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Grants

Alcohol Traffic Safety and Drunk Driving Prevention Incentive Grants
Grant Details: Amount: FY 03 est $40,000,000 Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: To encourage States to adopt effective programs to reduce crashes resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol and other controlled substances.
Organization Information: Organization: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Website: http://www.fedmoney.com/grants/20601.htm
Contact Information: Contact Name: Contact Phone: (202) 366-2121
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/static/20601.htm

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Training Assistance
Grant Details: Amount: FY 04 est $2,500,000. Agencies will bear the cost of training on a reimbursable basis. Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: Training programs are conducted in the areas of: Identification of the Firearms Problem; Motives and Analysis of Applicable Federal, State and Local Laws; Laboratory Capability; Sources of Information; Interviewing; Investigative Techniques; and Case Management.
Organization Information: Organization: ATF National Academy Website: http://www.atf.gov
Contact Information: Contact Name: Peter Mastin Contact Phone: (912) 267-2251
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=676

BJA - Byrne Formula Grant Program
Grant Details: Amount: FY 04 est $482,928,400 Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: Funds may be used to support 29 purpose areas specified in the authorization legislation. Generally, funds may be used to provide additional personnel, equipment, facilities (including upgraded and additional law enforcement crime laboratories), personnel training and equipment for more widespread apprehension, prosecution and adjudication of persons who violate state and local laws relating to the production, possession and transfer of controlled substances and to improve the criminal justice system. The Act restricts the use of these funds for supplanting state and local funds and land acquisition, and construction other than penal or correctional facilities.
Organization Information: Organization: Office of Justice Programs Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bja
Contact Information: Contact Phone: (202) 514-6638
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=530

BJA - Indian Country Alcohol and Drug Prevention
Grant Details: Amount: FY 04 est $4,989,000 Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: These funds will be made available to federally recognized Tribal governments for the development and implementation of programs.
Organization Information: Organization: Office of Justice Programs Website: http://www.ojp.gov/bja
Contact Information: Contact Phone: (202) 514-5943
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=1556

BJA - Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program
Grant Details: Amount: FY 04 est $0 Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: Funds may be used for one or more of the following purpose areas: (1) Law enforcement support for hiring, training, and employing on a continuing basis new, additional law enforcement officers and necessary support personnel; paying overtime to presently employed law enforcement officers and necessary support personnel; and procuring equipment, technology, and other material directly related to basic law enforcement functions; (2) Enhancing security measures in and around schools, and in and around any other facility or location that the unit of local government considers a special risk for incidents of crime; (3) Establishing or supporting drug courts; (4) Enhancing the adjudication of cases involving violent offenders, including cases involving violent juvenile offenders. For the purposes of this program, violent offender means a person charged with committing a Part I violent crime under the Uniform Crime Reports; (5) Establishing a multijurisdictional task force, particularly in rural areas, composed of law enforcement officials representing units of local government; this task force will work with Federal law enforcement officials to prevent and control crime; (6) Establishing crime prevention programs involving cooperation between community residents and law enforcement personnel to control, detect, or investigate crime or the prosecution of criminals; and (7) Defraying the cost of indemnification insurance for law enforcement officers. Recipients may not expend funds provided under the Block Grants Program to purchase, lease, rent, or acquire any of the following: tanks or armored vehicles; fixed-wing aircraft; limousines; real estate; yachts; consultants; and vehicles not primarily used for law enforcement. In addition, Federal funds cannot be used to supplant State or local funds, but instead to increase the amount of funds that would be available otherwise from State and local sources.
Organization Information: Organization: Office of Justice Programs Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/llebg_app.html
Contact Information: Contact Phone: (202) 305-2088
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=540

BJA-Law Enforcement Block Grant Program
Grant Details: Amount: $80,000.00 Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: Looking to purchase an Emergency Response Vehicle and all required equipment(suits,testing equip.,containmant equip.,decontamination equip.) and training for 6 full time officers. We have a rail line that runs through the center of our city, and also has a switch, where there are train cars parked sometimes for days at a time. This is in close proximity to three schools, one of which is less than one hundred yards away from the rail line. We have no equipment or training in disaster response regarding some of the chemicals that could be released if a train derails or has an accident.
Organization Information: Organization: Office of Justice Programs Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/llebj_app.html
Contact Information: Contact Name: Capt. Eddie Gampher Contact Email: egampher@ev1.net Contact Phone: 281-689-3448
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=540

BJS - National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)
Grant Details: Amount: FY 04 est $38,000,000 Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: Allowable uses of funds are outlined in the NCHIP fiscal year 2001 Program Announcement expected for release in April 2001.
Organization Information: Organization: Criminal History Improvement Programs Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov
Contact Information: Contact Name: Carol Kaplan Contact Email: kaplanc@ojp.usdoj.gov Contact Phone: (202) 307-0759
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=518

BJS - National Incident Based Reporting System
Grant Details: Amount: FY 04 est $7,000,000. Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: To provide funding to jurisdictions for implementing the NIBRS. The NIBRS grants will be awarded to selected jurisdictions to develop or enhance records management systems that are NIBRS-compatible
Organization Information: Organization: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Website: http://www.usdoj.gov
Contact Information: Contact Name: Carol Kaplan Contact Email: kaplanc@ojp.usdoj.gov Contact Phone: (202) 307-0759
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=1440

Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities
Grant Details: Amount: FY 03 est $26,351,000. (Note: The funds in this program are also available for contracts. The amounts for contracts cannot be predetermined.) Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: To improve the national, State, community and family activities for the prevention, assessment, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect through research, demonstration service improvement, information dissemination, and technical assistance.
Organization Information: Organization: Children's Bureau Website: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb
Contact Information: Contact Phone: (202) 205-8914
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/static/93670.htm

BJS - Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies
Grant Details: Application Due Date: 01/01/2010	Description: Funds are to be used for a variety of activities in support of BJS's statistical programs including: to conduct data collection and processing activities; carry out statistical and methodological research; provide technical assistance to State, local, and tribal governments to develop their capabilities to produce justice statistics; and provide dissemination and clearinghouse services to data users.
Organization Information: Organization: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/funding.htm
Contact Information: Contact Name: Lisa Price-Grear Contact Email: price@ojp.usjoj.gov Contact Phone: (202) 616-3561
More Information: http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=1761

List of Grant sources

Link	Description
List of Police Grants available
Technology Transfer Program -	The U.S. Army Electronic Proving Ground, Special Programs Office administers the Technology Transfer Program on behalf of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center. In 1998, the Technology Transfer Program was enacted by Congress for state and local law enforcement. This program provides, at no cost to agencies, equipment and training for deployments and operations. All equipment is transferred to each recipient agency and becomes the permanent property of that organization.
Law Enforcement Guide to Grants	As the competition for obtaining law enforcement grants has increased during recent years, the available grant monies have decreased. Grants for police departments have been slowly become homeland security grants. This page is designed to be a resource for the law enforcement grant researcher and grant writer. We have assembled information on different methods for obtaining police and law enforcement grants as well as different sources of grant money.
Writegrant	Writing, Research, Project Development, Program Implementation, Audit Functions, Partnership Agreements, Program Grant Budget
COPS	The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
JUSTNET Justice Technology Information Network -	Looking for information on law enforcement or corrections technology? Start by exploring the NLECTC Virtual Library . The library contains NLECTC publications, technology project descriptions, funding sources, and more.
The Foundation Center	Updated weekly The Foundation Directory Online gives you immediate access to the most current funding information available. Search up to 80,000 in-depth grantmaker profiles, and more than half a million recently awarded grants. With links to foundation Web sites and the latest available 990-PFs, The Foundation Directory Online keeps your fundraising research up-to-date from just $19.95 a month!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy -	The Newspaper of the Nonprofit World
Office of Justice Programs -	Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Assistance -	Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice --developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime.
DOJ Grants	The Department offers funding opportunities to conduct research, to support law enforcement activities in state and local jurisdictions, to provide training and technical assistance, and to implement programs that improve the criminal justice system.
FCIC National Contact Center - Federal Loans, Grants, and Assistance	There are many advertisers and publishers who encourage the public to believe that it is impossible to obtain information on Federal grants and loans through the Federal Government itself. This is not true. It can be difficult, the search may be frustrating: there is help.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -	The site has valuable information and statistics to help you. As you use the site, you will learn the many ways NHTSA works to reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
National Institute of Justice -	NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels. NIJ's principal authorities are derived from the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended (see 42 USC § 3721-3723) and Title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
NCJRS Grants and Funding -	Identify funding opportunities and learn about the funding process.