Funding Sources
for Corporate, Community, Departmental and Individual Efforts
Canadian
The National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC) within the Department
of Justice is responsible for implementing the National Strategy
on Community Safety and Crime Prevention in partnership with the
Department of the Solicitor General of Canada.
While you would think such an organization would have a desire
to combat telemarketing fraud, they have refused to provide even
a link to this site's information stating that such a crime in
not within their mandate of concern.
National Crime Prevention Centre
The National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention
St. Andrews Tower
284 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ont.
K1A 0H8
Toll-free: 1-877-302-6272 (NCPC)
Tel: (613) 941-9306
Fax: (613) 952-3515
E-mail: ncpc@web.net
http://www.psepc.gc.ca/prg/cp/index-en.asp
The National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention
is aimed at reducing crime and victimization by addressing their
root causes through a social development approach.
Crime prevention through social development (CPSD) is a long-term,
proactive approach. It is directed at removing those personal,
social and economic factors that lead some individuals to engage
in criminal acts or to become victims of crime. This approach aims
at strengthening the quality of life for individuals, families
and communities. CPSD is intended to increase positive attitudes
or behaviour in individuals by influencing their experiences in
areas such family, life, education, employment, housing or recreation.
The National Strategy is investing in projects that address risk
factors in people's lives, such as abuse, violence, poor parenting
and drug and alcohol abuse. The National Strategy priority groups
are children and youth, Aboriginal people and women's personal
security.
The Safer Communities Initiative is designed to assist Canadians
in undertaking crime prevention activities in their communities.
To achieve this objective, the Initiative has the following four
funding components:
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Community
Mobilization Program
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Crime
Prevention Investment Fund
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Crime
Prevention Partnership Program
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Business
Action Program on Crime Prevention
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Community Mobilization Program
To assist local organizations including government, the private
sector, volunteers and the media to work in partnership in undertaking
initiatives that deal with crime and its root causes. Proposals
should include the financial or in kind contributions of all partners
and must demonstrate the commitment of local community leaders
to crime prevention, and should increase public awareness and support
for crime prevention.
Funding is available for non profit groups to the sum of $50,000
per project for seminars, public awareness, educational and resource
materials as well as training. The project should stress
the root causes of the crime, be local vs. national in nature
and aid social development.
Business Action Program on Crime Prevention
This program is where national and provincial non-profit private
sector groups ( business and professional associations ) work in
partnership along with the Government of Canada in addressing the
problems related to crime in Canada.
Supported activities include seminars, development of resource
material, training and public awareness activities that are regional
or national in nature.
Funding is available in the amount of $100,000 per year per project
for such items as personnel, transportation, materials, equipment,
evaluation, data collection and must include details on matching
funding.
Application forms are available in html format at the above website
and upon completion are judged by a panel consisting of an alliance
of participants from various business sectors.
Crime Prevention Partnership Program
Aimed at developing community-based responses to crime and to
assist communities throughout Canada to develop programs and partnerships
that will prevent crime in the first place with an emphasis on
building federal, provincial and community partnerships.
The Safer Communities Initiative is designed to assist Canadians
in undertaking crime prevention activities in their communities
by promoting partners to reduce crime and victimization, to assist
community-based solutions and to increase public awareness.
By developing crime prevention tools needed by many communities,
significant savings can be realized in terms of both human and
financial costs. This program aims to support the involvement of
organizations that can contribute to community crime prevention
activities that can be applied across Canada through the development
of information, tools and resources that facilitate community participation
in all phases of crime prevention.
Activities supported include the provision of expert advice and
consultation, seminars and conferences, training and professional
development, research and development of resources and materials
Requirements include organizational mandates which include crime
prevention, must show a commitment to community partnerships, be
transferable to other locations and provide an outline on sharing
of information.
Funding is available for up to $200,000 per year up to three years
Public
Security in Québec - Crime prevention funding programs,
activities and online publications.
United States
Telemarketing Fraud Against the Elderly Technical Assistance and
Training
Grantees: NAAG, APRI, the
American Association of Retired Persons Foundation, and
the National White Collar Crime Center FY99 Funding: $2 million
OJP Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Project Description: This award will continue BJA’s support
of a consortium of prevention, education, and prosecution projects
aimed at thwarting fraudulent telemarketers preying on senior citizens.
A major component of the project is the State/Local Telemarketing
Fraud Training Task Force, a multi-agency committee led by the
National Association of Attorneys General that includes the National
District Attorneys Association through the American Prosecutors
Research Institute, the National White Collar Crime Center, and
the American Association of Retired Persons Foundation.
Project goals are to broaden criminal and civil enforcement efforts
by increasing the number of state and local telemarketing prosecutions;
coordinate statewide and local investigations and prosecutions;
enhance technical and case preparation assistance for state and
local prosecutors; and increase U.S.–Canadian cooperation
to reduce the cross-border flow of telemarketing fraud.
Over $1.7 million in Justice Department grants will go towards
helping train state and local law enforcement and prosecutors to
combat telemarketing scams and other forms of fraud against the
elderly.
The Department of Corporations of California has been awarded
a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department
of Justice to lead a multi-agency attack on illegal and fraudulent
telemarketing operations. The grant is one of five projects nationwide
to support innovative approaches to fight the ongoing problem of
telemarketing fraud.
Senior Citizens Against Marketing Scams Act Funding
In 1994, the Congress passed the "Senior Citizens Against
Marketing Scams Act." That legislation earmarked funds for
the Department of Justice [DOJ] to "conduct, in cooperation
with State and local law enforcement agencies and senior citizen
advocacy organizations, public awareness and prevention initiatives
for senior citizens."
DOJ selected the National Association of
Attorneys General [NAAG] to coordinate a law enforcement training
initiative on telemarketing fraud. NAAG’s partners in this
venture are the National White Collar Crime Center and the American
Prosecutors Research Institute [APRI], which serves as the research
arm for the National District Attorneys Association.
The primary goal is to provide telemarketing fraud prosecution
training to front-line state and local prosecutors and investigators
throughout the US. They hope to increase
the number of prosecutions and the number and severity of criminal
sanctions against fraudulent telemarketers. In 1998, over 250 prosecutors
and investigators from all fifty states and Canada attended this
training.
$4.0 million has been allocated for the FBI’s Senior Citizens
Against Marketing Scams (SCAMS) initiative, for the United States
Attorneys to prosecute SCAMS fraud cases,
and for OJP’s Telemarketing Fraud Against Seniors program,
authorized in the Crime Bill to provide grants to State and local
law enforcement agencies and senior citizen advocacy groups for
public awareness and prevention.
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