Current Funding Opportunities
NIJ is accepting applications for the following solicitations. Solicitations are presented in order of application deadline with the solicitation with the nearest deadline first.
Posted: January 31, 2012
Application Deadline: April 20, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: January 31, 2012
Application Deadline: April 20, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: February 22, 2012
Application Deadline: April 23, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
NIJ seeks proposals for funding for the FY 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Program. This program provides funding to States and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to process, record, screen, and analyze forensic DNA and/or DNA database samples, and to increase the capacity of public forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples, thereby helping to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis.
Forms and Examples
To ease the application process, we have created a Program Narrative Form and an example application including a completed
program narrative, budget narrative and budget detail worksheet. Download the forms and examples:
- DNA Backlog Reduction: Program Narrative Form (pdf, 15 pages)
- Example Program Narrative (pdf, 15 pages)
- Example DNA Backlog Reduction Budget Narrative (pdf, 3 pages)
- DNA Backlog Reduction Detail Budget Worksheet (xlsx, 102 KB)
- Example Budget Detail Worksheet (xlsx, 108 KB)
We will be using this Review Checklist (pdf, 21 pages); please make sure your application has included all necessary components.
Posted: January 24, 2012
Application Deadline: April 23, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
NIJ seeks proposals for funding to conduct an evaluation of the impact of NIJ's body armor research program on law enforcement policy and practice in the United States beginning with the program's inception in the early 1970s through today. This program involves the development of improved body armor. It also involves the development of standards to measure the performance of body armor and a testing program to help ensure that the armor sold to law enforcement agencies is safe and effective.
Posted: January 25, 2012
Application Deadline: April 24, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: January 26, 2012
Application Deadline: April 25, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: January 26, 2012
Application Deadline: April 25, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: January 26, 2012
Application Deadline: April 25, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: January 27, 2012
Application Deadline: April 26, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
NIJ seeks proposals for research and evaluation on specific issues related to sexual violence, stalking, and teen dating violence. The issue areas for sexual violence research are the criminal justice response to particular underserved populations, the development and testing of instruments with diverse populations, and testing of innovative interventions aimed at improving initial criminal justice responses to victims of sexual violence. Priority areas for research on stalking are evaluating offender interventions specific to stalking behavior by current or former intimate partners, and law enforcement and prosecutorial actions regarding particular stalking issues. In the area of teen dating violence (i.e., adolescent relationship abuse), applications are sought for additional waves of data for existing longitudinal projects.
Posted: January 24, 2012
Application Deadline: April 30, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
NIJ seeks applications for funding for research to examine issues related to the criminal justice system, specifically the function and process of the system from detection and arrest through offender reentry. Specific focus areas under this solicitation include three separate and distinct topic areas:
- Research on District Attorneys' pretrial diversion programs.
- A pilot study on the impact of incarceration on families.
- Research on the impact of video visitation on offender outcomes.
Applicants must clearly identify the topic area to which the application is responding. Applicants may submit to any or all topic areas; however, applications must be responsive to the specific requirement of the topic area selected. Applications that fall outside of the three topic areas will not be considered.
Posted: January 30, 2012
Application Deadline: April 30, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: February 2, 2012
Application Deadline: May 2, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
NIJ seeks proposals for funding under the Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program, which provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited academic universities that offer research-based doctoral degrees in disciplines relevant to NIJ’s mission.
The GRF program is intended to support universities that sponsor students who are in the final stages of graduate study. Awards are granted to successful applicants in the form of a grant to cover a doctoral student fellowship. Currently, the GRF fellowship is $25,000.
Posted: February 2, 2012
Application Deadline: May 2, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: February 17, 2012
Application Deadline: May 17, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.
Posted: February 17, 2012
Application Deadline: May 17, 2012 11:59 PM eastern time.


