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Opportunity Summary:

The OJJDP FY 2012 National Mentoring Programs grant (Funding Opportunity Number OJJDP 2012 3244) is a discretionary federal grant offered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It is designed to support established national mentoring organizations as they work to strengthen and expand mentoring services delivered through their local affiliates. The overall purpose is to reach at-risk and underserved youth with structured, research-informed mentoring that helps reduce the likelihood of delinquency and other problem behaviors by addressing the underlying risk factors that can contribute to those outcomes.

The solicitation emphasizes the practical expansion and improvement of existing mentoring efforts rather than the creation of entirely new national entities. It supports several common mentoring models, including traditional one-on-one mentoring, group mentoring, and peer mentoring. Funded programs are expected to be intentional about both service quality and outcomes: applicants should implement mentoring approaches that recognize the realities underserved youth face and respond to the specific factors that can act as catalysts for delinquent behavior. In other words, the mentoring is not framed as a generic youth development activity, but as a targeted prevention strategy that can strengthen protective factors, improve decision-making and school engagement, and create positive developmental opportunities tied to mentee achievement.

Eligibility is tightly limited to true national organizations. To qualify, an applicant must be a national organization with active affiliates, chapters, or subgrantees in at least 45 states. Applications must be submitted by the national headquarters organization, and the structure of the award is meant to push funding outward to local implementation. Specifically, the national grantee is required to subaward 90 percent of the total award to at least 38 states where it already has a presence. This design makes clear that OJJDP’s intent is to resource on-the-ground mentoring services at scale, using the national organization primarily as the coordinating and support hub. The solicitation also notes that for-profit organizations may apply only if they agree to forgo any profit or management fee, reinforcing that the funds are meant for program delivery rather than revenue generation.

The opportunity falls under the funding activity category of Law, Justice and Legal Services and is associated with CFDA number 16.726 (Juvenile Mentoring Program). There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which reduces barriers to participation for qualifying organizations and helps ensure that funding can be focused on program operations, expansion, and quality improvement rather than on assembling match commitments.

Key dates for the FY 2012 cycle show that the opportunity was posted March 15, 2012, created March 16, 2012, and closed May 2, 2012, with the archive date listed as June 1, 2012. The listing shows award floor and ceiling as 0, which typically signals that the specific award amounts were not stated in that summary field and would need to be confirmed in the full announcement itself. The grant is authorized by the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2012 (Pub. L. No. 112-55, 125 Stat. 552, 617), which provides the statutory basis for the program.

For applicants needing help, OJJDP directed questions and support to the Justice Information Center (JIC). The contact details provided include phone assistance at 1-877-927-5657, email support at JIC@telesishq.com, and a live web chat option, with operating hours during standard business times (Eastern) and extended hours on the solicitation close date.

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