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

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.931 - Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities) provides $137,585.56 to Mobilizegreen, Inc., a non-profit organization, to develop an innovative digital Junior Ranger program to connect youth with the National Historic Trails administered by the National Trails Intermountain Region.

The project involves a 38-week term of full-time remote work by a youth fellow, who will gain mentorship and experience in interpretation, education program development, and partnership work. The goal is to create an engaging digital program that will benefit private non-profit institutions, public and private non-profit academic institutions, state/local government agencies, and the general public by connecting them to natural and cultural resource conservation and management on Department of the Interior lands.

This program utilizes 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 through authorized national park service programs. National trails intermountain region (NTIR) has created a youth partnership program virtual fellowship position to develop an innovative and engaging digital junior ranger program to connect youth with the national historic trails administered by the office. The fellow will be expected to serve a 38-week term of full-time remote work (funding to support two terms of this length), gaining mentorship and experience in interpretation education program development, and partnership work. 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.