Description
The Washington State Department of Commerce is seeking proposals for the Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Innovation Fund 2026-27. The JAG Innovation Fund is designed to provide funding to new programs, practices, and ideas within the primary JAG Purpose areas. The fund will support project proposals with budgets up to $150,000 per project. Proposals should include a technical proposal, management proposal, cost proposal, and diverse business inclusion plan. The evaluation criteria include technical proposal (80 points), management proposal (15 points), and cost proposal (5 points).
• The JAG Innovation Fund priorities include organizational or program capacity building, new ideas, projects or promising practices, enhancing system and community collaborations, expanding or supplementing existing programs or practices, and strategic planning processes, and data collection and evaluation.
• The JAG Innovation Criteria include a new or adapted approach in the region or community, an approach to address a specific community problem or need, data-driven strategies and best practices, and a description of the potential for the project to be brought to scale or replicated across communities.
• Collaboration is encouraged, including cross-sector, multidisciplinary partnerships with organizations such as violence intervention service providers, city or county leadership, local public health agencies, community-based organizations, court personnel, juvenile justice agencies, law enforcement, school-based law enforcement, district attorneys, public defenders, victim advocates/service providers, child welfare and social services, hospitals and other health care providers, mental health services, researchers, school administrators, faith-based organizations, and community residents.