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)...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), funds internships for cultural resource projects in the Alaska Regional Office of the National Park Service. The $113,834.37 award to the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE), a non-profit organization, will support interns who will work on various cultural resource projects related to areas such as anthropology,...
The National Park Service awarded $500,000 under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program to Sealaska Heritage Institute Inc. to complete a project assisting in the preservation of historic resources. The funding will support carving two totem poles to document the traditional practice and installing them in a totem pole trail. As the sub-awardee, Sealaska Corporation will assist in delivering the project scope. The project is scheduled to be completed by September 30, 2025,...
This $221,862.15 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), provides support to the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) to facilitate student internships focused on cultural resource conservation and museum collection management. Through this award, NCPE will place interns at NPS sites to assist with activities such as document conservation, digitization, artifact...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award for $228,133.00, provided by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, will support several key objectives: Integrate climate change considerations into the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program (IMD) to provide climate exposure metrics and impact analyses to inform the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (CCVA) and adaptation planning across the...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), supports youth development and participation for youth crew members at Olympic National Park. The $337,576 award from September 2024 to September 2025 will fund projects focused on surface and structural repairs on trails and campgrounds. The State of Washington's Department of Ecology, the awardee, will...
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $299,750 Cooperative Agreement under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) to the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO), a nonprofit organization. The award, effective from September 3, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will support a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities focused on cultural resource stewardship, including inventory, monitoring, research, rehabilitation, restoration,...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service's Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts program (CFDA 15.071) will provide $1,279,640.00 to the Sealaska Heritage Institute, Inc. to support its Northwest Coast Arts Development and Training Program. The program aims to enhance Northwest Coast art programs, instructional opportunities, collaborative academic offerings, and overall enrichment of Northwest Coast art for Alaska students and...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $366,496.00 from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) will engage six young adults in hands-on conservation work at Olympic National Park. The project will focus on trail and campground maintenance, providing participants with training and experience in cultural and natural resource protection while addressing critical infrastructure needs in the park. Deliverables include repaired...
The Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $1,034,036 Cooperative Agreement under its Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) to the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO), a nonprofit organization, on July 25, 2023. The goal of this 5-year project is to foster partnerships that explore, create, and modify tools to incorporate climate change information, guidance, mitigations, and adaptations for cultural resource...