Fiscal Year 2024 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program | DHS 24 TTP 132 00 99

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The Fiscal Year 2024 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), administered by FEMA in coordination with DHS CP3 (the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships). The program is built around the idea that many acts of targeted violence and terrorism can be prevented if communities have the right prevention infrastructure in place before a person reaches the point of causing harm. CP3 promotes a public health-informed prevention approach that pulls together multidisciplinary local partners such as mental health and behavioral health providers, educators, faith and community leaders, public health and safety officials, social services, nonprofits, and other community-based organizations. The overall goal is to strengthen local capacity to identify and support individuals who may be on a pathway to violence, while also building sustainable prevention systems that can last beyond the grant period and be replicated elsewhere.

This funding is intended to help communities respond to a wide range of current and evolving threats. DHS highlights ongoing concerns about lone offenders and small groups influenced by domestic or foreign violent extremist ideologies, with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism described as a continuing lethal domestic threat. DHS also notes a rise since 2020 in anti-government and anti-authority threats that often focus on law enforcement and government officials, personnel, and facilities. On the international side, DHS points to continued inspiration and direction from foreign terrorist organizations, even as groups like al-Qaida and ISIS have been weakened; their affiliates and networks persist in unstable regions. The program also recognizes the growth in mass targeted violence without a clear ideological motive, including many school shootings, and it calls attention to increased threats and targeted violence against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities and institutions following the renewed Israel-HAMAS conflict, including incidents suspected or identified as hate crimes. In practice, the grant can support projects aimed broadly at preventing all forms of targeted violence and terrorism, as well as projects that focus tightly on the most pressing threat patterns a community is facing.

A major emphasis of the program is addressing pathways to violence in both online and physical spaces. DHS notes that many domestic violent extremists exploit online platforms to spread hateful content, amplify division, and promote narratives that encourage violence. As a result, the TVTP program explicitly supports online, in-person, and hybrid prevention projects, including efforts that tackle online radicalization or mobilization dynamics while still staying grounded in community-based prevention work. The program also supports the development and implementation of state, regional, or community TVTP strategies, which can help jurisdictions formalize coordinated prevention plans across agencies and sectors rather than relying on isolated initiatives.

Eligible applicants are broad and include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; federally recognized tribal governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; and 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than higher education institutions). The funding opportunity is listed under Assistance Listing (CFDA) 97.132. Applications are submitted through the FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO) system at https://go.fema.gov/. The opportunity number is DHS-24-TTP-132-00-99, and the application closing date listed is May 17, 2024. DHS anticipates making about 33 awards, with an award ceiling of $1,500,000 per award.

Program design requirements are strict in a few key areas. First, applicants must demonstrate they have the authority and operational capacity to carry out the proposed work, and that the project aligns with either the Innovation Project Track or one or more project types under the Promising Practices Project Track (these tracks and minimum standards are detailed in Appendix B of the Notice of Funding Opportunity, or NOFO). Capacity is not described in abstract terms; applicants need to show they can actually engage the participants and partners they propose, coordinate across disciplines, and implement the prevention capabilities described in the application.

Second, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties are treated as non-negotiable eligibility requirements rather than general best practices. Applications must explain whether the project will collect personally identifiable information (PII), why it is needed, how it will be used, how long it will be retained, and what safeguards will prevent misuse or discriminatory impacts. The NOFO makes clear that projects cannot profile or target people based on political affiliation or legally protected characteristics such as race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. Projects also must not infringe on First Amendment-protected activity such as free speech or lawful advocacy. Applications that fail to appropriately protect privacy, civil rights, or civil liberties can be deemed ineligible and will not be reviewed or scored.

Third, the application must be complete and follow the required format and content rules. The NOFO directs applicants to Appendix C for required application contents and formatting, and it stresses that performance measures are required for each project type (with measures outlined alongside the tracks and project types in Appendix B). If an application is missing required elements or significantly deviates from the NOFO requirements, it may be ruled ineligible and removed from consideration before scoring.

Finally, the program draws a clear line on research-only proposals. Research can be included as an allowable cost, but projects that solely conduct research without implementing prevention capabilities during the period of performance are not eligible. If research is proposed, the applicant must show how it directly supports implementation, not just knowledge generation. For research involving human subjects, the NOFO includes additional requirements (referenced in Section F.2(e) on protection of human subjects).

In terms of how many times an organization can apply, the program limits submissions to one application per funding track per applicant organization. That means an organization can submit up to two applications total: one under the Promising Practices track and one under the Innovation track. If an organization submits multiple applications within the same track, DHS will only review one of them for that track. The NOFO also clarifies how it treats related entities: affiliated universities within a university system are considered separate organizations for this purpose, and different government entities within the same state or locality (for example, a state Department of Public Safety and a state Department of Health) are also treated as separate applicant entities, allowing each to submit their own applications under the track limits.

Overall, this grant opportunity is designed to help communities move from ad hoc responses to sustainable prevention capability: building partnerships, piloting and scaling practical interventions, addressing both online and offline drivers of violence, and doing it all under tight guardrails that protect privacy and constitutional rights.

• The Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year 2024 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.132.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-01-29.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-17. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 33 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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