""The grants portals are all closed down," Lauren Schuster, the vice president of government affairs at the Urban Resource Institute (URI), told Jezebel. "There's a deadline for a grant on [October] 16th, for just about a million dollars, through the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)-that's one of the federal agencies that we work with-and we cannot submit that grant unless the government opens up. And with the furloughs that are happening, there's nobody to talk to about any of this.""
"At least two-thirds of the workers at the CDC are absent from their desks, as well as nearly half of the IRS, and about 10% of the Department of Justice's 115,000 employees-many of whom are grant managers that help provide federal support to organizations serving victims of domestic violence. The timing is especially stark, given that October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month."
More than two weeks into the government shutdown, roughly 750,000 federal employees have been furloughed. Two-thirds of CDC workers, nearly half of the IRS, and about 10% of DOJ staff are absent, including many grant managers who support organizations serving domestic violence victims. Federal grants portals are closed and organizations cannot submit time-sensitive grant applications, including a nearly $1 million OVW grant with an October 16 deadline. The furloughing of grant managers diverges from previous shutdown practice and has led some staffers to suggest it may intentionally halt aid flow. The Urban Resource Institute and 2,477 other organizations face severe operational strain, particularly small providers serving marginalized communities.
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