2025 NCVRW CAP Grant Application Deadline

2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Projects

Funding Opportunity

The National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA), in cooperation with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), is seeking proposals for innovative and collaborative approaches to promoting community‐wide public awareness of the rights and available services for victims of all types of crimes during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), April 6-12, 2025.

The 2025 NCVRW theme is Connecting < KINSHIP > Healing.

Successful applicants will be awarded up to $5,000 each in reimbursement for approved NCVRW public awareness activities through the NCVRW Community Awareness Project’s (CAP) program. Public agencies, nonprofit organizations, community‐based victim service organizations, faith‐based organizations, tribal organizations, and community coalitions committed to advocating for the rights and services of crime victims are among those encouraged to apply.

Over the past 16 years, the NCVRW Community Awareness Project has supported more than 1,600 community projects to raise public awareness about victims’ rights and services. Within many of these communities, NCVRW events were enhanced by the collaborative partnerships formed during each project’s planning phase.

Generally, the types of activities supported with NCVRW CAP funds fall into one or more of the following categories:

• a public event at which individual members of the general public physically attend in person (e.g., candlelight vigils, information or resource fairs, 5k walk/runs, memorial services).
• mass media advertising (e.g., newspaper, radio, or television ads, billboards, mass transit or movie theatre ads, including social media); and
• the production, publication, and distribution of printed awareness materials (e.g., brochures, posters, victims’ rights cards, resource directories).

Examples of allowable costs include the production and purchase of advertising in print media, social media, radio, television, or outdoor advertising to promote NCVRW events, victims’ rights, and available services; design and printing of promotional materials; support for event speakers; design and printing of posters, invitations, and fliers; and the purchase of supplies and materials used in public awareness events and activities. Salaries, entertainment, and fundraising costs are not eligible for reimbursement.

The application deadline is Friday, November 8, 2024, 7:59 pm ET.