The National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA), in cooperation with OVC, is seeking proposals for innovative and collaborative approaches to promoting community‐wide public awareness of the rights and available services for victims of all types of crimes during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), April 6–12, 2025.
The 2025 NCVRW theme is—
Connecting < KINSHIP > Healing
Successful applicants will be awarded up to $5,000 each in reimbursement for approved NCVRW public awareness activities through the NCVRW Community Awareness Projects (CAP) program.
Public agencies, nonprofit organizations, community‐based victim service organizations, faith‐based organizations, tribal organizations, and community coalitions committed to advocating for the rights and services of crime victims are among those encouraged to apply.
Over the past 16 years, NCVRW CAP has supported more than 1,600 community projects to raise public awareness about victims’ rights and services. Within many of these communities, NCVRW events were enhanced by the collaborative partnerships formed during each project's planning phase.
Generally, the types of activities supported with NCVRW CAP funds fall into one or more of the following categories—
- a public event at which individual members of the general public physically attend in person (e.g., candlelight vigils, information or resource fairs, 5k walk/runs, memorial services),
- mass media advertising (e.g., newspaper, radio, or television ads, billboards, mass transit or movie theatre ads, including social media), and
- the production, publication, and distribution of printed awareness materials (e.g., brochures, posters, victims’ rights cards, resource directories).
A webinar to assist potential applicants will be held on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. Register for the webinar.
Deadline: Apply by 7:59 p.m. eastern time on Friday, November 8, 2024.