This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carryout appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and…

This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carryout appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and educationprojects on department of the interior lands through authorized national park service programs. The claiming freedom project provides a professional development opportunity for two youth interns as they contribute to the 250TH commemoration of the declaration of independence and connect this significant history with 400TH commemoration of africans landing at jamestown, virginia, and the civil rights initiative. Two interns will build upon prior research of other interns associated with other phases of this project to create digital products highlighting stories of freedom seekers from the revolutionary period. These products will explore the meaning of freedom by examining instances of escape from slavery in the revolutionary period. Beneficiaries include private non-profit institutions and organizations public and private non-profit academic institutions state and local government agencies quasi-public non-profit institutions and organizations that support youth and young adult career training and development, and education in the areas of natural and or cultural resource conservation and management. Individuals families students and the general public will receive a benefit from the development and execution of these programs and projects.