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Opportunity Summary:

The NIJ FY 15 Research on Bias Crime Victimization opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NIJ 2015 4021) is a discretionary grant solicitation from the National Institute of Justice focused on expanding what is known about bias crime (often called hate crime) victimization and improving how it is identified and measured. NIJ highlights that bias crimes tend to produce more severe harms than comparable non-bias crimes, not only for individual victims but also for affected communities, which can experience broader fear, social tension, and reduced trust. The overall aim is to support research and evaluation that strengthens the evidence base and improves practical methods for recognizing and tracking bias crime victimization, especially in places and populations where current data are limited or unreliable.

NIJ signals three main research priorities within this solicitation. First, it seeks projects that develop and test screening or assessment tools that can better identify bias crime victims. This points to a practical measurement problem: many victims may not be recognized as bias crime victims by agencies or service providers, either because the incident is not reported, the bias element is not disclosed, or existing intake processes do not capture relevant indicators. Proposals in this area would typically focus on designing and validating tools that can be used in real settings, such as victim services, healthcare, community organizations, or justice system points of contact, to improve consistent identification and documentation.

Second, NIJ is interested in localized victimization surveys that use new and innovative sampling strategies to understand hate crime among immigrant and other understudied communities. This reflects a recognition that national-level statistics and standard sampling approaches can miss smaller, harder-to-reach, or less visible groups, and that local context matters for understanding patterns of victimization and reporting. The emphasis on innovative sampling suggests NIJ is open to methodological experimentation that improves coverage of communities that may be linguistically isolated, distrustful of government, mobile, or otherwise unlikely to be captured through conventional survey frames.

Third, the solicitation encourages exploring non-traditional data sources to track bias crime victimization. This is essentially an invitation to broaden the measurement toolkit beyond standard police reports and traditional surveys. Non-traditional sources could include community-based reporting systems, service provider records, hospital or clinic data, school incident data, hotline logs, social media or online reporting portals, or other administrative and community datasets. The core idea is to examine whether these sources can help detect incidents that never make it into official statistics, identify emerging patterns more quickly, or provide richer context about victim experiences and community impacts.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, NIJ anticipated making about three awards under this solicitation, with an estimated total funding amount of $1,000,000. The listed award ceiling is $1,000,000 and the award floor is $1,000, meaning proposed budgets could vary widely depending on scope, though the total funding pool implies a competitive environment and likely favors well-justified, feasible projects. The funding instrument is a grant, the activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, and the CFDA number is 16.560 (National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants). There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which reduces barriers for applicants that may not have access to non-federal match resources.

The eligibility list is broad and includes state, county, city or township governments, special district governments, and independent school districts, along with federally recognized tribal governments and tribal organizations. Both public and private institutions of higher education are eligible, as are nonprofits (with or without 501(c)(3) status, excluding institutions of higher education in that category), public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, small businesses, for-profit organizations (including those other than small businesses), and even individuals. This wide eligibility suggests NIJ wanted to encourage proposals from researchers, universities, community organizations, and applied partners that may have access to unique populations or data sources relevant to bias crime victimization.

Key dates for the solicitation include a posted date of January 13, 2015, with an original and current closing date of April 13, 2015, and an archive date of May 13, 2015. The solicitation also provides a point of contact for access issues: Carrie Mulford, Social Science Analyst and Program Manager at NIJ, reachable at (202) 307 2959.

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