Business, Law, Criminal Justice & Management

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Listed in Ascending Order of External Due Dates

(i.e. if it’s listed first, it’s due to the sponsor sooner)

 

Funding Source: NJDOC: Locally, Empowered, Accountable, and Determined (NJLEAD) Reentry Initiative

Amount: Up to $750,000 of available funding – (4 to 10 awards)

Key Deadlines: 02/25/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview: The NJDOC seeks proposals specifying how municipal, county, or state government entities, for-profit and nonprofit community-based organizations, or associations will use funds to implement innovative pre-release evidence-based psycho-educational rehabilitative, discharge planning services, and vocational training or work readiness programs that will increase and improve the ability of incarcerated persons within 364 days of release to achieve successful reintegration and independence.

 

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Funding Source: FY25 The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities

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Key Deadlines: 02/27/2026 (JustGrants)

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview: This funding opportunity seeks to support public safety efforts to reduce deaths and injuries of people living with forms of dementia or developmental disabilities who wander from safe places. The grant program will fund the purchase of tracking technology used to find vulnerable missing persons. It also funds wandering prevention, intervention, and rescue programs. The goal of this grant program is to reduce deaths and injuries with solutions that minimize restrictive interventions, provide a direct link to individuals and families, and impose limits only when essential for a person’s safety and well-being.

 

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Funding Source:  OVC FY25 Housing Assistance for Victims of Human Trafficking – O-OVC-2025-172519

Amount: Up to $1,200,000 per award

Key Deadlines: 03/03/2026 (JustGrants Deadline)

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview: This NOFO will provide funding for housing and support services to victims of human trafficking. The primary focus of this program is to provide rapid rehousing (i.e., transitional housing and supportive services that assist human trafficking victims in moving as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieving stability). Projects under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes: (1) transitional housing, including funding for the operating expenses of a newly developed or existing transitional housing program; and (2) short-term housing assistance, including rental or utilities payment assistance and assistance with related expenses, such as payment of security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing.

 

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Funding Source:  OVC FY25 Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking

Amount: Up to $950,000 per award

Key Deadlines: 03/03/2026 (JustGrants Deadline)

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview:  General purpose of funding is to address the safety, security, and healing of minor victims of sex and labor trafficking, services should be tailored to their specific needs. These young victims are often involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and may have been victimized in multiple ways both before, and during the time they were trafficked. Organizations funded under this program are expected to propose programs adapted to the developmental stages of children and youth.

 

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Funding Source:  OVC FY25 Preventing Trafficking of Girls

Amount: Up to $497,000 per award

Key Deadlines: 03/03/2026 (JustGrants Deadline)

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview: This NOFO will support prevention and early intervention services for girls who are at risk of, or are victims of human trafficking, as defined by 22 U.S.C. § 7102(11) by funding programs to replicate and scale up prevention and early intervention programs for girls and young women who are at risk of, or are victims of, sex and/or labor trafficking. Also, this RFP should implement or enhance efforts to identify and provide comprehensive, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate services to girls/young women who are at risk of, or are victims of, sex and/or labor trafficking. This may include street outreach efforts, partnerships with organizations that serve youth, partnerships with juvenile justice and child welfare systems, and/or collaboration with key community stakeholders.

 

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Funding Source:  OVC FY25 Specialized Human Trafficking Assistance: Supporting Survivor Engagement in Anti-Trafficking Programming

Amount: Up to $1,200,000

Key Deadlines: 03/03/2026 (JustGrants Deadline)

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview: To inform and improve anti-trafficking programming, applicants should propose approaches that help build OVC anti-trafficking grantees’ capacity to identify and partner with survivors in their local community, state, or region. The awardee will deliver training and technical assistance on effective victim service programming for trafficking survivors. This includes intensive support to recipients of each fiscal year’s new human trafficking victim service awards during their first year of implementation, as well as ongoing support for entities implementing existing awards.

 

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Funding Source:  OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Human Trafficking

Amount: Up to $440,000–$950,000

Key Deadlines: 03/18/2026 (JustGrants Deadline)

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview: This NOFO will develop, expand, and strengthen victim service programs for victims of human trafficking, as defined by 22 U.S.C. § 7102(11). This program is intended for victim services programs serving adults or a combination of adults and minors/youth.

 

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Funding Source: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

Amount: $2,500–$50,000 for early-stage grants

Key Deadline: 04/23/2026 and 07/23/2026 – Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through July 2026. A review will be conducted quarterly.

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants – Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Brief Overview: We are primarily, but not exclusively, interested in activities that build connections between basic and early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields, including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions aimed at reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for healthcare, care delivery, and biomedical research.

 

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Funding Source: Robert Spadoni Grant for Business Students seeks undergraduate business entrepreneurs

Amount: $1,000

Key Deadline: 07/15/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Robert Spadoni

Brief Overview: The Grant for Business Students, an annual scholarship established to alleviate financial burdens and recognize outstanding undergraduate talent, is accepting applications for its 2026 award cycle. Founded by veteran healthcare executive and leadership mentor Robert Spadoni, the national scholarship program supports undergraduate business students who demonstrate a powerful vision for merging principled leadership with modern innovation.

 

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Funding Source: Community Foundation of New Jersey invites applications from organizations serving survivors of domestic violence and their pets

Amount: $5,000

Key Deadline: Rolling until 12/30/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Find Grants | Community Foundation of New Jersey

Brief Overview: The foundation accepts Quinn’s Corner Jumpstart Grant applications. These one-time $5,000 grants will help New Jersey groups support domestic abuse survivors escaping with their pets and boost capacity. Use them as: Emergency funds: For survivors and their pets (pet deposit for an apartment, interim pet boarding, vet costs, pet food, etc.). This funding can only be used for direct expenses to support survivors and their dogs, not staff or administrative costs.

 

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