Office on Violence Against Women Funding for the Research & Evaluation Initiative – Now Accepting Applications! (Due 09/25/25)
Posted: 9/18/2025 ()
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 R&E Initiative NOFO is open!
On behalf of the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), we are reaching out with information you and your organization may be interested in regarding OVW’s Research and Evaluation (R&E) Initiative.
OVW’s R&E Initiative is designed to study approaches to addressing and preventing domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. By studying the efficacy of strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable, the R&E Initiative helps communities assess their current programs and adopt proven strategies. The initiative is designed to support researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs.
For FY 2025, OVW encourages R&E Initiative applicants to address one or more of the following topics, which are described in full in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): evaluations of VAWA-funded interventions; evaluations or systematic reviews of trainings, strategies, policies, practices, tools, and other means of fostering trauma-informed law enforcement and prosecutorial responses to sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, and stalking; evaluation of the effectiveness of training curricula, tools, and other technical assistance (TA) resources developed and implemented with OVW grant funds; evaluations of emerging innovations for serving victims and holding offenders accountable; secondary data analyses related to domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking; and research, evaluation, and data analysis related to domestic violence homicide prevention. This year’s R&E Initiative topic areas include a $5 million funding opportunity to evaluate Abby Honold Act-funded programs.
Important Dates and Information
- Letter of Intent: September 1, 2025, by 11:59 PM Eastern Time (ET) to OVW.Research@usdoj.gov.
- Application deadline for Grants.gov: September 23, 2025 – 11:59 p.m. ET
- Application deadline for JustGrants: September 25, 2025 – 8:59 p.m. ET
If you have questions, please reach out to the OVW Performance, Assessment, Research, and Evaluation (PARE) Unit at OVW.Research@usdoj.gov or R&E Program Analyst, Caitlyn Largent at Caitlyn.Largent@usdoj.gov. We also invite you to stay up to date with all OVW announcements by signing up for our emails here, and following us on social media: we’re on X/Twitter and LinkedIn.
Deadline: 09/01/2025