This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) provides $450,000.00 in funding to River Network, a non-profit organization, to deliver technical assistance, information sharing, and guidance to locally based organizations working on waterway revitalization projects. The key goals of these projects are to enhance habitat, expand outdoor recreation opportunities, and strengthen community resilience...
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $998,603 Cooperative Agreement on December 20, 2024 to City Parks Alliance, Inc. under the NPS Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954). This program supports projects that further the mission of the NPS in natural and cultural resource conservation, protection, and environmental sustainability. The Cooperative Agreement will fund projects through December 20, 2027 that collaborate with the City Parks Alliance's...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $543,000.00 and awarded by the National Park Service on January 15, 2025, supports natural resource stewardship activities under the NPS's Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944). The award recipient, C & O Canal Trust Inc., will work in priority natural landscape blocks and unique plant communities to promote forest resiliency through the management of invasive plant species, surveying and monitoring of forest pests, and...
The U.S. National Park Service awarded a $181,992 Cooperative Agreement to Child And Family Services Of Northwestern Michigan, Inc. on April 17, 2024 under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). Through this funding, the non-profit organization will engage youth members to serve on various conservation projects in the Midwest region over the summer of 2024, with a final completion date of December 31, 2024. The project activities are expected to...
This $1,599,860.90 Cooperative Agreement, awarded on September 19, 2024 by the National Park Service (NPS) under the NPS Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954), supports a project by the Rock Creek Conservancy, Inc. to enhance climate resilience and promote forest regeneration in National Park areas. The project involves integrated management actions including strategic invasive plant removal, native tree planting, endangered species protection, and selective...
This $210,292.50 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service (CFDA 15.954 - National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education) supports a project by Discover Your Northwest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, to engage urban communities with their surrounding cultural and natural resources. The project will take a three-pronged approach, providing: 1) culturally responsive visitor services, including interpretive and educational programming, 2)...
The National Park Service, under its Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), awarded a $204,212.55 cooperative agreement to the National Council For Preservation Education Inc. from July 2021 through December 2025. The awardee will carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education projects on Department of the Interior lands through its National Council For Preservation Education division. This...
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 awarded a $144,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) to the Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St. Croix & Namekagon, a non-profit organization based in Osceola, Wisconsin. The project, with a period of performance from August 27, 2024 to December 31, 2025, aims to further the mission of the National Park Service in natural and cultural resource conservation, protection, and environmental...
This $400,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service under the CFDA 15.954 National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program will fund the River Network to evolve the Urban Waters Learning Network. The project will provide technical assistance and peer learning opportunities to urban water practitioners, such as community groups, non-profits, local governments, and tribes, who are impacted by issues like water quality, habitat and wildlife...