16.200: Community Relations Service
Alternate Name: CRS
Overview
Program Number
16.200
Status
Inactive
Last Modified
Sept. 12, 2017
Date Posted
Sept. 23, 2012
Objective
To provide free Federal conciliation and mediation services to communities in preventing and resolving community tensions, conflicts, and civil disorders arising from actions, policies, and practices that are perceived to be based on race, ethnicity, or national origin. No funds are granted to outside organizations to provide these services. With the passage of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, CRS is authorized to assist communities to prevent and respond to alleged violent hate crimes committed on the basis of actual or gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
Type of Assistance
Z - Salaries and Expenses
Applicant Eligibility
CRS provides services without cost assistance to representatives of groups or communities or Federal, State or local government agencies that seek to resolve, reduce or prevent conflicts related to race, ethnicity, or national origin. CRS does not provide grants to communities for conciliation and mediation assistance programs.
Beneficiary Eligibility
CRS does not provide grants to communities, but beneficiaries may include any group, community, or Federal, State or local government agency that experiences tensions involving race, ethnicity, or national origin.
Grant Awards
Community Relations Service direct grants
Grant Opportunities