OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Violence Against Women Act Measuring Effectiveness Initiative - Request for Required Documents

The Office on Violence Against Women, within the U.S. Department of Justice, is issuing the Violence Against Women Act Measuring Effectiveness Initiative - Request for Required Documents under funding opportunity number O-OVW-2026-172703. The opportunity is a federal discretionary cooperative agreement associated with Assistance Listings 16.026, OVW Research and Evaluation Program, and 16.526, OVW Technical Assistance Initiative. This request is specifically directed to the University of Southern Maine and is intended to provide continuation funding for an existing project rather than establish a broadly competitive applicant pool. The purpose of the request is to provide the University of Southern Maine with 3600000 dollars in continuation funding for the final 16-month budget period of a 60-month project. The final budget period runs from September 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. During this period, the University of Southern Maine will continue work supporting OVW's collection, management, analysis, and use of information submitted through grantee performance reports. The work is intended to ensure that OVW has timely information for grant monitoring, oversight of federal funds, Congressional reporting, and responses to data requests. The funded scope includes reviewing, cleaning, and analyzing data collected from grantee performance reports and maintaining that information in a database. The University of Southern Maine will continue working with OVW to fulfill Congressional reporting requirements and respond to requests for data. The project also includes providing training and technical assistance to OVW grantees on collecting information needed to assess their own effectiveness and on accurately completing their performance reports. A significant component of the remaining project period is completion of a streamlined performance reporting tool for OVW grantees. The University of Southern Maine will also facilitate the launch and maintenance of a public dashboard summarizing performance reporting data. No separate cost sharing or matching contribution is required. Grants.gov identifies eligible applicants as Public and State controlled institutions of higher education and Others, with the latter category referring applicants to the additional eligibility information. That additional information makes the scope substantially more specific by stating that the institution from which OVW is requesting required documents is the University of Southern Maine. Accordingly, this opportunity should be treated as a targeted request to the University of Southern Maine rather than an open competition for all organizations that might otherwise fit the general Grants.gov applicant categories. The opportunity was posted on August 19, 2026, and the current and original closing date for applications is August 20, 2026. Grants.gov provides an Apply function for the opportunity, but the supplied source does not state a separate application opening date, pre-application deadline, letter of intent requirement, concept paper requirement, or other preliminary gating step. The source describes the submission as a Request for Required Documents but does not enumerate the individual required documents, application questions, narratives, attachments, or evaluation criteria. No recurring application cycle or future competition is identified. OVW expects one award with total program funding of 3600000 dollars. The award floor and award ceiling are each 3600000 dollars, consistent with the stated continuation funding amount for the University of Southern Maine. The project period covered by this continuation funding is September 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. The source does not provide a separate award notification date. Questions may be directed to OVW at OVW.Research@usdoj.gov or 202-307-6026. The source provides the OVW website as the full announcement link but does not provide an explicit direct PDF URL.