OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative | O OVW 2025 172426

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), focused on improving how OVW-funded programs are carried out across the country. The core purpose is to provide direct training and technical assistance (often referred to as TTA) to both current and potential OVW recipients and subrecipients so they can more effectively implement projects supported with OVW grant dollars. In practice, this means supporting the people and organizations who run OVW-funded work with hands-on help such as training, consultation, implementation guidance, and problem-solving support, rather than primarily funding direct services.

The initiative is meant to strengthen and expand the capacity of professionals in both civil and criminal justice systems, along with victim service providers nationwide, to respond effectively to the four Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) crimes: domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. A major theme is improving coordinated responses by helping organizations build stronger partnerships and collaboration, since OVW-funded projects often rely on cross-system coordination (for example, law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, advocates, and community-based providers working together). The emphasis is national in scope, targeting improvements that can be scaled and shared across jurisdictions and territories rather than limited to a single locality.

Funding is offered through a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates a more active federal role than a standard grant and often involves close coordination with OVW on goals, deliverables, and implementation. The program sits within the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity area and is associated with CFDA number 16.526. OVW anticipates making around 50 awards, with an award ceiling of $1,500,000 per award. The opportunity was created on July 21, 2025, and the original application deadline is September 9, 2025.

Eligibility is broad in the listing, including state, county, city or township governments; special district governments; federally recognized Tribal governments; Tribal organizations; public housing authorities; public and private institutions of higher education; and nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status, among others. That said, the program description makes clear who OVW expects to lead this work: national, Tribal, statewide, or other nonprofit organizations that can deliver training and technical assistance at a national level to OVW recipients and subrecipients throughout the United States and U.S. territories. The key practical requirement is demonstrated capacity to provide TTA nationally, meaning applicants should be positioned to serve a wide geographic footprint and multiple types of OVW grantees, not just one region or a single state.

The notice also highlights that it would be unusual, but not impossible, for OVW to fund certain other types of entities under this initiative, such as institutions of higher education, state or local governments, Tribal governments or governmental agencies, or local nonprofit organizations. In those rare cases, the applicant must clearly document a strong history of delivering training and technical assistance on a national scale. In other words, simply being a capable local or state organization is not enough for this initiative; applicants need to show that they have already operated nationally (or can credibly do so) and that their systems, staffing, and program model are designed for nationwide reach.

Overall, this opportunity is aimed at strengthening the national infrastructure behind OVW-funded work by investing in organizations that can train, coach, and support the field. The intended outcome is better implementation quality, stronger partnerships, and improved system and service-provider responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking across diverse communities, including in U.S. territories.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.526.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-09-09. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others, Unrestricted.

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