Opportunity Information: Apply for SFOP0005952
The PROACT: Community-Based Intervention Program grant opportunity (SFOP0005952) is a U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) initiative designed to stand up a new, tailored community-based intervention program in a country facing credible threats from foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) or homegrown violent extremists. The central idea is early prevention: the program targets individuals who appear highly vulnerable to terrorist radicalization or who are showing warning signs, but who have not committed terrorism-related crimes. Rather than focusing on arrests or prosecutions, the opportunity emphasizes coordinated local prevention, referral pathways, and supportive interventions that can redirect people before they cross legal thresholds into criminal activity.
The project is structured around six core objectives that together describe what CT expects the program to build and prove. First, the program must develop a sustainable, community-driven strategy to help local stakeholders recognize and understand early warning signs of radicalization in the local context. This is explicitly meant to include a broad set of actors beyond security services, such as social service providers, mental health practitioners, educators, faith leaders, local government officials, and NGOs. The goal is to create shared situational awareness and practical understanding so that potential concerns are identified earlier and handled responsibly.
Second, the program must recruit and organize a diverse set of stakeholders into a multidisciplinary community interventions team capable of managing referred cases. Referrals are expected to come from community channels, including families, schools and universities, and other community-based sources, in addition to the team itself. This objective signals that CT is looking for a functional team model that can receive concerns, assess risk, and coordinate appropriate non-criminal interventions, relying on multiple professional perspectives rather than a single institution.
Third, the program must build awareness and trust across the stakeholder landscape, including between community actors and law enforcement, and also among service providers inside the intervention team. This objective highlights a common barrier in prevention work: communities may be reluctant to engage if they fear stigmatization or punitive consequences, while law enforcement and service providers may lack established relationships and clear roles. The grant is therefore aiming for an operating environment where information-sharing, referrals, and collaboration can happen with credibility, clarity, and safeguards.
Fourth, CT expects the program to increase the capabilities and confidence of community team stakeholders through training and technical assistance. This includes strengthening practical skills to respond to recruitment and radicalization dynamics, as well as establishing consistent practices for case handling, risk assessment, service coordination, referral management, and ethical considerations. In other words, the program is not only about forming a network on paper, but also about ensuring the network can competently act when real cases arise.
Fifth, the program must develop and implement a sustainability strategy for the community team model. This means the project should not depend indefinitely on external funding or temporary personnel, and it should make a credible plan for how the intervention team will continue operating over time. Sustainability can involve institutionalizing partnerships, integrating the model into existing local systems, clarifying long-term ownership, identifying ongoing funding or in-kind support, and creating local capacity so the approach persists after the award period ends.
Sixth, the program must create a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework to assess effectiveness. CT is looking for an evaluation approach that goes beyond activity counts and speaks to outcomes such as sustained stakeholder engagement, institutionalized local partnerships, adoption or promotion of the community-team model with local and/or national partners, and reduced support for terrorism among beneficiary populations. This objective indicates that implementers are expected to define measurable indicators, collect credible data, and use findings to improve programming and demonstrate impact.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement, which typically implies substantial involvement from the funding agency during implementation compared to a standard grant. The opportunity is associated with CFDA number 19.701. The award ceiling listed is $2,250,000, with CT expecting to make one award. The opportunity was posted June 5, 2019, with an original closing date of July 30, 2019. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional clarification referenced in the full notice, which usually means applicants may include certain types of organizations (often NGOs, international organizations, academic institutions, or similar entities), but the exact eligibility conditions would need to be confirmed in the full solicitation.
Taken together, PROACT is essentially a prevention-focused counterterrorism capacity-building effort that tries to operationalize a community-led intervention model: sensitizing local actors to warning signs, building a multidisciplinary referral and response team, strengthening trust and coordination (including with law enforcement), equipping stakeholders through training and technical support, planning for long-term continuation, and measuring whether the approach is being institutionalized and whether it contributes to lowering community vulnerability to extremist recruitment and pro-terrorism sentiment.Apply for SFOP0005952
- The Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "PROACT: Community-Based Intervention Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.701.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 05, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 30, 2019. (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 $2,250,000.00 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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