Week of 3/20/18

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Over a dozen grants have been announced by the Department of Justice. Grants focus on a wide variety of issues from school safety to understanding the impacts of policing strategies and practices. The opportunity highlighted below focuses on improving the capacity and effectiveness of community supervision agencies with an end goal to increase probation and parole success rates. The Community Connect Broadband Grant Program offered by the USDA is designed to provide financial assistance to provide service at the Broadband Grant Speed in rural, economically-challenged communities where broadband service does not currently exist. Funding is being provided to library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields to examine how they can work with their communities to leverage their unique abilities to affect positive community change.

Bureau of Justice Assistance
Grant Title: BJA FY 18 Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Building Capacity to Create Safer Communities
Grant Info: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=301577
 Details: The Smart Supervision Program seeks to improve the capacity and effectiveness of community supervision agencies to increase probation and parole success rates and reduce the number of crimes committed by those under probation and parole supervision, which would in turn reduce admissions to prisons and jails and save taxpayer dollars. Funds will be awarded in two categories. In Category 1, state and local agencies will be selected to improve supervision using evidence-based supervision strategies or to innovate new strategies to improve outcomes for supervisees. For example, agencies may test supervision strategies with offenders at high risk of committing or being victimized by violence and may shift supervision strategies from time focused to goal focused and from mass supervision to focus on individualized supervision. In Category 2, a TTA provider will work with three sites to develop a model for law enforcement and prosecutors to work with probation departments with regard to high risk, violent offenders. The TTA provider will select three sites in concert with BJA and pass through funds to support their work.

Utilities Programs
Grant Title: Community Connect Grant Program
Grant Info: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=301700
Details: The Community Connect Broadband Grant Program (Community Connect Grant Program) is designed to provide financial assistance to provide service at the Broadband Grant Speed in rural, economically-challenged communities where broadband service does not currently exist. Grant funds may be used to: (1) deploy service at the Broadband Grant Speed to critical community facilities, rural residents, and rural businesses, (2) construct, acquire, or expand a community center, and (3) equip a community center that provides free access to service at the Broadband Grant Speed to community residents for at least two years. Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis for entities to serve all premises in eligible rural areas at the Broadband Grant Speed to ensure rural consumers enjoy the same quality and range of broadband services as are available in urban and suburban communities.

Institute of Museum and Library Services
Grant Title: Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets- A National Leadership Grants Special Initiative
Grant Info: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=301697
Details: The goal of the National Leadership Grant Programs (NLG) is to support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields and have the potential to advance theory and practice. Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets is a special NLG initiative with the goal of examining how LAMs can work with their communities to leverage their unique abilities to affect positive community change.

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