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Opportunity Summary:

The BJA FY 10 Encouraging Innovation Field Initiated Programs grant (Funding Opportunity Number BJA 2010 2629) was a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, designed to surface and support practical, field driven innovations in the criminal justice system. At its core, the solicitation focused on finding new approaches that solve real, documented problems either within justice system operations or within the knowledge base used by practitioners and state and local policymakers. BJA emphasized ideas that fill a clear gap, demonstrate measurable progress, and are strong candidates for replication across jurisdictions nationwide, with the larger goal of expanding the national pool of evidence based strategies and promising practices.

The program invited applicants to submit proposals under one of three broad categories. First, applicants could propose state or local programs that strategically address emerging or long standing (chronic) criminal justice issues. Second, applicants could propose innovative strategies specifically aimed at addressing those types of issues, which leaves room for new methods, new partnerships, and new applications of existing tools. Third, applicants could focus on sustainability strategies, meaning approaches that help innovative or evidence based programs continue long term, beyond initial start up funding, including planning for institutionalization, financing, and operational support. Across all three categories, BJA signaled that it wanted the strongest field generated concepts that would advance justice system capabilities and performance, including projects that implement an evidence based practice in a novel way or apply it to a new or evolving problem.

A major requirement woven throughout the solicitation was accountability through measurement and documentation. Funded projects were expected to define performance measures that make sense for the initiative, assess progress against those agreed upon measures, and document outcomes in a way that can be reported clearly and used by other jurisdictions. In other words, BJA was not only paying for implementation; it was paying for learning that could travel. Proposals needed to show how success would be defined, how data would be collected and analyzed, and how results would be captured so others could replicate or adapt the model elsewhere.

Funding for this solicitation came from two related federal funding streams: the Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program and the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program. The solicitation referenced the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111 117) as authorizing the Byrne Competitive Program to help communities strengthen state and local justice system capacity and to support national efforts like training and technical assistance targeted to local needs. It also referenced JAG (42 U.S.C. 3751(a)) as the primary source of federal criminal justice funding for state and local jurisdictions, with flexibility to support all components of the justice system. The announcement also cited statutory language (42 U.S.C. 3756) describing the Attorney General authority to reserve up to 5 percent for grants to states or local governments when necessary to respond to extraordinary increases in crime or particular crime types, reinforcing that the broader Byrne/JAG framework is intended to be responsive to changing conditions.

Key administrative details include an award ceiling of $750,000 and no cost sharing or matching requirement. The opportunity was posted March 31, 2010, with an original closing date of May 13, 2010, later extended to May 18, 2010, and it was archived June 17, 2010. The CFDA numbers tied to the funding were 16.738 (Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program) and 16.751 (Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program). Because it was a discretionary grant, awards were competitively selected rather than formula distributed.

Eligibility was broad and intentionally inclusive, reflecting the program goal of finding innovation wherever it exists. Eligible applicants included state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, federally recognized tribal governments, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (both with and without 501(c)(3) status), and other public or private entities, including for profit organizations, faith based organizations, and community organizations. A notable condition applied to for profit entities: they were required to agree to waive any profit or fees for services, ensuring federal funds supported public benefit outcomes rather than generating private profit from the award.

Overall, the solicitation can be understood as BJA using Byrne/JAG authority to invest in on the ground experimentation that is disciplined by performance measurement and geared toward national usefulness. The ideal application would identify a specific justice system problem, explain why current approaches are insufficient, propose an innovative intervention or sustainability approach, define how it will be implemented in practice, and commit to rigorous tracking and documentation so the results can inform the broader field. For applicants needing help accessing the full announcement electronically, the listed technical contact was Al Roddy (Technical Application Support) at 202 353 1881.

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