BJA FY 21 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Training and Technical Assistance Program

Additional information on eligibility (from the notice)

For-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations (including tribal organizations), faith-based and community organizations, and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education) with demonstrated expertise in assisting communities to develop and implement hate crime investigations, as well as conducting educational outreach and training on hate crimes.  BJA is seeking applicants to provide training and technical assistance that have: Expert knowledge of associated work on hate crimes reporting, identification, and responses including investigation and prosecution.  Extensive experience in brokering and developing technical assistance. Experience in identification of best practices.  Program documentation, resource compilation, and information dissemination experience.  The willingness to work with BJA and other partners as a member of a training and technical assistance collaborative. To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, as of October 28, 2020, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.  For detailed information on this new certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO. All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

A quick check against the listed applicant types — other requirements in the notice still apply.