2008 NCVRW Community Awareness Projects

Criteria

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 and experience in organizing educational events and/or public awareness campaigns.
  • Project impact. The application should describe an innovative project that will have an impact on the general community at large, rather than to a narrow or select audience, during or in close conjunction with National Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 13 - 19, 2008.
  • Public awareness. The application must describe a project that includes using the media (radio, television, and/or print) to raise awareness throughout the community about National Crime Victims' Rights Week, victims' rights, and local victim service programs. Applications will be graded on the extent to which projects utilize and highlight the national theme and colors of NCVRW. The official colors for the 2008 National Crime Victims Rights Week are Blue/Violet, PMS 273C and Deep Green, PMS 575.
  • 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-ki nd support from participating agencies and local businesses for this specific project.
  • Involvement of crime victims and survivors/diversity. The application must indicate willingness to 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.
  • 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.

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: