Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Program | DHS 20 TTP 132 00 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Program is a discretionary grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through FEMA. Its purpose is to fund prevention-focused efforts that reduce the risk of terrorism and targeted violence by strengthening local capabilities, building coordinated prevention systems, and supporting programs grounded in credible research while also safeguarding privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. The program is designed to move prevention work closer to the community level by helping organizations and governments create practical structures for identifying risk, intervening early, and reducing the likelihood that individuals mobilize to violence.

This grant program is explicitly tied to a set of national and departmental strategies that frame prevention as a shared responsibility across federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. The TVTP program supports implementation of the September 2019 DHS Strategic Framework, which itself builds from the December 2017 National Security Strategy (including a priority action to enhance local terrorism prevention capabilities) and the October 2018 National Strategy for Counterterrorism (which emphasized countering terrorist recruitment and radicalization and called for a nationwide prevention architecture). In other words, the TVTP program is positioned as a practical funding mechanism to help communities operationalize broader national prevention goals.

Funding is organized into three application tracks: Local Prevention Framework, Replication, and Innovation. While the source text does not spell out every detail of each track, the structure suggests three distinct pathways: one aimed at building or strengthening local prevention systems and partnerships (Local Prevention Framework), one aimed at scaling approaches that have already shown promise elsewhere (Replication), and one aimed at developing and testing new approaches to prevention challenges (Innovation). Across all tracks, the program emphasizes solutions that can be implemented in real communities, are informed by evidence, and are designed with strong protections for individual rights.

The program objectives align with Goal 3 of the DHS Strategic Framework. The main objectives supported by this funding include strengthening societal resilience against factors that can contribute to violent extremism and improving broad awareness of the threat of terrorism and targeted violence. Another objective is countering the influence of terrorists and violent extremists online, reflecting the reality that recruitment, radicalization, and mobilization dynamics often involve digital spaces. A further objective is developing prevention frameworks with state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) partners to improve their ability to identify and respond to individuals who may be at risk of mobilizing to violence, which commonly involves coordinated threat assessment and management approaches. The program also supports the development and implementation of recidivism reduction programming for individuals convicted of crimes related to terrorism and targeted violence, signaling that prevention is not limited to early intervention but also includes efforts to reduce reengagement in violence after conviction.

Two stated priorities stand out for FY20. The first priority is establishing and enhancing local prevention frameworks, with a particular emphasis on threat assessment and management capabilities. This points to investments in multidisciplinary processes and partnerships that can evaluate concerning behaviors, connect individuals to appropriate services, and manage risk in a structured, accountable way. The second priority is preventing domestic terrorism through innovation, indicating a focus on new strategies, tools, or program models that address evolving domestic threat dynamics. The opportunity also directs applicants to research and resources (referenced as Appendix D) to support the design of project proposals, reinforcing the preference for evidence-based planning rather than ad hoc programming.

Eligible applicants are broad and include various levels of government and community-serving institutions: state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education under that specific nonprofit category). This eligibility range reflects the program's intent to support prevention work in multiple settings where risk identification, community support, education, and intervention capacity can realistically be built, such as schools, campuses, local governments, housing systems, and nonprofit service networks.

Key administrative details include the funding opportunity number DHS-20-TTP-132-00-01 and CFDA number 97.132. The opportunity was posted March 30, 2020, with an original application closing date of May 29, 2020. The award ceiling is listed as $1,500,000 per award, and the program anticipated making around 50 awards. The activity categories associated with the grant are intentionally wide, spanning community development, education, health, employment and training, social services, science and technology, and research and development, among others, which signals that prevention projects can be multidisciplinary and may combine public safety coordination with public health, behavioral health, education, and community-based supports.

Overall, the FY20 TVTP program is aimed at helping communities build durable, rights-respecting prevention capabilities that reduce the risk of targeted violence and terrorism. It prioritizes local prevention infrastructure (especially threat assessment and management) and encourages innovative approaches to preventing domestic terrorism, while requiring applicants to ground proposals in evidence and to take privacy and civil liberties protections seriously as part of program design and implementation.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the arts (see cultural affairs in cfda), community development, disaster prevention and relief, education, employment, labor and training, health, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), information and statistics, income security and social services, regional development, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Program" 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 Mar 30, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 29, 2020. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 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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