Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) | DHS 21 TTP 132 00 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant Program is a discretionary Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant, administered through DHS/FEMA, designed to strengthen community-level capacity to prevent targeted violence and terrorism in all forms. The program reflects DHSs view that the threat landscape has shifted over time: while the post-9/11 era focused heavily on disrupting overseas-directed plots, recent years have seen domestic terrorism cause more deaths in the United States than terrorism connected to foreign terrorist organizations. DHSs 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment specifically identifies domestic violent extremists, including violent white supremacists, as the most persistent and lethal threat, while also noting that foreign terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and ISIS continue to use online platforms to inspire attacks by individuals in the United States with minimal training or direct support. The grant also acknowledges that mass casualty attacks can occur without a clear ideological link, and that research suggests many risk factors for radicalization to violence overlap with risk factors seen in other forms of targeted violence. In practical terms, the program exists to help communities build structured, sustainable local prevention frameworks that can address a range of threats while still safeguarding privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.

At the center of the opportunity is funding to implement or expand local prevention frameworks aligned with the 2019 DHS Strategic Framework and the DHS Strategic Plan for FY 2020-2024 goal of countering terrorism and homeland security threats. The program is meant to build on lessons learned and promising practices from prior DHS prevention efforts, and to push communities toward durable, cross-sector systems rather than one-off activities. DHS frames these local frameworks as a way to organize awareness, stakeholder partnerships, threat assessment and management, and supportive services into a coherent approach that can identify and reduce risks before violence occurs. The grant emphasizes that prevention is not just about identifying potential threats, but also about strengthening protective factors and ensuring communities know how to respond appropriately when concerns arise.

The TVTP program lays out several core objectives that applicants are expected to advance. These include raising awareness about radicalization to violence and about the risk factors that may contribute to mobilization, as well as the protective factors that can reduce vulnerability. The program also prioritizes building and sustaining trusted local partnerships across the broadest feasible set of stakeholders, with an emphasis on improved communication and coordination. Another key objective is ensuring that awareness training is actionable: community members should understand what threat assessment and management teams do, how to contact them, and what role they play. Relatedly, the program stresses access to multidisciplinary threat assessment and management teams, recognizing that effective prevention often requires coordination among education, public health, behavioral health, social services, community organizations, and law enforcement. Finally, the grant aims to ensure communities have a variety of programs that can address underlying risk factors and provide services that support threat management approaches, rather than relying solely on enforcement-based responses.

To support different levels of readiness and different types of work, the grant opportunity is structured around three application tracks: Promising Practices - Single Project, Promising Practices - Multiple Projects, and an Innovation track. The Promising Practices tracks are geared toward implementing established or evidence-informed approaches, either through a single initiative or through a set of coordinated projects, to build out a local prevention framework. The Innovation track is intended for exploring new or emerging approaches to preventing targeted violence and terrorism, especially approaches responsive to evolving threats and consistent with the March 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance. Across all tracks, DHS signals that proposals should be grounded in research and measurable outcomes, pointing applicants to resources such as logic models and performance measurement references (noted as being available in Appendix D of the full funding package) to help design, justify, and evaluate proposed activities.

The grant identifies four major program priorities that shape what DHS wants to fund. First is preventing domestic violent extremism, reflecting DHSs assessment of the current threat environment. Second is enhancing local threat assessment and management capabilities, which includes strengthening multidisciplinary processes and ensuring communities can identify concerning behaviors and manage risk in a coordinated, non-duplicative way. Third is implementing innovative solutions for preventing targeted violence and terrorism, encouraging applicants to pilot or scale creative approaches that can address persistent gaps in prevention. Fourth is challenging online violence mobilization narratives, recognizing the role that digital platforms can play in recruitment, inspiration, and escalation, and encouraging efforts that reduce the spread and impact of violent mobilization content while remaining consistent with rights-protecting principles.

In terms of basic grant facts, this opportunity is listed as Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP), Funding Opportunity Number DHS 21 TTP 132 00 01, CFDA 97.132. It is open to a wide range of eligible applicants, including state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than institutions of higher education). The opportunity was posted March 24, 2021, with an original closing date of May 25, 2021. The award ceiling is listed as $2,000,000, and DHS anticipated making around 50 awards. Overall, the program is designed to help localities and community partners move from ad hoc prevention efforts toward structured, research-informed, and measurable frameworks that can reduce the risk of targeted violence and terrorism while maintaining strong protections for civil rights and civil liberties.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the arts (see cultural affairs in cfda), community development, education, employment, labor and training, health, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), income security and social services, law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.132.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 24, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 25, 2021. (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 $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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