Reports and Statistics

American Indians and Crime
This report, written by Steven Perry and published by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Statistics, highlights the crime rates and types of crimes committed against American Indian and Alaska Natives. This report represents a compilation and analysis of data on the incidents, prevalence, and consequences of violent crime among American Indians. The report uses data from a wide variety of sources, including statistical series maintained by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigineous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA
This report, published by Amnesty International, is the result of research conducted in three locations with different policing and judicial arrangements. It is a rather graphic and horrifying look at the failure to protect and prosecute American Indian and Alaska Native women from sexual violence. It details the systemic failure to punish those responsible and the barriers that Native women face.

Maze of Injustice: One Year Later
This report, published in 2008, details the impact of the original Maze of Injustice report, and highlight what steps have been taken to reduce sexual violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women. It outlines promising initiatives on the state, federal, and tribal level and highlights crucial areas that still need to be addressed.

Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and the Criminal Justice Response: What Is Known
This 2008 report provides an overview of the epidemiology of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women as well as an accounting of the criminal justice responses to this violence. It updates statistics of American Indian and Alaska Native women as well as highlights some of the barriers these women face. This report gives more statistical detail than previous reports, but highlights the need for better evalution of programs to see if there is truly an impact on program effectiveness.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Charity Channel (http://charitychannel.com)
Grants announcements, management articles, consulting support, volunteer management support, and board development information.

Rural Assistance Center (http://www.raconline.org)
Located at the University of Nebraska, this site provides information about rural entrepreneurship projects and a listing of available grants for rural areas.

The Grantsmanship Center (http://www.tgci.com)
Excellent resource for up to date announcements from the Federal Register. Excellent training resource for grant writers.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy (http://philanthropy.com)
Bi-weekly newspaper about the world of private foundations and funding. Excellent resource for trends and ethics discussions.

The Foundation Center (http://fdcenter.org)
The Foundation Center, most well known for their extensive libraries about private foundations. Used to be large and cumbersome tomes now is online and on CD.

Department of Justice (http://www.usdoj.gov)
The primary government agency providing assistance for law enforcement and victim advocacy.

Office of Justice Programs (http://www.ojp.gov)
A resource for victim assistance and law enforcement programming.

Federal Grants Notification (http://www.grants.gov)
E-mail each day with funding annoucements.

Grants for Non-Profits (http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/2sgalpha.htm)
An excellent resource for all kinds of funding information. Some of the information is centered on the Michigan area, but most is applicable to all areas of the United States.

Afterschool.gov (http://www.afterschool.gov/feddollar)
This database is sponsored by AfterSchool.Gov, part of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, gives you one stop for information about more than 100 sources of federal funding for after-school and youth development programming.

Office for Victims of Crime (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc)
This is the website for most funding services for victims of crime from the Department of Justice.

Office on Violence Against Women (http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw)
This is the website for funding and other resources for services for domestic violence and sexual assault victim services.