Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) | DHS 22 TTP 132 00 01

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The Fiscal Year 2022 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant is a discretionary Department of Homeland Security program (administered through FEMA) designed to help communities build practical, lasting capabilities to prevent targeted violence and terrorism before attacks occur. The grant is grounded in the idea that today s most serious threats often come from lone actors or small groups who mobilize to violence based on a wide mix of ideologies and grievances, including racially or ethnically motivated extremism, anti government or anti authority beliefs, and other personal or societal grievances. The program also reflects how strongly the online environment now shapes radicalization and mobilization, with misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and conspiracy narratives often accelerating anger, distrust, and calls for violence. In short, the TVTP program is aimed at prevention upstream, strengthening communities ability to recognize risk early, coordinate help and intervention, and reduce pathways into violence.

The opportunity emphasizes that domestic violent extremists are viewed as the most persistent terrorism related threat in the United States, with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, including white supremacists, expected to remain among the most lethal. At the same time, DHS highlights a rise since 2020 in anti government and anti authority violent extremism, including militia violent extremists, who may target law enforcement, elected officials, and government facilities. The grant also acknowledges continuing risks from foreign terrorist organizations that may attempt to conduct attacks in the United States or inspire individuals in the United States to do so as homegrown violent extremists, even as groups like al Qaeda and ISIS have been degraded and pushed into more diffuse networks and affiliates. Layered onto these threat trends are pandemic related stressors and societal tensions, including grievances about public health measures and perceived restrictions, which can heighten vulnerability to extremist narratives.

Programmatically, TVTP is built around a whole of society prevention approach aligned with Goal 1 of the DHS Strategic Plan and informed by key national policy documents, including the September 2019 Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence, the March 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, and the June 2021 National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism (specifically Strategic Goal 2.1 on strengthening domestic terrorism prevention resources and services). The grant supports local, online, and hybrid prevention efforts and reserves part of its funding for innovative approaches, signaling an interest in projects that test or scale promising practices rather than only funding traditional models.

The core objectives focus on building local prevention frameworks and the day to day infrastructure that makes prevention workable. That includes raising awareness about why and how individuals radicalize or mobilize to violence, training and equipping community members to engage a broad set of local stakeholders, and ensuring communities have access to multidisciplinary threat assessment and management teams. It also stresses closing the gap between awareness and action by making sure people know who to contact when they are concerned and understand how threat assessment and management teams function. Finally, the grant encourages programs that address underlying risk factors and connect at risk individuals to services that support threat management strategies, rather than relying solely on enforcement responses. Throughout, DHS emphasizes that funded projects must protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties, and applicants are pointed to NOFO resources such as research references, logic models, and performance measurement guidance to help design credible, measurable proposals.

FY22 TVTP identifies several clear priorities for funding decisions. One priority is implementing prevention capabilities in small and mid sized communities, reflecting a recognition that smaller jurisdictions often lack specialized prevention staff, formal threat management structures, or tailored programming. Another priority is advancing equity in awards and engaging underserved communities in prevention, encouraging applicants to design efforts that are inclusive, culturally informed, and accessible to communities that may be under resourced or historically less connected to government funded prevention initiatives. A third priority is addressing online aspects of terrorism and targeted violence, supporting work that confronts how extremist recruitment and mobilization can happen through digital platforms, including projects that blend online interventions with community based support. A fourth priority is preventing domestic violent extremism and enhancing local threat assessment and management capabilities, pushing applicants toward concrete improvements in how communities identify, assess, coordinate, and manage concerning behaviors and potential threats.

In terms of basic grant facts, the funding opportunity is listed as DHS 22 TTP 132 00 01 under CFDA 97.132. Eligible applicants are broad and include state, county, and city governments; special districts; independent school districts; public and state controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments; public housing authorities; and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations (other than institutions of higher education). The notice lists an award ceiling of 2,000,000 dollars and an expectation of roughly 35 awards. The opportunity was created on April 12, 2022, with an original application closing date of May 18, 2022. The activity categories span community development, education, health and social services, and law and justice related work, reflecting the program s prevention focus and its expectation of multidisciplinary partnerships rather than a single sector response.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the arts (see cultural affairs in cfda), community development, education, employment, labor and training, food and nutrition, health, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), income security and social services, law, justice and legal services, regional development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.132.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 12, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 18, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 35 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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