprofit organizations must be organizations described in 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) and exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 501(a). Nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. § 511(a) are not eligible to apply.

Eligible applicants are law enforcement agencies and victim service providers located and operating within the community, jurisdiction, or geographic area of the human trafficking task force specified within the application. Eligible applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are members of a human trafficking task force that has been operating for at least one year prior to this application. The application must include a signed human trafficking task force Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that documents the formal partnerships involved in the task force and a commitment to combating all forms of trafficking (sex and labor) within the geographic area covered by the task force.

This funding announcement requires two separate but coordinated applications from each human trafficking task force seeking funding: one application from a lead state, local, or tribal law enforcement agency and one application from a lead victim service organization. The two applications must be developed in close collaboration with each other, and must be submitted as a pair, with each applicant naming the other as the primary partner.

Law enforcement and victim service provider applicants from task forces that received funding under this Enhanced Collaborative Model program in fiscal years (FY) 2015 and 2016 are not eligible to apply. Current OVC grantees funded under OVC FY 2016 Specialized Services or FY 2016 Comprehensive Services programs are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation, unless the new proposal outlines new services and cost items that were not included in the FY 2016 application. For additional information, see “What an Application Should Include” in Section D. Application and Submission Information.
OVC and BJA may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY17 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and the availability of appropriations.

Applicants that are nonprofit organizations must be organizations described in 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) and exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 501(a). Nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. § 511(a) are not eligible to apply.