Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

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Number of Awards: 243
Total Amount Awarded: $124,679,212

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient Sort descending	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2006	FY06 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY06 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program Grant Announcement	City of Philadelphia	PA	2006-DN-BX-K115	$681,455	Closed
2004	City of Philadelphia DNA Capacity Enhancement Program	DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04	City of Philadelphia	PA	2004-DN-BX-K094	$329,313	Closed
2005	DNA Capacity Enhancement Grant FY2005- Philadelphia Police	DNA Capacity Enhancement Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2005-DA-BX-K104	$382,594	Closed
2005	Philadelphia Police- Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2005-DN-BX-K067	$277,116	Closed
2008	Philadelphia Police- Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant	NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2008-CD-BX-0097	$65,600	Closed
2007	2007 Forensic Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 07 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	City of Philadelphia	PA	2007-DN-BX-K092	$766,204	Closed
2004	Philadelphia Police DNA Caseload Backlog	Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement FY 2004	City of Philadelphia	PA	2004-DN-BX-K088	$1,067,670	Closed
2006	CJIEP Evaluation	NIJ FY06 Information-led Policing Research, Technology Development and Testing and Evaluation Solicitation: Invited Full Applications	County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania	PA	2006-IJ-CX-K027	$122,287	Closed
2004	Pennsylvania Task Force on Prison Overcrowding	National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards - Office of Research and Evaluation	County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania	PA	2004-IJ-CX-0007	$347,725	Closed
2012	Joint Proposal of the Allegheny County Police and Allegheny County Medical Examiner to Solve Cold Cases with DNA.	NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	County of Allegheny	PA	2012-DN-BX-K012	$169,536	Closed
2008	Allegheny County Police - Audio/Video Forensic Unit 2008 Improvement Project	NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	County of Allegheny	PA	2008-CD-BX-0065	$95,000	Closed
2018	Evaluation of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: Long-Term Outcomes and Sustained Impact	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	2017-JF-FX-0055	$750,000	Closed
2017	Evaluating Impacts of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: An Alternative to Arrest Policing Strategy	NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction)	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	2017-CK-BX-0001	$1,081,046	Closed
2002	Proficiency Testing and Procedure Validation for FDEs	Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grant - FY2002	Drexel University	PA	2002-LT-BX-K008	$296,226	Closed
2021	Reducing School Violence and Enhancing School Safety: Implementing and Evaluating the Positive School Safety Program for School Climate Staff	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2021	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	15PNIJ-21-GG-02978-RESS	$846,480	Open
2023	A Statewide Mixed-methods Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s 8th Edition Sentencing Guidelines and their Impacts on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Outcomes	NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01365-NIJB	$730,834	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2008	Supporting State and Local Law Enforcement in Cybercrime Investigations and Computer Forensics	NIJ FY08 Office of Science and Technology Congressionally Directed Awards	East Stroudsburg University Center for Research and Economic Development	PA	2008-DD-BX-K013	$212,408	Closed
2010	The Cybercrime and Forensics Institute: Supporting State and Local Law Enforcement in Cybercrime Investigations and Computer Forensics	NIJ FY 10 Congressionally Directed Awards	East Stroudsburg University of PA	PA	2010-DD-BX-K039	$500,000	Closed
2008	DIGITAL EVIDENCE: Computer Forensic Training for the Changing Face of Crime	NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program	Edinboro University of Pennsylvania	PA	2008-DN-BX-K376	$238,056	Closed
2017	Retrospective Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Forensic Toxicology Casework using Archived High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Fredric Rieders Family Foundation: CFSRE	PA	2017-R2-CX-0021	$494,695	Closed
2017	Toxicological Time Travel: Retrospective Datamining of Analytical Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Data for Evaluating the Rise and Fall of Novel Opioid and Fentanyl Analog Use in the United States	NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime 2017	Fredric Rieders Family Foundation: CFSRE	PA	2017-DN-BX-0169	$499,005	Closed
2018	Development of a Comprehensive Workflow for Postmortem Insulin Testing in Cases of Suspected Insulin Homicide	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2018-75-CX-0039	$299,529	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Identification of Anticoagulant Adulterants in Seized Material and Biological Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2019-DU-BX-0020	$412,100	Closed
2020	Assessment of the Contribution to Drug Impaired Driving from Emerging and Undertested Drugs	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0009	$478,783	Closed
2020	Comparative Assessment of Emerging Technologies for Body Fluid Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0015	$501,115	Closed