Funding Opportunities

New RFPs support drug and violence prevention

Written by Alex Dunn

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Title: OJJDP FY25 Community and Schools Youth Drug Prevention Program

  • Award amount: $750,000 over 36 months
  • Deadline: October 27, 2025
  • Expected number of awards: 13
  • Cost sharing required: No
  • Eligible applicants: Nonprofits
  • Summary: This NOFO supports the delivery of substance use prevention programs for youth in schools and extracurricular settings in coordination with local law enforcement and community coalitions.

Link to full RFP: https://www.ojp.gov/funding/docs/ojjdp-2025-172454

Title: BJA FY25 Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program

  • Award amount: Up to $2 million
  • Expected number of awards: 79
  • Cost sharing required? No
  • Due date: October 27, 2025
  • Eligible applicants: Nonprofits, institutes of higher education, charter schools, independent school districts, and city, county, tribal, and state governments
  • Summary: This NOFO supports programs designed to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introducing technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or applying other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence.

Link to full RFP: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2025-172466

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Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn is the Millionaire Grant Lady and a social worker. Alex is passionate about behavioral health, education, family and social services and helping organizations to help others. With 15 years of experience in grants and $103 million in grant funding, Alex wants your organization to be able to use grants to meet your mission.

She is the creator of the Area of Focus™ and Core Cultivation™ strategies and the Attractiveness Quotient™ survey for nonprofits. Alex has used these strategies to multiply grant funding for organizations, with a total of $103 million in grant funding to date.

Alex is the author of numerous reports, including “Three Ways Mental Health Organizations Can Increase Their Grant Funding” and “Three Mistakes Well Meaning Organizations Make in Grant Funding”. She is a long-time board member and current president of the Grant Professionals Association North Texas chapter.