See below for a list of all currently open OJP funding opportunities, with links to the full text of the solicitation where you can locate information on how to apply. We encourage you to check out the Applicant Resources section of the site for information and training on writing and submitting an application. If you are looking for funding opportunities released in previous years or that closed during the current fiscal year, go to the Past Funding Opportunities page.

• Open Solicitations: Solicitations are OJP's competitive and formula/block grant funding opportunity announcements.
• Open Challenges (none currently): Challenges are technical, scientific, ideation, and creative competitions where the U.S. government seeks innovative solutions from the public, bringing the best ideas and talent together to solve mission-centric problems.

Open Solicitations

Bureau of Justice Assistance

• Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Program; deadline: 4/6/2020
• Northern and Middle States Rural Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Grant Program; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Implementing the PREA Standards, Protecting Inmates, and Safeguarding Communities; deadline: 4/14/2020
• Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy; deadline: 4/14/2020
• John R. Justice Program; deadline: 4/20/2020
• Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities Program; deadline: 4/24/2020
• Correctional Adult Reentry Education, Employment, and Recidivism Reduction Strategies (CAREERRS) Program; deadline: 4/27/2020
• Improving Reentry for Adults with Substance Use Disorders Program; deadline: 4/27/2020
• National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative; deadline: 4/27/2020
• Gulf States Law Enforcement Technology Initiative; deadline: 4/28/2020
• Improving Community Supervision Outcomes Through Swift, Certain, and Fair Responses; deadline: 4/28/2020
• Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Building Capacity to Create Safer Communities; deadline: 4/28/2020
• Second Chance Act Training and Technical Assistance Program; deadline: 4/28/2020
• Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Violent Crime by Improving Justice System Performance; deadline: 5/1/2020
• National Community Courts Site-based and Training and Technical Assistance Initiative; deadline: 5/1/2020
• Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program; deadline: 5/4/2020
• Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism; deadline: 5/4/2020
• Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program; deadline: 5/4/2020
• Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies; deadline: 5/5/2020
• Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP); deadline: 5/5/2020
• Supporting Small and Rural Law Enforcement Agency Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program; deadline: 5/5/2020
• Academic-based Drug Field Testing and Training Initiative; deadline: 5/8/2020
• Safeguarding Correctional Facilities and Public Safety by Addressing Contraband Cellphones Program; deadline: 5/11/2020
• Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative; deadline: 5/11/2020
• Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program State Formula Solicitation; deadline: 5/11/2020
• Strategies for Policing Innovation; deadline: 5/12/2020
• Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program; deadline: 5/14/2020
• Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Program; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Innovative Prosecution Solutions Training and Technical Assistance Program; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program; deadline 5/18/2020
• Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program; deadline: 5/21/2020
• National Center on Restorative Justice; deadline: 5/21/2020
• Collaborative Mental Health and Anti-Recidivism Initiative; deadline: 5/22/2020
• Second Chance Act Evaluation Participation Support; deadline: 5/28/2020
• Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program; deadline: 5/29/2020
• Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Solicitation; deadline: 6/1/2020
• Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program; deadline: 6/9/2020
• Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative: Outcomes-based Contracting To Lower Recidivism and Address Substance Use Disorders Through Reentry and Housing Services; deadline: 6/9/2020
• Innovations in Community-Based Crime Reduction Program; deadline: 6/11/2020

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS) and National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP), Reference Years (RY) 2020-2024; deadline 4/14/2020
• FY 2020 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP); deadline: 4/16/2020
• Annual Surveys of Probation and Parole (ASPP), Reference Years (RY) 2020-2024; deadline 4/21/2020
• NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP); deadline: 4/23/2020
• State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers; deadline: 4/30/2020
• National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP) 2020; deadline: 6/2/2020

National Institute of Justice

• Research and Evaluation of Technology-Facilitated Abuse for Criminal Justice Purposes; deadline: 4/8/2020
• Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Research and Evaluation on Policing; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Research and Evaluation on School Safety; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Graduate Research Fellowship; deadline: 4/15/2020
• Native Student Travel Scholarship Program: Connecting Science to Crime and Justice; deadline: 4/15/2020
• Research and Evaluations of Victims of Crime; deadline: 4/20/2020
• Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime; deadline: 4/20/2020
• Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons; deadline: 4/20/2020
• Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals; deadline 4/20/2020
• Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System; deadline: 4/29/2020
• Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation; deadline: 5/4/2020
• Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives; deadline: 5/5/2020
• Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Research on Juvenile Reoffending; deadline: 5/18/2020 
• Assessing the Effectiveness of the Second Chance Act Grant Program: A Phased Evaluation Approach; deadline 5/26/2020
• Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime; deadline 5/26/2020
• National Youth Gang Survey; deadline 5/26/2020
• Research on Law Enforcement Responses to Sex Trafficking of Minors; deadline: 5/26/2020

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

• Enhancing Juvenile Indigent Defense; deadline: 4/6/2020
• National Gang Center; deadline: 4/6/2020
• Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program; deadline: 4/6/2020
• Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program Support; deadline: 4/6/2020
• Training and Technical Assistance To Expand Children's Advocacy Centers Serving American Indian/Alaska Native Communities; deadline: 4/7/2020
• Tribal Children's Advocacy Center Expansion Initiative for Child Abuse Victims; deadline: 4/7/2020
• Family Drug Court Program; deadline: 4/8/2020
• Alaska Children's Advocacy Center Expansion Initiative for Child Abuse Victims; deadline: 4/8/2020
• Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces: Forensic Capacity Hiring Program for Wounded Veterans; deadline: 4/9/2020
• National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program; deadline: 4/9/2020
• Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Alaska Native Youth Training and Technical Assistance Project; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program; deadline: 4/13/2020
• Supporting Effective Interventions for Adolescent Sex Offenders and Children With Sexual Behavior Problems; deadline: 4/14/2020
• Opioid Affected Youth Initiative; deadline: 4/20/2020
• Delinquency Prevention Program; deadline: 4/21/2020
• Juvenile Justice System Enhancements; deadline: 4/27/2020
• Reducing the Use of Isolation in Juvenile Facilities; deadline: 4/27/2020
• Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence; deadline: 4/27/2020
• Second Chance Act Youth Offender Reentry Program; deadline: 4/28/2020
• Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program; deadline: 5/4/2020
• Comprehensive Anti-Gang Programs for Youth; deadline: 5/26/2020
• Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System; deadline: 6/1/2020

Office for Victims of Crime

• State Victim Liaison Project; deadline: 4/9/2020
• Crime Victim Compensation Program Assessment; deadline: 4/20/2020
• Law Enforcement-Based Victim Specialist Program; deadline: 4/20/2020
• Crime Victims' Rights Legal Clinics; deadline: 4/27/2020
• Addressing Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting; deadline: 4/30/2020
• Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Formula Program; pre-application deadline: 4/30/2020; full application deadline: 6/15/2020
• Enhancing Community Responses to America’s Addiction Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims; deadline: 5/4/2020
• Enhancing Services for Older Victims of Abuse and Financial Exploitation; deadline: 5/5/2020
• Expanding SANE Services to Victims of Sexual Assault on Campus; deadline: 5/7/2020
• Training for Law Enforcement to Improve Identification of and Response to Elder Fraud Victims; deadline 5/11/2020
• Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime; deadline: 5/12/2020
• Specialized Training and Technical Assistance on Housing for Victims of Human Trafficking; deadline 5/14/20
• Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Services for Minor Victims of Labor Trafficking; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Services for Victims of Human Trafficking; deadline: 5/18/2020
• VOCA Victim Compensation Fellow; deadline: 5/18/2020
• Developing Future Victim Specialists to Serve American Indian/Alaska Native Victims of Crime; deadline: 5/26/2020
• Emergency Transitional Pet Shelter Housing and Assistance Grant Program; deadline: 5/29/2020
• VOCA Victim Assistance Formula Grant; deadline: 6/1/2020
• VOCA Victim Compensation Formula Grant; deadline: 6/1/2020
• Guidance for Invited Applications for Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance; deadline: Open

Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking

• Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program; deadline: 4/7/2020
• SORNA Training and Technical Assistance Program; deadline: 4/9/2020

Other Funding Opportunities

National Institute of Justice

• Review and Validation of the First Step Act Risk Assessment Tool; deadline: 4/10/2020
• NIJ's Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Civilians Program; deadline: 5/1/2020
• NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Scholars Program for Law Enforcement Officers; deadline: 5/1/2020