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Here are two new federal grant opportunities that were recently announced. These opportunities could be a strong fit depending on your organization’s mission and goals.
Title: OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Consolidated Grant Program to Assist Children and Youth Affected by and to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
- Funding Agency: Office on Violence Against Women
- Projected number of awards: 30
- Award range: up to $500,000
- Due date: September 8, 2026
- Cost sharing required? No
- Who is eligible? Entities that are eligible to apply are: Units of local government (e.g., city, county), Agencies of a unit of local government (e.g., Police Department, Department of Parks and Recreation), Nonprofit, nongovernmental entities, Indian Tribal governments, Tribal organizations, Victim service providers, Independent School Districts, and Faith-based organizations.
- Summary: Grants support community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies addressing the needs of children and youth (ages 0-24) affected by domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking. It also supports work with men and youth to prevent those crimes.
Link to full RFP: https://www.justice.gov/ovw/media/1452571/dl?inline
Title: Technology Enhanced Adoptive Family Recruiting and Matching
- Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
- Projected number of awards: 4
- Award range: up to $2,674,000
- Due date: Aug 21, 2026
- Cost sharing required? No
- Who is eligible? Nonprofits, for profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and governments
- Summary: This program will fund projects focused on technology-enabled strategies that improve adoptive matching, placement, and permanency for children in foster care awaiting adoption. The funds, awarded to four regional centers, will be used to design, implement and evaluate these strategies. These centers will focus on children with an adoption permanency goal or who are legally free for adoption due to child welfare involvement. Centers will partner with state, territorial, tribal, and local child welfare agencies and courts to develop secure, accessible technology solutions that improve how families are matched with children in need of permanent homes. Proposed solutions must be interoperable with existing systems and may include tools such as data-informed recruitment support, AI-assisted matching, and predictive analytics. Each center will strengthen data infrastructure, support continuous quality improvement, and develop scalable resources that jurisdictions nationwide can adopt. ACF will define four national service regions to ensure full U.S. coverage. Centers will provide regional innovation support, training, technical assistance, and dissemination of best practices while collaborating nationally on shared learning. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate measurable improvements in match timeliness, placement stability, and adoption finalization outcomes.
- Link to full RFP: https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00293729-instructions.pdf
