Shannon CSI Local Action Research Partners Program

The Shannon Community Safety Initiative Local Action Research Partner funding opportunity is offered by the Massachusetts Office of Grants and Research within the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. The broader Shannon Community Safety Initiative Grant Program incorporates key elements of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Comprehensive Gang Model. The program supports regional and multidisciplinary approaches intended to combat gang violence through coordinated prevention and intervention, law enforcement, prosecution, and reintegration type programs. Within this structure, Local Action Research Partners provide research, analytic, technical, and strategic assistance to Shannon Community Safety Initiative program sites. Local Action Research Partners are expected to assist the Shannon Community Safety Initiative site program director, steering committee, and funded program partners. Their role includes providing strategic thinking, critical analysis, technical and research support, and continuous feedback. This assistance is intended to improve or maintain program operations and help ensure that the goals of funded Shannon Community Safety Initiative programs remain within scope, on schedule, and within budget. The source does not specify individual allowable or prohibited cost categories, an award floor, an award ceiling, total program funding, the anticipated number of awards, or any required cost share or matching contribution. Eligibility is available to public and quasi-public entities and to nonprofit research entities established to fulfill a primary public purpose. The source does not identify a narrower geographic service area within Massachusetts or provide additional organizational eligibility conditions beyond these entity requirements. It also does not state requirements concerning organizational size, years of operation, fiscal sponsorship, or other capacity thresholds. Related funding opportunities identified on the page include the Shannon Community Safety Initiative for youth programming and the Shannon Community Safety Initiative Statewide Research Partner opportunity. The application materials identified by the Office of Grants and Research are the Shannon Community Safety Initiative Local Action Research Partner AGF, the Shannon Community Safety Initiative Local Action Research Partner Application, and the Shannon Community Safety Initiative Local Action Research Partner Budget Worksheet identified as Attachment A. A Letter of Intent has a specified deadline and therefore represents a pre-application requirement in the published timeline. The supplied source does not provide the contents of the application questions, detailed submission portal instructions, scoring criteria, weighted evaluation factors, or a direct PDF URL for the solicitation or application materials. Applicants should therefore rely on the identified official application materials for requirements not reproduced on the supplied page. The AGF was posted on August 14, 2026. Questions are due by September 4, 2026, and the Letter of Intent deadline is September 10, 2026. The final application is due September 25, 2026, no later than 4:00 p.m.; because no time zone is specified, the deadline is treated as Eastern Time under the applicable data-entry rules. Award notification is tentatively scheduled for December 2026. The tentative performance period is January 1, 2027, through December 31, 2027. The supplied source does not state that this Local Action Research Partner solicitation recurs annually or on another regular schedule, so no recurrence or future-cycle date is inferred. The listed contact is the Program Coordinator. No individual person's name is provided in the contact section. The official contact email is emily.haines@mass.gov and the telephone number is 781-535-0079. The page also provides resources for current Shannon Community Safety Initiative Local Action Research Partner funding recipients and expressly states that those recipient resources are intended for current grant recipients and should not be submitted with requests for funding. Applicants should focus their submissions on the designated Local Action Research Partner application materials and the published deadlines.

Demonstrate capacity to provide strategic thinking, critical analysis, technical and research support, and continuous feedback that helps funded programs remain within scope, on schedule, and within budget. Do not submit resources designated for current grant recipients with the funding request.