To be eligible for grants provided as part of this solicitation, applicants must satisfy the following criteria:

• Serve immigrant or refugee communities;
• Have strong refugee and immigrant involvement and a trusted relationship with refugee and immigrant communities and their leaders;
• Have current programs or recently funded programs that include IPV prevention—as defined above—in refugee and immigrant communities;
• Applicants, or their partners, should have prior experience in prevention of IPV;
• Consist of a single organization or a partnership which will include one lead agency, and one or more partnering agencies;
• Applicants should provide sociocultural and linguistically competent services that aim to change local norms that can cause IPV;
• Have community representation or participation in a leadership position and/or meaningful advisory role for the program;
• Funded sites must be located within the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories.

Applicants may be large national organizations with local, community level branches; local community-based organizations; grassroots community partnerships; consortia of community-based organizations focusing on health care, welfare, human rights
or other related fields; or ethnic/cultural organizations addressing IPV. Programs need not exclusively target IPV to be eligible.

Applicant Requirements
Applicants:

• must be a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code;
• cannot be a private foundation as defined under Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code; and
• must show a commitment of staff resources and time, and the organizational capacity to continue program evaluation and actively utilize results.