OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Formula Programs Training and Technical Assistance Initiative | O OVW 2026 172378

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Formula Programs Training and Technical Assistance Initiative is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), designed to strengthen how State Administering Agencies (SAAs) run and oversee two major Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) formula programs: the Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP) and the Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors (STOP) Formula Grant Program. The core goal is to fund organizations that can provide high-quality, national-level training and technical assistance (often referred to as TTA) so SAAs can improve implementation, oversight, and compliance across these formula grant streams. In practical terms, the initiative focuses on helping SAAs better manage formula funds that flow out to local communities and service systems, with the ultimate aim of improving responses to VAWA-related crimes, including in American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages.

This opportunity recognizes that SAAs play a central role in translating federal statutory requirements into effective on-the-ground programming. SAAs are responsible for administering and monitoring formula funds, ensuring subrecipients follow relevant legal and program rules, and supporting programs that are both compliant and effective. Because subrecipients can include a wide range of community-based and system-based partners, SAAs often need consistent guidance on interpreting program requirements, building strong solicitation and award processes, monitoring subawards, collecting and using performance information, and identifying and addressing implementation challenges. The funded TTA providers are expected to help SAAs develop stronger administrative practices and more consistent, informed decision-making that improves the quality and impact of SASP and STOP-funded activities nationwide.

Funding is offered through a cooperative agreement, which typically means OVW will have an active role in shaping, overseeing, and collaborating on the work during the project period, rather than simply issuing a grant with minimal involvement. The award ceiling is $700,000, and OVW anticipates making 2 awards under this initiative. The opportunity is cataloged under CFDA number 16.526, with an activity category of Law, Justice and Legal Services. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2026-172378, and the application deadline is March 3, 2026. The opportunity was created on January 21, 2026.

Eligible applicants are organizations positioned to deliver TTA at a national scale and with enough subject-matter depth to support SAAs administering VAWA formula funding. Eligible entities include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (also other than institutions of higher education), Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), and certain other eligible applicants identified by OVW under the broad "Others" category. OVW is specifically looking for national, Tribal, statewide, or other nonprofit organizations that can demonstrate the capacity, infrastructure, and expertise to provide training and technical assistance to SAAs across the country, rather than localized or single-jurisdiction assistance.

Overall, the initiative is best understood as a capacity-building investment aimed at improving how formula funds are administered and how funded programs perform. By supporting specialized TTA providers, OVW is seeking to strengthen SAAs ability to ensure statutory compliance, improve subrecipient accountability, and promote effective, coordinated community and system responses to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking as addressed through SASP and STOP programming.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Formula Programs Training and Technical Assistance Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.526.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2026-01-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2026-03-03. (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 $700,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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