OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs Initiative | O OVW 2025 172315

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The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is offering a discretionary grant opportunity for fiscal year 2025 titled "Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs Initiative," also referred to as the Campus Set Aside Initiative. This initiative uses set-aside funds from the OVW Campus Program authorized under 34 U.S.C. 20125 to help certain colleges and universities strengthen how they prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus. The central idea is to boost institutional capacity so these schools can build stronger, more consistent, and student-centered systems for safety, reporting, response, and prevention.

The focus of the funding is specifically on institutions that serve communities that have historically been under-resourced in many areas of higher education infrastructure and student support. Through this initiative, OVW intends to support Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) in developing and implementing comprehensive strategies that address these forms of violence in ways that fit the needs of their student populations. In practical terms, the grant is aimed at strengthening campus-wide coordination and readiness, improving how cases are handled from first disclosure through resolution, and expanding prevention programming that reduces risk and builds a culture of safety and accountability.

Supported activities are described broadly as capacity-building efforts that help schools put effective response protocols in place and expand prevention education. That can include improving institutional policies and procedures, clarifying roles across campus offices, creating or refining coordinated response practices, and ensuring prevention and response approaches are meaningful for students and grounded in what works. OVW highlights two major buckets of work: (1) effective response protocols, meaning clear and actionable procedures for addressing incidents and supporting survivors, and (2) prevention programming, meaning education and strategies intended to stop violence before it occurs and to shift campus norms. While the notice does not list every allowable activity in the excerpt provided, the emphasis is clearly on building sustainable systems and practices rather than one-off events.

Eligibility is limited to institutions of higher education that are designated as HSIs, HBCUs, or TCUs. The eligible applicant types in the source data include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and other qualifying institutions, as long as they meet the HSI, HBCU, or TCU designation requirements. The awarding agency is the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, and the program is associated with CFDA number 16.525 under the funding activity category of Law, Justice, and Legal Services.

Key logistics from the opportunity listing include an application deadline of September 9, 2025, with the opportunity created on July 17, 2025. Awards are expected to be made to approximately 25 recipients, and the maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $500,000. The funding instrument is a grant, and the opportunity category is discretionary, meaning funds are awarded through a competitive application process rather than by formula. The funding opportunity number is OVW 2025 172315.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.525.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-17.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-09-09. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Others.

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