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

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $816,899.48 to support a project carried out by the non-profit organization American Conservation Experience. The project will engage young adults and veterans in natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service activities on Department of the Interior lands. Key activities include developing updated templates and training for NPS staff on the Park Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation (NAGPRA) program, as well as assisting the NAGPRA program manager with responding to inquiries, monitoring program email, and working with databases and processes. The project performance period runs from May 16, 2024 to December 31, 2026.

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 park native american graves protection and repatriation (nagpra) program fellow will work with the NPS park nagpra program manager and the NPS bureau cultural anthropologist to develop updated templates and training for NPS staff on the updated nagpra regulations. Training will be provided in NPS content management systems as needed. The fellow will also be trained to assist the program manager to respond to basic inquiries from park staff, monitor program email, and work with program databases and processes. . Beneficiaries include private non-profit institutions and organizations public and private non-profit academic institutions state and localgovernment agencies quasi-public non-profit institutions and organizations that support youth and youngadult career training and development, and education in the areas of natural and or cultural resourceconservation and management. Individuals families students and the general public will receive a benefitfrom the development and execution of these programs and projects.