Second Chance Act Community-Based Reentry Incubator Initiative

Link

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2025-172327

Additional Links

Notice of Funding Opportunity (Grants.gov)

Deadline

Application Deadline: Mar 4, 2025

Sponsor

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

Purpose

Provides funding to a nonprofit organization serving as a financial intermediary to community-based reentry programs. The awardee will make subawards to smaller community-based organizations (CBOs) to enhance the delivery of transitional support services to people leaving incarceration and grow their organizations' capacity to do the same. In fiscal year 2025, this program will specifically focus on organizations that provide transitional services to exonerees. For the purpose of this opportunity, exonerees are defined as people leaving incarceration or with prior correctional involvement due to judicial error and aiming to restore basic rights, privileges, and benefits. The awardee will also offer training and technical assistance to subawardees, including fiscal and administrative oversight of subawardees' funding, subject matter expertise, and project management support.

Additional information on program goals and objectives can be found in the funding announcement.

Subawards may support the following:

Salary
Equipment and materials
Training opportunities
Travel costs
Curriculum development
Assessment tools
Organizational policies and procedures, such as wellness plans, to support reentry service provider staff

Amount of Funding

Award ceiling: $4,000,000
Project period: 60 months
Estimated number of awards: Up to 1
Estimated total program funding: $4,000,000

Applicants should propose budgets that pass-through at least 70% of the award to subawardees and retain 30% to support their work as an intermediary and technical assistance provider.

Award amounts for subawardees will range from $50,000 to $150,000.

Who Can Apply

Eligible applicants include nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

Recipients will determine eligibility and selection criteria for subawards.

Priority consideration is given to:

Proposals that advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization
Applications that have an independent process evaluation

Geographic Coverage

Nationwide

What This Program Funds

Capacity Building • Equipment • Operating Costs and Staffing

Application Process

Application instructions, requirements, and other information about the online application process can be found in the funding announcement.

Applications must be submitted electronically through a 2-step process:

Step 1: Applicants will submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by the March 4, 2025 deadline.
Step 2: Applicants will submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by the March 11, 2025 deadline.

Contact

For questions on submitting in grants.gov:
800-518-4726
support@grants.gov

For questions on submitting in JustGrants:
833-872-5175
JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov

For programmatic and technical questions:
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Response Center
800-851-3420
TTY at 301-240-6310
grants@ncjrs.gov

Topics This Program Addresses

Re-entry and Community Supervision