Creating Opportunities for Relevant Experience (CORE) Wildland Fire Training Crews
Open Posted
- Opportunity number
- P25AS00012
- Agency
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National Park Service
Department of the Interior
- Applications due
- Award size
- $20,000 to $200,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Employment, Labor and Training
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
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About this opportunity
The Creating Opportunities for Relevant Experience (CORE) Wildland Fire Training Crews is a federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service. The agency is seeking applications from non-profit organizations, state governments, and federally recognized tribal governments to establish wildland fire training crews comprised of women, veterans, and youth. The goal of the CORE Crews program is to provide participants with job experience, training, and mentoring in wildland fire management and natural resource operations to support the NPS's wildland fire program. Eligible activities include fuels reduction, fire effects monitoring, fire preparedness, and potentially wildfire suppression. Applications are due by May 21, 2029.
Awards under this grant opportunity are anticipated to range from $20,000 to $200,000 per task agreement. A 25% cost match is required for projects funded under the Public Land Corps authority. The program is funded under the National Wildland Fire Management and Natural Resource Training and Workforce Development grant (CFDA 15.969).
Synopsis
The Creating Opportunities for Relevant Experience Crews (CORE Crews) are wildland fire training crews comprised of women, veterans, or youth. CORE crews offer participants job experience and wildland fire specific training that serves as a developmental opportunity for participants and an opportunity for parks build relationships with the next generation of fire managers. The CORE crews' goal is to engage with women, veterans, and youth to begin development of the next generation of the wildland firefighters, managers and scientists contributing to the mission of the NPS wildland fire program by offering relevant work experience.
The CORE Crew program seeks to offer basic training, knowledge and experience that will inspire interest in future career opportunities for participants while working to support the NPS wildland fire mission. CORE crewmembers will work with trained professional fire staff with the NPS and gain on-the-job skills and experience. They will also be coached and mentored in wildland fire and NPS operations. Job experience will vary and include a wide array of activities such as work on fuels management projects, wildfire preparedness activities, fire effects monitoring, and potentially wildfire suppression. Training will cover numerous topics including employee and agency orientation, basic firefighter training, chainsaw training, and incident management and response overview.
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