Skip to main content

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

16.047

Program objective

Goal(s): The goals of the Community-based Approaches to Prevent and Address Hate Crime Program are to (1) Develop and enhance comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes, speech, and incidents that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase victim reporting, and improve prevention efforts and responses to hate crimes; and (2) Develop and enhance activities to de-escalate community tension, empower community efforts for conflict resolution, and strengthen community resiliency. Objective:The Community-based Approaches to Prevent and Address Hate Crime Program provides funding to • Invest in community-led initiatives that prevent hate crimes through conflict resolution, community empowerment, and education • Support programs that result in increased reporting of hate crimes to law enforcement or other trusted community institutions • Establish and disseminate a catalogue of various initiatives, efforts, and activities that have been implemented by communities to address hate crimes to promote replication • Develop pathways for more grassroots organizations to access federal grant funds to prevent and address hate crimes • Create a variety of ways to elevate the work and voices of community leaders and organizations that have implemented these programs (at conferences, in written materials, through social media or other media content, etc.). Performance Measure 1: Number of times the grantee organization conducted outreach efforts or distributed educational materials to the stakeholder community and members of the public Performance Measure 2: Number of victims engaged in services

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    Committee of 100 (C100), New York, NY:

    Funding from award allowed C100 to purchase and program software (Salesforce) to build a database to collect and track Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island individuals and communities in New York City. Anyone who feels they are a victim of this type of harassment or violence can submit an incident report (https://www.aapihatetracker.org/s/?language=en_US&activateLanguage=true) to the tracker.  C100 would not have been able to build such a comprehensive tool without BJA funds.

    Committee of 100 and The Asian American Foundation Jointly Launch Database to Report and Track Incidents of Hate and Bias Against the AANHPI NYC Community - Committee of 100 available here: https://www.committee100.org/media-center/committee-of-100-and-the-asian-american-foundation-jointly-launch-database-to-report-and-track-incidents-of-hate-and-bias-against-the-aanhpi-nyc-community/

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

See the current fiscal years’ program solicitation available at the Office of Justice Programs web site (http://ojp.gov/funding/Explore/CurrentFundingOpportunities.htm. For additional guidance, please reference the Department of Justice Grants Financial Guide (http://ojp.gov/financialguide/DOJ/index.htm) and Post award Instructions (http://ojp.gov/financialguide/DOJ/PostawardRequirements/index.htm). Applicable administrative requirements and Department of Justice regulations applicable to specific types of grantees can be found in title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (2 C.F.R.).

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • American Indian
  • Anyone/general public
  • Asian
  • Black
  • Child (6-15)
  • Education (0-8)
  • Education (13+)
  • Education (9-12)
  • Infant (0-5)
  • Local
  • Major Metropolis (over 250,000)
  • Mentally Disabled
  • Migrant
  • Minority group
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other Non-White
  • Other Urban
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease)
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Refugee/Alien
  • Rural
  • Senior Citizen (60+)
  • Spanish Origin
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • Sponsored organization
  • Suburban
  • U.S. Citizen
  • Veteran/Service person/Reservist (including dependents
  • Women
  • Youth (16-21)

Additional resources