Howard and Carol Safir Foundation and UVA Seek Proposals to Fund Public Safety Innovations
Urban Policing, Drug Enforcement & Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration
The University of Virginia Center for Public Safety and Justice and the Howard and Carol Safir Foundation are Seeking Proposals for a New Public Safety Research Initiative Grant Program.
The University of Virginia’s (UVA) Center for Public Safety and Justice (CPSJ) is pleased to invite proposals for the Howard and Carol Safir Foundation (HCSF) Public Safety Initiative. This initiative is designed to support forward-thinking innovation in public safety. We seek projects that address long-standing, current, or future public safety challenges and extend beyond traditional approaches and introduce new methods, strategies and solutions to some of the most pressing and complex challenges facing the field. Priority will be given to proposals that test, pilot, or refine innovative practices with strong potential to generate meaningful, measurable improvements in public safety outcomes.
The HCSF Public Safety Initiative plans to fund three innovative projects, called “Innovation Labs,” one in each of the following categories: (1) Urban Policing, (2) Drug Enforcement, and (3) Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration. Each selected project will receive up to $50,000 over a two-year period and will culminate in a Public Safety Innovation Symposium hosted at UVA. At the symposium, awardees will share findings, insights, and tools with an audience of researchers, public safety leaders, and practitioners from across the country.
Photo: Howard Safir and his daughter
Media release from Marvin Ben Haiman, Executive Director of the Center for Public Safety and Justice:
REMINDER: Two Weeks Remaining. Innovation in public safety matters. Help share the word about a new initiative from the UVA Center for Public Safety and Justice, in partnership with the Howard and Carol Safir Foundation. Together, we are launching a new funding opportunity to support innovative public safety projects of up to $50,000.
Projects will align with one of three focus areas: Urban Policing, Drug Enforcement, or Advancing Safety and Justice Across Jurisdictions. Letters of Interest are due May 1, 2026.
Please consider applying or sharing this opportunity with others in your network who may have an innovative public safety idea.
Please see the flyer below and the link for full details and submission information:
scps.virginia.edu/center-public-safety-and-justice
“Many thanks to the full team at UVA Center for Public Safety and Justice, Jenna Tyler, Joshua Ederheimer, Adam Safir, Jennifer Safir, Melissa Maybury Lubin, PhD and Jessica Robertson”, said Marvin Ben Haiman.
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