The National Park Service awarded a $108,719.98 Cooperative Agreement to Mobilizegreen, Inc. under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). The agreement, which runs from May 2024 to March 2025, is designed to utilize qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and career development projects on Department of the Interior lands. Key activities include...
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $210,292.50 Cooperative Agreement to Discover Your Northwest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, under the NPS Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954). The funding will support a three-pronged approach to engage urban communities with their surrounding cultural and natural resources by: Providing culturally responsive visitor services, including interpretive and educational programming; Developing innovative,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $131,999.97 to Conservation Legacy to engage young adults and veterans in natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service projects on Department of the Interior lands. The key objectives are to provide participants with hands-on historic preservation trades experience, support parks with deferred maintenance,...
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,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $243,573.33 to Conservation Legacy, a national non-profit organization, to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and training projects on Department of the Interior lands. The project will engage youth and veterans in hands-on conservation work including trail maintenance, invasive...
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'...
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,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $3,154,430 to Conservation Legacy, a non-profit organization, to engage youth, veterans, and young adults in natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands. Starting in the summer of 2025, the funding will support approximately 50 paid internships ranging from 12 to 52 weeks, focused on...
The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $349,902 cooperative agreement to Capacity Builders Inc. under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). Through this award, Capacity Builders will utilize qualified non-profit organizations to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service projects on Department of the Interior lands. Specifically, the organization will create short-term work and...
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $492,061.77 Cooperative Agreement to the California Wildlife Foundation (CWF) under the NPS Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954). The goal of this 2-year project is to promote resource stewardship and facilitate scientific research, partnerships, and engagement in three Southern California national park units: Cabrillo National Monument, Channel Islands National Park, and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area....