This page highlights current funding opportunities and provides links to additional grant providers and resources where you can explore and learn more about available funding.

2026 Grants

Safer Outcomes: Enhancing Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement

The Safer Outcomes: Enhancing Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement funding opportunity provides approximately $8 million to support the integration of de-escalation and crisis response concepts into law enforcement academy curricula, statewide training standards, and mandated officer training programs. Eligible applicants include law enforcement training academies that provide basic instruction required for sworn officer certification and state-level regulatory bodies, such as Police Officer Standards and Training or Peace Officer Standards and Training Commissions. Awards will support a 24-month performance period with no local match required.

The program is administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) within the U.S. Department of Justice.

Where MILO Fits:
MILO supports training objectives related to de-escalation, crisis response, communication, behavioral health, officer decision-making, and academy-based instruction through evidence-based Live, Virtual, and Cognitive training solutions.

The Grants.gov application is due August 27, 2026, and the full JustGrants application is due September 3, 2026.
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DOJ Model Cities Initiative (MCI)

The Department of Justice’s Model Cities Initiative (MCI) provides nearly $300 million in funding to support comprehensive public safety strategies in two to four cities across the United States. Eligible cities and local government entities serving populations of 100,000 or more may use funding for officer retention, technology and equipment, mental health services, training and professional development, violent crime reduction efforts, intelligence-led policing, and crisis response initiatives.

The program is administered by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The program is administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) within the U.S. Department of Justice.

Where MILO Fits:
MILO supports training objectives related to intelligence-led policing, violent crime investigations, crisis response, decision-making, and officer readiness through Live, Virtual, and Cognitive training solutions.

Applications are due September 1, 2026.
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Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants Program

The Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants Program provides approximately $6.7 million in funding to support innovative demonstration and pilot projects that strengthen community policing. State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies may apply for projects that improve crime reduction, community engagement, problem-solving, organizational effectiveness, officer recruitment and retention, violent crime investigations, human trafficking, child exploitation, cybercrime, drone implementation, and other public safety priorities. Awards are available for up to $200,000 for a 24-month project period with no local match required.

The program is administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) within the U.S. Department of Justice.

Where MILO Fits:
MILO supports training objectives related to violent crime response, investigations, crisis response, officer decision-making, officer readiness, and recruitment and retention initiatives through evidence-based Live and Virtual training solutions.

Applications are due August 17, 2026.
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Additional Funding Resources

Private Foundation Funding

Private foundations offer funding opportunities to support innovative public safety, mental health, and community-based initiatives. These grants can help agencies pilot new programs or expand existing training efforts.

Deadlines and eligibility vary by organization.

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Federal Government Grant Programs

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that will have an unparalleled impact on the grant community.

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United States Department of Justice

The Department of Justice offers funding opportunities for research, supporting law enforcement activities in state and local jurisdictions, providing training and technical assistance, and implementing programs to improve the criminal justice system.

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Community (non-government) foundations listed by state:

http://www.tgci.com/funding/community.asp

Community Foundations are non-profit, tax-exempt, publicly supported grant-making organizations. The foundations are public charities, since they develop broad support from many unrelated donors with a wide range of charitable interests in a specific community.

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Technology Grant

http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=65

The COPS Office has distributed over $ 8 billion to advance community policing since its creation in 1994. This funding supports a wide range of activities. COPS funding helps local law enforcement agencies hire, equip, and train new community policing professionals. COPS funding helps redeploy existing officers into their communities and studies ways to maximize the impact they have on the people who live there. COPS funds a wide variety of strategies to advance community policing through innovative techniques and technologies.

Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/byrne.html

The Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant Program (Byrne Formula Grant Program) is a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities. Grants may be used to provide personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance, and information systems for more widespread apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, detention, and rehabilitation of offenders who violate such state and local laws.