Environmental Outreach and Conservation - North Cascades

The Department of the Interior National Park Service awards Cooperative Agreements under CFDA 15.942 to fund field-based environmental outreach, public education, youth engagement, and conservation programming centered on natural and cultural history, most recently on July 31, 2012.

This program is inactive for practical pursuit. The portfolio contains only two Cooperative Agreements awarded in 2011 and 2012, with no grant awards in the past fourteen years. The National Park Service has not posted a solicitation under this Assistance Listing since 2015. The program's two recorded awards generated a net federal obligation of negative $18,601 due to a deobligation adjustment in 2011 that exceeded the substantive award; the 2012 Yosemite Visitor Trail Use Study was funded at $7,734.

The most recent opportunity posted under this listing was a Notice of Intent in February 2015 (due April 13, 2015) to fund the North Cascades Institute for environmental education and conservation programming at North Cascades National Park Complex. That opportunity explicitly stated non-competitive funding of a single established partner with a 29-year track record, rather than a competitive solicitation open to all eligible applicants. The 2018 opportunity referenced in the portfolio—for an Integrated Pest Management Plan at Flagstaff Area National Monuments—appears to have been posted under a different solicitation mechanism (P18AS00305) and targets 501(c)(3) nonprofits, but falls within Department of the Interior natural resources funding categories and may relate to park conservation work.

Cooperative Agreements with 501(c)(3) nonprofits remain the stated vehicle. However, the fourteen-year funding gap, absence of current competitive solicitations, and program's apparent transition toward direct partnerships with established park educational institutions rather than open competition suggest this listing is not currently accepting new applications. Verification with the National Park Service regarding current program status and any planned reopening would be necessary before pursuing.