The goal of the Sexual Violence Prevention Grant Program is to support activities that stop sexual violence from occurring by making sure that all Minnesotans have a fair and just opportunity to achieve health and safety.4 This can be achieved by improving conditions in the environments where Minnesotans are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age.5 Program activities are required to focus on at least one of the following three priority areas:
• Strengthen economic supports for individuals and families
• Create protective environments
• Promote social norms that protect against violence
Proposed activities should be clearly linked to one or more focus areas above. Applicants are also encouraged to focus on activities that will promote community-level and/or societal-level change (described in more detail on page 12). Activities that focus on individual-level change can be proposed. However, activities that target community-level change and/or societal-level change will be scored higher than activities that target only individual-level change.
partnership may designate one organization as a fiscal agent.