This program utilizes qualified nonprofit youth and veteranserving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education…

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), engages the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE), a non-profit organization, to facilitate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service projects on Department of the Interior lands.

Under this $137,488.80 award, NCPE will place student interns and fellows at various National Park Service divisions to work on a range of cultural resources projects, including anthropology, archaeology, cultural landscapes, historic structures, history (including oral history), museums, and historic preservation. The interns and fellows will also assist with associated data entry into NPS databases. This award, with an initial term from January 2025 to December 2026, will provide hands-on training and professional development opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in natural and cultural resource management fields.

This program utilizes qualified nonprofit youth and veteranserving 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.interns and fellows will work with ncro divisions on various cultural resources projects in the fields of anthropology, archeology, cultural landscapes, historic structures, history INC. Oral history, museums, or historic preservation, and associated data entry into NPS databases.beneficiaries include private nonprofit institutions and organizations public and private nonprofit academic institutions state and local government agencies quasipublic nonprofit 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 benefitfrom the development and execution of these programs and projects.