Opportunity Information: Apply for 20CS20
The grant opportunity titled "Development of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) Black Letter Standards of Practice" is a National Institute of Corrections (NIC) funding notice issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. It is important to understand that this announcement is not a typical competitive solicitation. Instead, NIC is publicly notifying its intent to support a specific project through a cooperative agreement without full and open competition. In practical terms, that means NIC is not inviting a broad pool of applicants to submit proposals in the usual way; it is signaling that it plans to make a targeted award for this work.
The project focuses on developing APPA "Black Letter Standards of Practice." In professional and legal settings, "black letter" standards generally refer to clearly stated, widely accepted baseline principles or standards. In the context of probation and parole, this kind of work typically aims to clarify and document standard practices that can guide agencies and practitioners, promote consistency across jurisdictions, and support better outcomes in community supervision. While the notice does not provide technical workplan details in the excerpt provided, the title indicates the central deliverable would be a set of formal standards of practice associated with APPA, a nationally recognized organization in the probation and parole field.
From an administrative standpoint, the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement. This matters because cooperative agreements are commonly used when the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement in the project, such as participating in planning, providing ongoing guidance, reviewing deliverables, and coordinating with key stakeholders. The opportunity is categorized under "Other" for both the opportunity category and the funding activity category, with the latter indicating there is an additional explanation field in the original posting (not included here) that would clarify what "Other" means for program classification purposes.
The opportunity number is 20CS20, and the associated CFDA number is 16.603, which corresponds to NIC programming. The posting was created on June 5, 2020, with an original closing date of July 6, 2020. Even though this is not a request for applications, those dates typically reflect the public notice period and related administrative timelines for documentation and transparency.
Financially, the award ceiling is listed as $90,000, and NIC expects to make one award. That combination strongly suggests a single, defined scope of work intended for one recipient rather than multiple grants spread across several sites or organizations. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with the note that additional eligibility details would be found in a separate field in the full listing. In notices like this, that often indicates the intended recipient may be a specific type of entity or a particular organization with subject-matter expertise, and the agency is using this notice to meet public reporting requirements while proceeding with a noncompetitive award.
Overall, the notice communicates a focused NIC investment to support the creation or refinement of APPA standards for probation and parole practice, using a cooperative agreement structure, with up to $90,000 in funding and a single anticipated award, and it explicitly clarifies that it is not an open competition or a general call for proposals.Apply for 20CS20
- The Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Development of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) Black Letter Standards of Practice" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.603.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 05, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 06, 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 $90,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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