Assistance program
Community Relations Service
$0 committed in FY2021–FY2021
- Agency
- Community Relations Service, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Provision of Specialized Services
- CFDA number
- 16.200
- What it does
- 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.
- Who benefits
- 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.
- Who applies
- 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.
- Authorized by
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C 2000g et seq.). Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, Public Law 09-111-84, 18 U.S.C 249.
- Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
- Program site
- http://www.usdoj.gov/crs . ↗
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