Through its previous work with the USDA forest service, NPS and USFWS, GYF has demonstrated its ability to recruit and retain diverse, high?quality candidates for internship positions

The Greening Youth Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $110,000 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters to provide recruitment and placement services under the Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment federal grant program (CFDA 15.676). Through this award, Greening Youth Foundation will recruit and place a diverse pool of U.S. citizen and lawful permanent resident youth and young adult candidates between the ages of 16 to 30 for internship positions with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Greening Youth Foundation will utilize its established networks and recruitment strategies at minority-serving and mainstream colleges and universities to identify candidates that meet the internship requirements. Program managers will work closely with hiring managers to develop clear position descriptions and screening tools to facilitate placement of qualified candidates in the internship opportunities.

These candidates are U.S. Citizens, national, or lawful permanent resident aliens of the united states, meeting the same citizenship requirements as those for serving in americorps and public lands corps. GYF's recruitment and outreach activities are led by its own staff. Its talent marketing strategy begins with direct contact with key partners including on?site college career service departments, educators and staff members. The foundation maintains trusted partnerships with historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and hispanic serving institutions around the county. IT is continually building new relationships with mainstream colleges and universities, expanding its capacity to identify diverse student talent. Greening youth foundation's recruitment and marketing strategy continues with identifying relevant job?related skills, educational needs and work conditions. Staff then work closely with hiring managers to develop clear, concise position descriptions. Program managers use them to develop a tailored pre?screening interview checklist. After completing the position descriptions, program managers can target applicants from mainstream and minority?serving colleges and universities to aggregate a diverse, talented applicant pool. GYF's builds talent recruitment capacity into every project. Each program manager and their direct report project managers are hand?picked for their experience and qualifications surrounding talent acquisition. GYF also performs continuing education exercises designed to keep pace with the changing landscape of recruitment. The GYF team, specifically the program managers, understands the mechanics of in?person and digital recruitment throughout the entire life cycle of the recruitment process.