The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) has announced the availability of $11.5 million in state Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) funding. 

Out-of-school-time programs interested in obtaining the funding must apply for it by the end of the day on Monday, January 26.

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The goal of the FY 2025-26 Violence Intervention and Prevention and Building Opportunities Through Out-of-School Time (BOOST) grants is to support a variety of local community violence prevention and intervention strategies, including upstream prevention for at-risk school-age youth.

For the current fiscal year, a total of approximately $60 million in state funding for VIP has been directed to the PCCD for providing grants and technical assistance to address community violence. 

Community violence is defined as intentional interpersonal violence – such as gun violence, group-related violence, or domestic or intimate partner violence – in areas of the state with high rates of firearm-related violent crime or injury.

VIP funding is intended to support community violence intervention strategies designed to address violence that is already occurring in communities.

Additionally, Act 45 of 2025 (Fiscal Code) directs PCCD to reserve at least $11.5 million of appropriated VIP funds for BOOST grants, which support statewide and local out-of-school time programming for at-risk school-age youth.

The maximum award amount under the FY 2025-26 VIP and BOOST solicitation will be $500,000 or no more than 50% of an organization’s annual operating expenditures, whichever is less. The maximum award amount is the total grant amount an applicant can request over the entire 36-month project period, and is not a per-year amount for each year of the project period.

For more information, read the PCCD announcement on the funding.