Grant Details

Through this solicitation, OVC seeks to provide funding to organizations that demonstrate innovative strategies to create, expand, or enhance the use of technology to interact directly with crime victims, improve the quality of services, and improve the accessibility and responsiveness of victim service organizations.

Funding under this initiative may support:

• technology development and maintenance to facilitate efficient service delivery and/or communication;
• staff required to operate, update, and maintain the proposed technology platform or service; training and technical assistance on the purpose and use of the technology (including outreach and publicity activities); and
• staff engaged in coalition-building activities regarding the use of technology.

Applicants are encouraged to focus on, but are not limited to applications that focus on—

• addressing online gender-based abuse and harassment, which is defined as actions by one or more people that harm others based on their sexual or gender identity or enforce harmful gender norms that are carried out using the internet and/or mobile technology and includes stalking, bullying, sex-based harassment, defamation, hate speech, exploitation, and gender trolling,”;
• offering programming or services that respond to online and online-facilitated gender-based violence; and
• using technology to make services safe and more accessible, and that reach underserved communities.