Cooperative Agreement P20AC00139

The National Park Service (NPS), through its Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), awarded a $3,305,803 cooperative agreement to Conservation Legacy to support the Scientists in Parks Program. The program provides opportunities for participants to complete internship projects in national park units that address natural resource issues and meet management needs. Projects objectives and outcomes are defined by the benefiting NPS unit and advance interns'...

This $666,665 cooperative agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.931 - Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program) will engage Indigenous youth and young adults in meaningful conservation projects at National Park Service sites across the country. The project is operated by Conservation Legacy and its Southwest Conservation Corps program, which specializes in delivering workforce development, training, and hands-on conservation experience on public lands....

The National Park Service has awarded a $106,666.67 Cooperative Agreement to Conservation Legacy under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). Through this award, Conservation Legacy, through its Southwest Conservation Corps program, will carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and training projects on Department of the Interior lands. Key activities will include trail maintenance, invasive species removal,...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award P25AC00173, funded by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), provides $176,400.00 to Conservation Legacy (doing business as Southwest Conservation Corps) to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and training projects on Department of the Interior lands. The award, effective from January 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, will engage youth and...

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $306,667 cooperative agreement (P24AC00064) to Conservation Legacy, a national non-profit organization, through the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). This 2-year award supports natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands. Key activities include repairing and stabilizing masonry walls at Tuzigoot Pueblo and Montezuma Well, as well as restoring a pre-contact irrigation...

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 (NPS) awarded a $826,000 FY2024 Cooperative Agreement under the National Wildland Fire Management and Natural Resource Training and Workforce Development program (CFDA 15.969) to Conservation Legacy, operating primarily through its Southwest Conservation Corps program. The award will engage up to 24 recent-era U.S. veterans in fire management and natural resource conservation activities across NPS regions in the Intermountain, Northeast, and Southeast. The Veterans Fire...

The National Park Service awarded Conservation Legacy $198,371.22 under a Cooperative Agreement from March 1, 2021 to September 2, 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 appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education projects on Department of the Interior lands. Under...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $180,000 from the National Park Service's Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) will support Conservation Legacy, a non-profit organization doing business as the Southwest Conservation Corps, to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands. The project will provide hands-on conservation and invasive plant management experience to several young adults, including...

The National Park Service awarded a $437,402 Cooperative Agreement under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) to Capacity Builders Inc., a non-profit organization based in Farmington, New Mexico. The agreement aims to create short-term work and training opportunities for qualified Native American students between the ages of 18-30 (or up to 35 if a veteran) to assist NPS staff with priority interpretation, education, outreach, community relations,...