Cooperative Agreement P15AC01670

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.931 - Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities) will provide $460,848.80 to the Farmworkers Institute of Education and Leadership Development, Inc. to support work education and training opportunities for youth and young adults through cultural landscape repairs and maintenance tasks at Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in California. The project will focus on revitalizing deteriorated areas of the site by...

Save America's Treasures Grant Award Summary The National Park Service (NPS) awarded the National Chavez Center a $970,000 Project Grant on September 23, 2025, under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to fund conservation of the La Paz Collection. This award supports physical preservation and conservation work on nationally significant historic properties and cultural artifacts through a competitive merit-based process administered by the NPS in partnership with the National...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Park Service (NPS), under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), awarded $115,973.33 to Conservation Legacy (doing business as Southwest Conservation Corps) on July 23, 2025, for a project extending through December 31, 2026. The awardee will engage approximately 18–24 local youth participants in trail system maintenance and enhancement activities at Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New...

The National Park Service awarded Conservation Legacy $208,533.28 under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) on September 1, 2022 to provide historic preservation services at Chiricahua National Monument and Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Willcox, AZ through March 2023. Conservation Legacy will utilize its Arizona Conservation Corps to address deferred maintenance on the historic Stafford Cabin at Chiricahua, including replacement of...

The Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded Rocky Mountain Youth Corps a $103,337.02 cooperative agreement under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) from June 14, 2023 to December 31, 2025. Through this award, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps will select and oversee qualified youth participants to be mentored by National Park Service staff in performing vegetation management and fence maintenance repairs at...

The National Park Service (NPS), through the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), awarded a $100,688 Cooperative Agreement to American Conservation Experience (ACE), a non-profit organization, to provide youth with training, place-based learning, trade education, and mentoring focused on trails maintenance and vegetation management on public lands. The project will engage conservation corps participants in hands-on work including vegetation management,...

The National Park Service provided $105,733.30 under a Cooperative Agreement to Conservation Legacy from June 21, 2021 through July 30, 2022. The award was made through the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), which seeks to utilize qualified non-profit youth and veteran serving organizations to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and education projects on Department of the Interior lands. Under this award,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities grant program (CFDA 15.931) provides $285,428.99 to the Friends of Saguaro National Park to recruit, hire, and mentor local youth for paid internships at Saguaro National Park. The purpose of this project is to provide professional development and hands-on experience for youth from underrepresented communities in Tucson, AZ, to gain skills in park management,...

The National Park Service awarded a $198,222.60 cooperative agreement to the American Conservation Experience under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) to support resource protection and restoration efforts at Zion National Park from March 2022 through December 2026. Through hands-on training, ACE corps members will collect native plant materials, conduct seed cleaning and out-planting, treat exotic plants, prepare and maintain fire breaks, and...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Park Service (NPS), under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), awarded Conservation Legacy (operating as Southwest Conservation Corps) a cooperative agreement valued at $102,325.70, effective August 18, 2025 through May 31, 2026. The organization will deploy young adults to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona to execute critical vegetation management and trail stewardship activities on...