Forthcoming Funding Opportunities

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects to inform development of evidence-based tools, practices, and policies for state, tribal, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies that address drug trafficking, drug markets, and drug-related violence. The research priorities for this FY 2022 solicitation are narcotics-related:

• Money laundering
• Weapons and violent offenses
• Criminal networks

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects on three topics:

• Optimizing workforce development for jail personnel.
• Enhancing jail operations to provide criminal justice services.
• Examining the impact of jails on justice-involved individuals and the larger community.

The primary goal of this solicitation is to build a body of knowledge on jails at the local level to inform development of policy and practice to improve outcomes for jail staff, persons who are incarcerated, and local communities.

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding in two categories: (1) new tribal-researcher capacity-building (TRCB) planning grants and (2) research and evaluation proposals from previous TRCB grantees (i.e., Fiscal Year [FY] 2018, FY2019, FY2020) based on the results of the activities funded under the original planning grant. Under Category (1), NIJ will provide small planning grants to fund applicants to develop new and innovative criminal and juvenile justice research studies involving federally recognized tribes and tribally-based organizations representing a new tribal-researcher investigator partnership. NIJ defines a new partnership as a newly developed partnership where a relationship did not previously exist. Therefore, NIJ will not consider applications that do not involve a new tribal-researcher investigative partnership (i.e., a pre-existing partnership or project continuation).