OVC FY25 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Maine | O OVC 2025 172385

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2025 172385

The OVC FY25 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) opportunity for Maine is a restricted, invitation-only federal grant designed to help a jurisdiction respond to the victim service demands created by an incident of mass criminal violence or domestic terrorism. It is administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), and funded through the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve. The basic purpose is to provide supplemental resources when an event is so large or complex that the state or community cannot meet victims needs promptly and comprehensively with existing capacity, while still maintaining services for victims of other crimes.

AEAP support is framed around helping victims in practical, immediate, and longer-term ways following a qualifying incident. The program can fund emergency relief and coordinated victim service responses, help victims and communities cope with ongoing consequences, and support victim participation in the criminal justice process. It can also bolster a state crime victim compensation program when a spike in eligible claims or administrative workload follows the event, including reimbursement-related functions tied to victims out-of-pocket expenses. A key feature is that funding is retroactive to the date of the incident, which is meant to help jurisdictions recover costs and expand services that were needed right away.

This solicitation describes four AEAP grant purpose areas that can be combined into a single application: crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. In practice, that means a single award can cover a range of victim-focused activities, from immediate outreach and short-term supports to longer-term recovery services and assistance that enables victims to engage with investigations, prosecutions, and court proceedings. The solicitation also notes that OVC may provide non-grant training and technical assistance, and may assign a no-cost consultant to help the invited applicant develop and submit an AEAP application.

OVC emphasizes that AEAP is not meant to replace normal victim assistance planning or routine funding streams. The incident must be sufficiently large for the locale and typically involves unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broadly targeted victimization, or some other unique characteristic that creates extraordinary victim needs. By contrast, OVC signals that more predictable or ongoing forms of violence (such as many gang-related incidents, domestic violence, or broader community gun violence) are generally expected to be addressed through existing Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) resources rather than through AEAP. Any budget and narrative justification must make clear that requested AEAP dollars are truly supplemental to existing resources and will specifically benefit victims of the incident that triggered the request.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary grant (funding instrument: grant) under CFDA 16.321, categorized under income security and social services. The opportunity number is O-OVC-2025-172385. The agency is the Office for Victims of Crime. The posted award ceiling is $8,526,240, with one expected award. The closing date listed is 2025-03-24, and the posting indicates it was created on 2025-03-21. Eligibility is listed as "Others," but the most important constraint is that applications are not open-submission: OVC will directly contact potential applicants, and an application may only be submitted after OVC has consulted with an eligible organization. This invitation-only structure reflects the programs intent to respond to specific terrorism or mass violence incidents rather than to operate as a general-purpose victim services funding source.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY25 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Maine" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.321.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-03-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-24. (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 $8,526,240.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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