Opportunity Information: Apply for BJA 2014 3835
Apply for BJA 2014 3835
- The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 14 Smart Prosecution Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.825 Smart Prosecution Initiative.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 24, 2014 and posted on Mar 24, 2014.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 22, 2014. (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 $450,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification) State governments County governments City or township governments.
- Eligible applicants are limited to state, local, and tribal prosecutor agencies or a government agency acting as fiscal agent for the applicant.
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Opportunity Summary:
The BJA FY 14 Smart Prosecution Initiative is a discretionary grant program from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), created to help prosecutor offices modernize how they make decisions and measure results. It sits inside BJA's broader "Smart Suite" of crime-fighting programs, which began with the Smart Policing Initiative and later expanded to Smart Supervision and Smart Prosecution. The common theme across the suite is bringing more rigor into public safety work by using evidence-based practices, better data, and practical research partnerships so agencies can improve outcomes while being mindful of limited budgets.
At its core, Smart Prosecution is meant to move prosecution toward a more data-driven and research-based model. The program encourages prosecutor-led innovations and justice system reforms that are grounded in analysis rather than tradition or intuition. A major feature of the model is pairing a prosecutor's office with an operational, results-focused researcher. That partnership is intended to help the office identify chronic public safety problems (including violent crime), analyze local patterns and system performance, test strategies, and then track whether those strategies are actually working. The emphasis is not only on effectiveness, but also on efficiency and fairness, with the broader goal of improving public safety and producing lessons that other prosecutors nationwide can use.
The opportunity also highlights a practical systems goal: helping prosecutor offices access and use data from multiple sources. That includes criminal justice data systems and, where relevant, non-criminal justice information systems, so offices can understand drivers of crime and case outcomes more completely. The overall expectation is that grantees will build tools, processes, and collaborations that make prosecution strategies more targeted and measurable, and that the work will contribute to a stronger evidence base for prosecution practices across the country.
Administratively, this opportunity was posted on March 24, 2014, with an application closing date of April 22, 2014, and an archive date of May 22, 2014. The funding instrument is a grant under the Law, Justice and Legal Services category, with CFDA number 16.825 (Smart Prosecution Initiative). The maximum award amount listed is $450,000, the minimum award floor is $0, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement stated for applicants. Eligible applicants are limited to state, local, and tribal prosecutor agencies, or a government agency applying as the fiscal agent on behalf of an eligible prosecutor office. The funding opportunity number is BJA-2014-3835.
For submission logistics, the listing points applicants to Grants.gov for concept paper submission and provides the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline (800-518-4726 or 606-545-5035) and email (support@grants.gov) for technical help, available 24/7 except federal holidays. The full announcement is referenced through an additional information link, which would contain the detailed program requirements, deliverables, and application instructions.
Smart Prosecution Initiative (BJA FY 14) - Frequently Asked Questions
What is the BJA FY 14 Smart Prosecution Initiative?
The BJA FY 14 Smart Prosecution Initiative is a discretionary grant program from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). It was created to help prosecutor offices modernize how they make decisions and measure results by using more data, evidence-based practices, and practical research partnerships.
What is the purpose of the Smart Prosecution Initiative?
The purpose is to move prosecution toward a more data-driven and research-based model. The program encourages prosecutor-led innovations and justice system reforms that are grounded in analysis rather than tradition or intuition, with an emphasis on improving effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness while being mindful of limited budgets.
How does Smart Prosecution fit within BJA programs?
Smart Prosecution sits within BJA's broader "Smart Suite" of public safety programs. The suite began with the Smart Policing Initiative and later expanded to Smart Supervision and Smart Prosecution. Across the suite, the common theme is bringing more rigor into public safety work through better data, evidence-based practices, and practical research partnerships.
Who is eligible to apply?
Eligible applicants are limited to state, local, and tribal prosecutor agencies. A government agency may also apply as the fiscal agent on behalf of an eligible prosecutor office.
Can a non-prosecutor organization apply directly?
Based on the listing, eligibility is limited to state, local, and tribal prosecutor agencies, or a government agency applying as the fiscal agent on behalf of an eligible prosecutor office. Other organizations are not listed as eligible direct applicants in the information provided.
What kinds of projects does the program support?
The initiative supports prosecutor-led innovations and justice system reforms that use analysis and evidence to address chronic public safety problems (including violent crime), test strategies, and measure whether those strategies are working. It also expects work that improves how prosecutor offices access and use data from multiple sources to make prosecution strategies more targeted and measurable.
What is the role of research and data in this program?
A central feature is pairing a prosecutor's office with an operational, results-focused researcher. This partnership is intended to help identify chronic problems, analyze local patterns and justice system performance, test strategies, and track outcomes. The program emphasizes evidence-based decision-making and producing lessons that other prosecutor offices nationwide can use.
Does the program require a partnership with a researcher?
The opportunity highlights pairing a prosecutor office with an operational, results-focused researcher as a major feature of the model. The partnership is described as a key mechanism for analyzing problems, testing strategies, and tracking results.
What kinds of problems is the program designed to address?
The program is designed to help prosecutor offices identify and address chronic public safety problems, including violent crime, using data analysis and research partnerships to understand local patterns and system performance.
What does the program mean by "modernize how decisions are made and results are measured"?
In the description provided, modernization refers to shifting toward data-driven and research-based prosecution, using evidence-based practices, improving access to data, testing strategies, and tracking whether strategies produce better outcomes. It also includes attention to efficiency and fairness.
What types of data are grantees expected to use?
The opportunity highlights helping prosecutor offices access and use data from multiple sources. That includes criminal justice data systems and, where relevant, non-criminal justice information systems, to better understand drivers of crime and case outcomes.
Is the focus only on effectiveness, or are other goals included?
The program emphasizes effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness, with the broader goal of improving public safety and contributing lessons and evidence that other prosecutor offices across the country can use.
What is the maximum award amount?
The maximum award amount listed for this opportunity is $450,000.
Is there a minimum award amount?
The minimum award floor is listed as $0.
Is a cost share or match required?
No cost sharing or matching requirement is stated for applicants in the information provided.
What type of funding instrument is this?
The funding instrument is a grant.
What is the CFDA number for this program?
The CFDA number listed is 16.825 (Smart Prosecution Initiative).
What is the funding opportunity number?
The funding opportunity number is BJA-2014-3835.
What category does this opportunity fall under?
The listing places this opportunity under the Law, Justice and Legal Services category.
When was the opportunity posted?
The opportunity was posted on March 24, 2014.
What was the application closing date?
The application closing date was April 22, 2014.
When was the opportunity archived?
The archive date is May 22, 2014.
Where is the application submitted?
The listing points applicants to Grants.gov for concept paper submission.
Where can applicants get technical help with Grants.gov?
For technical help, the listing provides the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800-518-4726 or 606-545-5035, and the email address support@grants.gov.
When is Grants.gov customer support available?
Customer support is available 24/7 except federal holidays, based on the information provided.
Where can applicants find detailed requirements and instructions?
The listing references a full announcement through an additional information link, which would contain the detailed program requirements, deliverables, and application instructions.
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