Deadline: 8 May 2014
The United States Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime is inviting grant proposals for the FY 2014 Victim Assistance Professional Development Program-Vision 21 Legal Assistance Fellowship under its funding activity category Law, Justice and Legal Services. The fund under this call is dissiminated for training, technical assistance, demonstration projects, and fellowships. Major objective of the fellowship program is to enhance the efforts of OVC to facilitate the understanding, development, or enhancement of innovative programs, models, practices, and protocols that serve crime victims.
The legal assistance fellow will use her/his legal knowledge and experience in the legal assistance field to provide OVC with technical assistance in the programmatic implementation of various OVC legal assistance initiatives and projects. S/he will work on a range of issues and efforts being undertaken by OVC to build capacity for the provision of free legal assistance to victims of crime following their victimization.
The fellowship is initially awarded for a period of 12 months with probability of extension up to 4 additional years depending upon the fellow’s performance and funding availability. Fellowship amount is up to $140,000 among which $100,000 may be allocated for salary.
Eligibility Criteria –
- Individuals who demonstrate the financial and administrative capacity to manage the cooperative agreement; as well as the desire, knowledge, and ability to execute the development of training, technical assistance, public awareness, and other informational resources successfully to meet the needs of victim service providers and allied practitioners who serve crime victims are eligible to apply for the fellowship.
- Applicants must be attorneys, preferably those who have a few years of experience working on related legal or policy issues, including (but not limited to) services to low-income individuals or pro bono legal assistance, crime victim legal issues, or victims’ legal rights.
- The fellowship awards are not intended to support research or other academic work currently being pursued by an individual or work that the individual would like to undertake and is seeking support to pursue.
- Applicants must register with grants.gov prior to submitting an application.
For more information, please visit grants.gov and search for funding opportunity number OVC-2014-3832. Click on the link to additional information and download the document.
