Funding available for groups serving Native American Populations in California

California has opened an application process for organizations to apply for funds through the Federal Victims Of Crime Act (VOCA). If you are a Native American tribe, tribal nonprofit/community-based organization, or tribal consortium operating within a Tribal Court system in California, you may be eligible to apply through this RFP process.

The maximum grant award is $200,000.

Through our VOCA Funding Toolkit, and assistance from our Grassroots Capacity Building Specialist, EJUSA can help groups determine if they are eligible to apply, answer questions about the process, and provide some technical assistance for your group’s application. Please contact Latrina Kelly-James at latrinakj@ejusa.org or (203) 823-5826 or download the toolkit here.

Full information about California RFP process:
http://www.caloes.ca.gov/pages/Grant-Details.aspx?itemID=143&ItemTitle=2017-18%20Native%20American%20Tribal%20Court%20Advocate%20(KT)%20Program%20RFP

Note: the deadline is August 15th

Our VOCA project works to bring racial equity to victim services by helping community groups serving crime survivors in communities of color to gain access to new resources. We provide training, technical assistance, and capacity building to these community groups so they know what federal VOCA funds are and how to get them.

By Latrina Kelly-James

Latrina leads national training initiatives, expansion of our Police/Community Trauma program, and manages capacity-building strategies for local and state partners and, grassroots groups in Black and Brown communities. She is the former director of Charlotte Drug-Free Coalition where she led harm-reduction policy strategy, as well as the former deputy director and interim executive director for Junta for Progressive Action, an anti-poverty/immigrant advocacy organization, where she helped lead the creation of a statewide immigrant rights coalition. A past fellow with the Justice Policy Network, Latrina does this work for her ancestors and her children.