Applications
will be graded on the extent to which
they meet the following criteria:
- Experience
in victims' issues. The lead agency
of the project should have a history of involvement
with crime victims. (5 points)
- Project
description. The
application should describe a creative and innovative project
that will have an impact on the general community at
large, rather than
to a narrow or select audience and that uses
the media (radio, television, print, billboards, etc.) and other materials to raise
general public awareness about
National Crime Victims' Rights Week, victims' rights,
and local
victim
service programs. (30 points)
- Relationship to NCVRW. Applications
will be graded on the proximity of proposed eventsand activities to NCVRW, April 10 - 16, 2011 and on the extent to which projects utilize
and highlight the national
theme, logo
and
colors of NCVRW. The official
colors for the 2010 National Crime Victims Rights
Week are Yellow and Teal. (20 points).
- Collaboration
and support. The
application should describe a project in which a
variety of victim service providers, public officials
and local businesses collaborate to promote
victims' rights and services for victims of all types of crimes.
The application should describe the types of
financial and
in-kind support from participating agencies and local businesses
for this specific project. (15 points)
- Involvement
of crime victims and survivors/diversity. The
project should provide meaningful
opportunities for crime victims and survivors to participate
in and provide guidance to the proposed project throughout
its planning and implementation stages. The project should
target victims of all types of crime in a community,
including victims in minority and immigrant communities. (15 points)
- Budget. The
requested project budget should be sufficiently detailed
with clearly defined costs for all activities and items to
be
purchased.
All
costs should be reasonable and directly related to project
activities. See "Requirements" and "Frequently Asked Questions" for
examples of allowable and unallowable costs, services and
activities. (15 points)
Final
recommendations for funding will be based upon several
factors in addition to the strength of the applications which
will be graded as described above. These
factors include:
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