2021 Police and Law Enforcement Grants
Comprehensive list of police and law enforcement grants and funding opportunities for public safety
GENERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS
Community Policing Development Grant Program
Link: www.tgci.com/funding/community.asp 2021 Community Policing Development (CPD) Program Grant
The Fiscal Year 2021 Community Policing Development (CPD) program is a competitive solicitation, open to all public governmental agencies, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations.
CPD funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.
The 2021 CPD program will fund projects that develop knowledge, increase awareness of effective community policing strategies, increase the skills and abilities of law enforcement and community partners, increase the number of law enforcement agencies and relevant stakeholders using proven community policing practices, and institutionalize community policing practice in routine business.
Up to $6 million is available through this year’s program, and all awards are subject to the availability of funds.
Community Policing Grant Program
Link: cops.usdoj.gov/cpdmicrogrants 2021 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrant
CPD funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.
The 2021 CPD program will fund projects that develop knowledge, increase awareness of effective community policing strategies, increase the skills and abilities of law enforcement and community partners, increase the number of law enforcement agencies and relevant stakeholders using proven community policing practices, and institutionalize community policing practice in routine business.
Up to $6 million is available through this year’s program, and all awards are subject to the availability of funds.
Community Foundation Grants
Link: www.tgci.com/funding/community.asp
Community Foundations are non-profit, tax-exempt, publicly supported grant-making organizations. The foundations are public charities, since they develop broad support from many unrelated donors with a wide range of charitable interests in a specific community.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GRANT PROGRAMS
Link: www.grants.gov/
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that will have an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
United States Department of Justice Grants
Link: www.usdoj.gov/10grants/index.html
The Department offers funding opportunities to conduct research, to support law enforcement activities in state and local jurisdictions, to provide training and technical assistance, and to implement programs that improve the criminal justice system.
Urban Areas Security Initiative Grant Program
Link: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/docs/fy04uasi.pdf
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) FY 2004 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) reflects the intent of Congress and the Administration to create a sustainable national model program to enhance security and overall preparedness to prevent, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism. The initiative includes an urban area assessment and strategy component which will be used by ODP and the Urban Area Working Group (UAWG) to both allocate grant funding and guide delivery of direct services in the form of equipment, planning, training, exercises, and technical assistance for police departments and law enforcement agencies.
Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Program
Link: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/llebg_app.html
The Local Law Enforcement Block Grants (LLEBG) Program provides funds to units of local government to underwrite projects that reduce crime and improve public safety. The LLEBG Program emphasizes local decision-making and encourages communities to craft their own responses to local crime and drug problems.
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Technology Grant
Link: www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=65
The COPS Office has distributed over 8 billion dollars to advance community policing since it was created in 1994. This funding supports a wide range of activities. COPS funding helps local law enforcement agencies hire, equip, and train new community policing professionals. COPS funding helps redeploy existing officers into their communities and studies ways to maximize the impact they have on the people who live there. COPS funds a wide variety of strategies to advance community policing through innovative techniques and technologies.
Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant
Link: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/byrne.html
The Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant Program (Byrne Formula Grant Program) is a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities. Grants may be used to provide personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance, and information systems for more widespread apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, detention, and rehabilitation of offenders who violate such state and local laws.
Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation Grants
Link: cops.usdoj.gov/ctas
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking applications for funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. This solicitation provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety and victimization.
The grant programs outlined in this CTAS solicitation are referred to as purpose areas. Applicants may apply for funding under the purpose area(s) that best address tribes’ concerns related to public safety, criminal and juvenile justice, and responses to domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and other crimes. Below is a list of the CTAS purpose areas that relate to BJA
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GRANTS - COPS GRANTS
Link: cops.usdoj.gov/ric/ric
LAW ENFORCEMENT RESOURCES
Link: cops.usdoj
ADDITIONAL POLICE and LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) funds training and programs, including fusion centers, for response to domestic or international terrorism. Most of these federal grants are received through your state’s homeland security or emergency management agency.
Homeland Security Grant Program
Link: www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/homeland-security
The Homeland Security Grant includes a suite of risk-based grants to assist state, local, tribal and territorial efforts in preventing, protecting against, mitigating, responding to and recovering from acts of terrorism and other threats. This grant provides grantees with the resources required for implementation of the National Preparedness System and working toward the National Preparedness Goal of a secure and resilient nation.
Individual Grant Programs
Together, these three grant programs comprise the Homeland Security Grant Program and fund a range of preparedness activities, including planning, organization, equipment purchase, training, exercises, and management and administration across all core capabilities and mission areas.
State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This program provides funding to support the implementation of risk-driven, capabilities-based State Homeland Security Strategies to address capability targets.
Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This program provides funding to enhance regional preparedness and capabilities in designated high-threat, high-density areas.
Operation Stonegarden (OPSG)
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This program provides funding to enhance cooperation and coordination among state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal law enforcement agencies to jointly enhance security along the United States land and water borders.
ADDITIONAL FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAMS
Transit Security Grant Program
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This grant provides funding to eligible public transportation systems (which include intra-city bus, ferries and all forms of passenger rail) to protect critical transportation infrastructure and the travelling public from terrorism, and to increase transportation infrastructure resilience.
Community Policing Development Grant Program
Link: www.tgci.com/funding/community.asp 2021 Community Policing Development (CPD) Program Grant
The Fiscal Year 2021 Community Policing Development (CPD) program is a competitive solicitation, open to all public governmental agencies, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations.
CPD funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.
The 2021 CPD program will fund projects that develop knowledge, increase awareness of effective community policing strategies, increase the skills and abilities of law enforcement and community partners, increase the number of law enforcement agencies and relevant stakeholders using proven community policing practices, and institutionalize community policing practice in routine business.
Up to $6 million is available through this year’s program, and all awards are subject to the availability of funds.
Community Policing Grant Program
Link: cops.usdoj.gov/cpdmicrogrants 2021 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrant
CPD funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.
The 2021 CPD program will fund projects that develop knowledge, increase awareness of effective community policing strategies, increase the skills and abilities of law enforcement and community partners, increase the number of law enforcement agencies and relevant stakeholders using proven community policing practices, and institutionalize community policing practice in routine business.
Up to $6 million is available through this year’s program, and all awards are subject to the availability of funds.
Community Foundation Grants
Link: www.tgci.com/funding/community.asp
Community Foundations are non-profit, tax-exempt, publicly supported grant-making organizations. The foundations are public charities, since they develop broad support from many unrelated donors with a wide range of charitable interests in a specific community.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GRANT PROGRAMS
Link: www.grants.gov/
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that will have an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
United States Department of Justice Grants
Link: www.usdoj.gov/10grants/index.html
The Department offers funding opportunities to conduct research, to support law enforcement activities in state and local jurisdictions, to provide training and technical assistance, and to implement programs that improve the criminal justice system.
Urban Areas Security Initiative Grant Program
Link: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/docs/fy04uasi.pdf
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) FY 2004 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) reflects the intent of Congress and the Administration to create a sustainable national model program to enhance security and overall preparedness to prevent, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism. The initiative includes an urban area assessment and strategy component which will be used by ODP and the Urban Area Working Group (UAWG) to both allocate grant funding and guide delivery of direct services in the form of equipment, planning, training, exercises, and technical assistance for police departments and law enforcement agencies.
Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Program
Link: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/llebg_app.html
The Local Law Enforcement Block Grants (LLEBG) Program provides funds to units of local government to underwrite projects that reduce crime and improve public safety. The LLEBG Program emphasizes local decision-making and encourages communities to craft their own responses to local crime and drug problems.
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Technology Grant
Link: www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=65
The COPS Office has distributed over 8 billion dollars to advance community policing since it was created in 1994. This funding supports a wide range of activities. COPS funding helps local law enforcement agencies hire, equip, and train new community policing professionals. COPS funding helps redeploy existing officers into their communities and studies ways to maximize the impact they have on the people who live there. COPS funds a wide variety of strategies to advance community policing through innovative techniques and technologies.
Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant
Link: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/byrne.html
The Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant Program (Byrne Formula Grant Program) is a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities. Grants may be used to provide personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance, and information systems for more widespread apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, detention, and rehabilitation of offenders who violate such state and local laws.
Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation Grants
Link: cops.usdoj.gov/ctas
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking applications for funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. This solicitation provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety and victimization.
The grant programs outlined in this CTAS solicitation are referred to as purpose areas. Applicants may apply for funding under the purpose area(s) that best address tribes’ concerns related to public safety, criminal and juvenile justice, and responses to domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and other crimes. Below is a list of the CTAS purpose areas that relate to BJA
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GRANTS - COPS GRANTS
Link: cops.usdoj.gov/ric/ric
LAW ENFORCEMENT RESOURCES
Link: cops.usdoj
ADDITIONAL POLICE and LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) funds training and programs, including fusion centers, for response to domestic or international terrorism. Most of these federal grants are received through your state’s homeland security or emergency management agency.
- Through its Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG), DHS assists state, local, tribal, territorial governments in enhancing and sustaining all-hazards emergency management capabilities.
- Its Operation Stonegarden program (OPSG) supports cooperation and coordination among Customs and Border Protection (CBP), United States Border Patrol (USBP), and local, tribal, territorial, state, and Federal law enforcement agencies along routes of ingress from international borders.
Homeland Security Grant Program
Link: www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/homeland-security
The Homeland Security Grant includes a suite of risk-based grants to assist state, local, tribal and territorial efforts in preventing, protecting against, mitigating, responding to and recovering from acts of terrorism and other threats. This grant provides grantees with the resources required for implementation of the National Preparedness System and working toward the National Preparedness Goal of a secure and resilient nation.
Individual Grant Programs
Together, these three grant programs comprise the Homeland Security Grant Program and fund a range of preparedness activities, including planning, organization, equipment purchase, training, exercises, and management and administration across all core capabilities and mission areas.
State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This program provides funding to support the implementation of risk-driven, capabilities-based State Homeland Security Strategies to address capability targets.
Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This program provides funding to enhance regional preparedness and capabilities in designated high-threat, high-density areas.
Operation Stonegarden (OPSG)
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This program provides funding to enhance cooperation and coordination among state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal law enforcement agencies to jointly enhance security along the United States land and water borders.
ADDITIONAL FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAMS
Transit Security Grant Program
Link: www.fema.gov/homeland-security-grant-program
This grant provides funding to eligible public transportation systems (which include intra-city bus, ferries and all forms of passenger rail) to protect critical transportation infrastructure and the travelling public from terrorism, and to increase transportation infrastructure resilience.